Alan Basset (died 1232 or 1233) was an English baron.
Basset was a younger son of
Adeliza
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and
Thomas Basset of
Headington
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, Oxfordshire. In like favour with
Richard I
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and with
John
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, he received from the former the lordships of
Woking
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and
Mapledurwell
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History
Recorded in the Domesday Book, the land was held by Anschill for Edward the Confessor. From 1086, ...
(in Surrey and Hampshire), and from the latter those of
Wycombe and
Berewick (in Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire).
With his brothers Gilbert and
Thomas
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he accompanied John to Northampton, when the king of Scots did his homage (22 November 1200), which he tested, and continued throughout John's reign in close attendance on the court, accompanying the king to Ireland in 1210 and to Runnymede (15 June 1215), his name, with that of
his brother Thomas, appearing in
Magna Carta
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among those of the king's counsellors.
At the accession of
Henry III he was one of the witnesses to his re-issue of the charter (11 November 1216), and on the royalist reaction his loyalty was rewarded by his being occasionally employed in the Curia Regis and sent to France on a political mission in 1219–20. He also acted as
sheriff of Rutland
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from 1217 to 1229. Dying in 1232–3, he left three sons:
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, his heir;
Fulk, afterwards bishop of London; and
Philip
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, afterwards
Justiciar
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of England.
References
Year of birth missing
1230s deaths
13th-century English people
People from Oxfordshire
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Feudal barons of Wycombe
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