Alan Basset

- Bef 1232

• Name	Alan Basset  [1]
  Birth	of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1231  [5]
  Alternate death	1232  [4]
  Death	Bef 2 Nov 1232  [3, 6]
  Alternate death	Abt 1233  [7, 8]
  Siblings	3 siblings
  1. Isabel Basset ,   b. of Headington, Oxfordshire, England ▻ Guy II de Craon   2. Gilbert Basset ,   b. of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England d. 1205 ▻ Egeline de Courtenay   3. Alan Basset ,   b. of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England d. Bef 2 Nov 1232 ▻ Aline de Gay   4. Thomas Basset ,   b. of Headington, Oxfordshire, England d. Bef 1 May 1220 ▻ Philippe Malbank
  Person ID	I6694	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Aug 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	Aline de Gay,   b. of Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England d. 1230
  Children	1. Philip Basset,   b. Abt 1185, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England d. 29 Oct 1271 (Age ~ 86 years)   2. Katherine Basset   d. Aft 6 Jul 1267   3. Aline Basset
  Family ID	F3178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "Basset, Alan (d. 1232), administrator, was one of the three sons (probably the youngest) of Thomas Basset (d. c. 1182). He founded the Bassets of Wycombe, and was a noted servant of Richard I, John, and Henry III. In 1197 Richard I sent him on a diplomatic mission with William (I) Marshal to the counts of Flanders and Boulogne to detach them from their allegiance to King Philip of France, and shortly afterwards, with his elder brother Thomas, he attested as surety for Richard in France concerning the king's treaty with the count of Flanders against Philip. Between 1197 and 1199 he witnessed six more of Richard's documents in France. Following Richard's death, he was soon in attendance upon John; Alan, Thomas, and Gilbert Basset were all described as barons when they witnessed the homage of the king of Scots to John at Lincoln on 22 November 1200. In 1202 and 1203 Alan witnessed ten of John's charters in France, and, between 1200 and 1215, twenty-five royal charters in England. Remaining loyal to John, he is often recorded in that king's service, and received such rewards as numerous quittances of scutage. In 1215 he was named in Magna Carta as one of the 'noblemen' whose counsel the king relied upon, and he was among the royalist barons who attended John at Runnymede. He appears to have accompanied John on his expedition to the north of England in the winter of 1215 - 16. He was in Henry III's service by 14 December 1216. In 1217 he fought at the battle of Lincoln, and helped to pacify the kingdom afterwards, and in 1220 he was one of three ambassadors sent to France to arrange a four-year truce. He was still in royal service in 1228, but died late in 1232." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

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