Sir Adam Fitz William Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³³⁸
Sir Adam Fitz William, of Hatfield, Radwell, was, as his father before him, a liberal benefactor to St. Alban's monastery. He married Joane, daughter and heir of William Bassingbourne, of Hatfield and dying in 1238, left an only son, Sir Simon Fitz Adam.

Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II, p. 1468

Adam married Joan de Bassingbourne, daughter of William de Bassingbourne and Unknown.¹³³⁸ (Joan de Bassingbourne was born in Hatfield.)