Bassett Family Association Database

Gilbert Bassett, of Little Rissington[1]

Male 1108 - 1158  (50 years)


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  • Name Gilbert Bassett 
    Suffix of Little Rissington 
    Born 1108  Wallingford, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Died 1158  Headington, Oxfordshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1120, Northampton Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years) 
    Mother Agatha de Bruce,   b. 1079, Cleveland, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1107 
    Family ID F991  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Edith d'Ouilly,   b. Abt 1102, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1165, Wallingford, Oxfordshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Married 1137  Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Children 
     1. Isabel Bassett,   b. Abt 1122, Wallingford, Oxfordshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Thomas Bassett, of Headington,   b. 1129, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1182, Headington, Oxfordshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)
    Family ID F995  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1] GEDCOM file imported on 4 May 2009.

    2. [S25] Jim Weber (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S27] circularpaths (Reliability: 2).

    4. [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.

    5. [S28] Rosie Bevan (Reliability: 2).

    6. [S67] The Topographer and Geanealogist.John Gough Nichols.1846 (Reliability: 2).