Thomas Basset

- Bef 1220

• Name	Thomas Basset
  Born	of Headington, Oxfordshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 1 May 1220  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Siblings	3 siblings
  + 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
  Person ID	I6368	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas Basset,   b. of Headington, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. Abt 1182
  Mother	Alice de Dunstanville,   b. of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. Aft 1181
  Family ID	F227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Philippe Malbank
  Children	+ 1. Alice Basset,   d. Abt 1263
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2015
  Family ID	F3636	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Named in Magna Carta as an advisor to King John. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "First recorded before c. 1180, the younger Thomas Basset had by 1190 been granted custody of land in Oxfordshire through the favour of Richard I, and over the next few years he was maintained in royal service, briefly holding land in Hereford and Shropshire. As a counsellor of the king's brother John, count of Mortain, in 1191 he was excommunicated by the chancellor, William de Longchamp (d. 1197), John's rival for the government of England during the absence of King Richard on crusade. In 1192 Basset served briefly as John's deputy keeper for the Berkshire manors of Cookham and Bray. However, he seems to have held aloof from John's rebellion against King Richard, and therefore retained his place at court. [...] "Under King John, before 1202 Basset served as constable of Dover, and between 1202 and 1214 as sheriff and constable of Oxford, an office previously held by his father and his elder brother, Gilbert Basset. [...] He served on the king's expedition to Ireland in 1210, and during the civil war of 1215–17 remained loyal to the king, taking custody of Warwick Castle and of the estates of several rebel knights. Roger of Wendover names him as one of John's evil counsellors, and his prominence as a royal familiaris is underlined by his having been one of the men on whose advice Magna Carta was said to have been granted. In May 1217 he fought on the royalist side at the battle of Lincoln."

  
  

• Sources

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