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Personal data THOMAS BASSETT 

• He was born in the year 1125 in Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire.
• Title: Sheriff of Oxford
• He died in the year 1182 in Wellingford, Oxfordshire, he was 57 years old.
• A child of GILBERT BASSETT and EDITH d'OILLY

Household of THOMAS BASSETT

He is married to ALICE DUNSTANVILLE.

They got married in the year 1155 at Wellingford, Oxfordshire, he was 30 years old.

Child(ren):

1. GILBERT BASSETT  1158-1207 
2. ALAN BASSETT  1162-1233 
3. THOMAS BASSETT  1160-1220 
4. ISABEL BASSETT  1156-???? 

Notes about THOMAS BASSETT

Thomas Basset (died c. 1182) was a 12th-century English judge.

Basset was the son of Gilbert Basset (the brother of Ralph Basset, the justiciar). He received a grant of the lordship of Hedendon, Oxfordshire, for services in war, and served as Sheriff of Oxfordshire from 1163-4. In 1167-8 he was an itinerant justice for Essex and Hertfordshire, and in 1169 he became a baron of the exchequer, 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 is last mentioned in August 1181, and at the close of 1182 he had been succeeded by his son Gilbert.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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