Gilbert Basset

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• Alternate death: Bef 1155
• Alternate death: 1166

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In its article about the justice Thomas Basset, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his father Gilbert as brother to the justice Ralph Basset who died about 1127.

Family/Spouse: Edith d'Oilly. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1185

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"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]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Dunstanville. Alice (daughter of Alan de Dunstanville) was born in of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England; died after 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guy II de Craon. Guy (son of Maurice de Craon and Clarice) was born in of Frieston, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1205

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Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1200-1.

Family/Spouse: Egeline de Courtenay. Egeline (daughter of Reynold de Courtenay and (Unknown first wife of Reynold de Courtenay)) died in 1214. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1231
• Alternate death: 1232
• Alternate death: Abt 1233

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"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]

Family/Spouse: Aline de Gay. Aline (daughter of Philip de Gay and Cecily) was born in of Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England; died in 1230. [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."

Family/Spouse: Philippe Malbank. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 28 Mar 1262

Pernel married Oliver de Vaux after 1210. Oliver (son of Robert de Vaux) was born in of Pentney, Norfolk, England; died between 1235 and 1244. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1216

Eustache married Richard de Camville in 1200. Richard (son of Gerard de Camville and Nichole de la Haye) was born in of Avington, Berkshire, England; died in Mar 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married John Lovel before Aug 1216. John (son of William Lovel and Isabel) was born in of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, England; died before 23 Dec 1252. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aliva Basset.

Family/Spouse: Richard Talbot. Richard (son of Gilbert Talbot) was born about 1180 in of Eccleswall, Gloucestershire, England; died before 13 Apr 1234. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Justiciar of England 1261; one of the deputation of the Barons to the Council of Lyons 1245; Constable of the castles of Oxford, Bristol, Corfe, and Sherburne; Sheriff of four counties; made prisoner with 'tuenti wounde' at Lewes, 1264, and imprisoned by De Montfort at Dover Castle, but was liberated after the battle of Evesham, 1265; was one of the arbitrators by which the 'dictum de Kenilworth' was drawn up; a member of the King's Council 1270; d. 'Bonae Memoriae' 1271." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.]

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has him as the son of a wife of Thomas Basset preceding Aline de Gai; they name this wife "Alice de Gray," but they also note that "the similarity of [the names Alice de Gray and Aline de Gai] is such that the possibility that Alan had only one wife cannot be excluded."

Family/Spouse: Hawise de Hastings. Hawise (daughter of Ralph de Hastings) was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1248

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Also called Aliva.

Family/Spouse: William II Malet. William (son of Gilbert Malet and Alice Picot) was born before 1174 in of Curry Mallet, Langport, Somerset, England; died about 1216. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John Biset before 1223. John (son of Henry Biset and (Unknown first wife of Henry Biset)) was born in of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England; died in 1241; was buried in Maiden Bradley Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]