Thomas Basset

- Abt 1182

• Name	Thomas Basset
  Birth	of Headington, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1182  [2, 3, 4]
  Alternate death	1185  [5]
  Person ID	I3291	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Gilbert Basset,   b. of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England d. 1154
  Mother	Edith d'Oilly
  Family ID	F4795	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice de Dunstanville,   b. of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England d. Aft 1181
  Children	+ 1. Isabel Basset,   b. of Headington, Oxfordshire, England + 2. Gilbert Basset,   b. of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England d. 1205 + 3. Alan Basset,   b. of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England d. Bef 2 Nov 1232 + 4. Thomas Basset,   b. of Headington, Oxfordshire, England d. Bef 1 May 1220
  Family ID	F227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  "Basset, Thomas (d. c. 1182), justice, belonged to a distinguished family of royal servants which began with Ralph Basset (d. 1127?), the brother of Thomas's father, Gilbert (d. in or before 1154). Thomas Basset had entered Henry II's service by 1163. His first known post in the royal administration was as sheriff of Oxfordshire (1163 - 4). A baron of the exchequer from 1169 to c. 1181, he was an itinerant justice in the south and west in 1175, and again in 1179; in December 1180 he joined the justiciar Ranulf de Glanville and other royal justices at Lincoln in approving a final concord. He was custodian of the honour of Wallingford for the king from 1172 to 1179. He witnessed royal documents in England fourteen times between 1174 and 1179, and he was with the king in Normandy, c. 1181, attesting at Barfleur. He died shortly afterwards, perhaps in 1182." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2161] Rosie Bevan, 4 Jun 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S1213] Kay Allen, 22 Feb 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S3292] William John Stewart-Parker, The Bassets of High Wycombe: Politics, Lordship, Locality and Culture in the Thirteenth Century. Ph.D. thesis, King's College, London, 2013. [S550] John P. Ravilious, 22 Dec 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.