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- Reputed father or grandfather of Thurstan Bassett d 1080
In preparing this tree I have not included all the earlier ancestors claimed by many genealogists because sources differ so much in their information. However it seems clear that this line of Bassets came from Normandy and Osmond Bassett is thought to have descended from Bathet or Baset,who acquired Oiully-Basset (now Oiully-le-Basset) and Normanville in 912. Pat Newton
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"They all agreed that each of them should give himself with all his substance to St Evroul on his death,and that none of them would give or sell any church or tithe or other ecclesiastical property without first offering it for sale to the Monks. Many of their vassals,including Fulcuin the priest and Osmund Basset,Lupetius and Fulk sons of Fredelende,Odo Rufus and Richard son of Gulbert,Robert de Torp,and Giroie de Logis readily gave their consent to this."
This referred to the 1051- the first year after the restoration of the abbey of St Evroul,Normandy
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Source The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis By Ordericus Vitalis, trans Marjorie Chibnall
Note 1- Ordericus Vitalis spents many years at the Abbey of St Evroul and afterwards researched and wrote its history.
Note 2- The extract shows that Osmond Basset was a vassal (defined as a free man who held land (fief) from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty. He owed various services and obligations, primarily military
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