Richard Kingsmill

✓ RICHARD KINGSMILL, of DOBERTON MANOR; COLLECTOR OF THE SUBSIDY FOR SOUTH HANTS 1463; BAILIFF OF BASINGSTOKE 1464 and 1487. 'HE ENTERTAINED FOR A NIGHT, 4 NOV. 1501, CATHERINE OF ARRAGON WITH HER SUITE AT HIS HOUSE AT BASINGSTOKE, ON HER WAY TO BE MARRIED TO PRINCE ARTHUR.' d. MAY 1511, bur. in St Michael's church, Basingstoke; wife ALICE. ||VISITATION READ 7 Aug 2026 - HIS BERKSHIRE SEAT CONFIRMED|| The Hampshire visitation pedigree OPENS with him, styled 'RICHARD KINGSMILL OF BARKHAM IN COM. BERKS', independently confirming the Barkham seat that Stirnet reports from BEB1841 and BLG1952 and that Burke's LGI never mentions. So the family held a Berkshire seat as well as the Basingstoke bailiwick. Source: THE VISITATIONS OF HAMPSHIRE, 1530, 1575 and 1622-34 (Harleian Society), 'Kingsmill' pedigree at pp.2-3, from MS Harl. 1544 fo.5-7; page images read 7 Aug 2026. A HERALDS' VISITATION - primary heraldic evidence, taken from the family at the time, and a materially better authority than any nineteenth-century printed pedigree. This detail had been carried in this tree since 23 Jul 2026 as a note on William Kingsmill of Ballybeg; the man himself is now a record, and a direct ancestor. Source: Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 'KINGSMILL OF HERMITAGE PARK' p.307, PAGE IMAGE read 7 Aug 2026 (an earlier edition than the 1912 text swept by OCR on 6 Aug - note the different pagination).