Thomas Basset (died ) was a 12th-century English

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Life

Basset was the son of Gilbert Basset (presumably a son of

Ralph Basset Ralph Basset (sometimes Bassett; died c. 1127) was a medieval English royal justice during the reign of King Henry I of England. He was a native of Normandy, and may have come to Henry's notice while Henry held land in Normandy prior to becomin ...

, the justiciar). He received a grant of the lordship of Hedendon, Oxfordshire, for services in war, and served as

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from 1163 to 1164. In 1167–8 he was an itinerant justice for Essex and Hertfordshire, and in 1169 he became a

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, a post he held to c. 1181. In 1175 he was again an itinerant justice and in close attendance on the court, as he continued to be until 1181. Basset was specially named as a justice itinerant on one of the new circuits on 10 April 1179. He married

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and their children were Gilbert,

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and

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and Alice who married William Malet. He is last mentioned in August 1181, and at the close of 1182 he had been succeeded by his son Gilbert.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Basset, Thomas Year of birth missing 1182 deaths 12th-century English judges Holders of the Honour of Wallingford High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire