Bassett Family Association Database
Gilbert Bassett, of Little Rissington[1]
1108 - 1158 (50 years)-
Name Gilbert Bassett Suffix of Little Rissington Born 1108 Wallingford, Berkshire, England [2, 3, 4] Gender Male Died 1158 Headington, Oxfordshire [5] Notes - Glbert Basset, of Little Rissington, Gloucester, ancestor of the Bassets of Little Rissington
Burke 1825
" a younger son of the justiciary, and himself one of the justices of England (22 Henry III.), did marry Alice, daughter of Robert de Dunstanville, by whom he had three sons, Gilbert, Thomas, and Alan: Gilbert, the eldest, was founder of Bicester priory, in Oxfordshire, and to him King Henry II. confirmed the manors of Shalefeld and Aldeford, in Surrey, as having been the marriage-portion of his mother Alice Dunstanville (fn. 4) ; the sole heiress of this Gilbert married Verdun, and afterwards Camville, and the sole heiress of Camville, William de Longespee, Earl of Salisbury. Thomas, the second son of Thomas Basset, and Alice, above-mentioned, inherited part of the barony of Namptwich in Cheshire, and left three daughters coheiresses; Sir Alan, the third son, possessed Compton in Oxfordshire, by the gift, as some say, of his uncle, Walter de Dunstanville, or, according to Dugdale, of his elder brother Gilbert (fn. 5) , to whom it had been given by the said Walter. This Sir Alan, who died 17 Henry III., had a son and heir, Gilbert, who was ancestor of the Bassets of Wycombe, Bucks, (a baronial family,) whose sole heiress married Roger de Bigod, Earl of Norfolk."
Person ID I2972 33B Bassetts of Blore, Hints, Staffordshire & Warwickshire Last Modified 1 Sep 2008
Father Sir Ralph Bassett, of Colston, b. 1076, Normandy, France or Drayton, Staffordshire , d. 1120, Northampton (Age 44 years) Mother Agatha de Bruce, b. 1079, Cleveland, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married 1107 Family ID F991 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edith d'Ouilly, b. Abt 1102, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England , d. Aft 1165, Wallingford, Oxfordshire (Age ~ 64 years) Married 1137 Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England [6] Children 1. Isabel Bassett, b. Abt 1122, Wallingford, Oxfordshire , d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Thomas Bassett, of Headington, b. 1129, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England , d. 1182, Headington, Oxfordshire (Age 53 years) Family ID F995 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Glbert Basset, of Little Rissington, Gloucester, ancestor of the Bassets of Little Rissington
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Sources - [S1] GEDCOM file imported on 4 May 2009.
- [S25] Jim Weber (Reliability: 2).
- [S27] circularpaths (Reliability: 2).
- [S59] The Battle Abbey Roll-Duches of Cleveland (Reliability: 2).
He left five sons ; Richard ; Thurstin, of
Colston-Basset, Notts, by some called the eldest; Thomas, ancestor of the
Bassets of Haddington; Nicholas, who in 1147 founded Bruern Abbey in
Oxfordshire ; and Gilbert. - [S28] Rosie Bevan (Reliability: 2).
- [S67] The Topographer and Geanealogist.John Gough Nichols.1846 (Reliability: 2).
- [S1] GEDCOM file imported on 4 May 2009.