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Lady Alice Bisset (Basset)

Also Known As: "Mabel"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bolington, Oxfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 1263 (70-87)
Curry Mallet, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Basset, II, Lord Headington and Phillipa Basset
Wife of William Malet, Baron of Curry Mallet and Surety of the Magna Carta; H— de Chaceporc and Lord John Bisset
Mother of Mabel Malet; Helewise Malet; William Malet; Bertha Malet; Robert Malet and 5 others
Sister of Thomas Basset; Philippa Basset and Jane Prouz

Managed by: James Fred Patin, Jr.
Last Updated:

About Lady Alice Bisset

Thomas Basset, a Magna Charta Surety, 1215. He had a daughter, Alice (Mabel).

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#Alice...

iii) ALICE Basset (-[1263]). "Henry earl of Warwick…and Philippa his wife, and Reginald de Vautorte…and Joan his wife, and Alice sister of Philippa and Joan" performed homage for the lands formerly of "Thomas Basset, whose heirs are Philippa, Joan and Alice", dated 19 May 1220[296]. Bracton records a claim, dated 1223, by "Walterus de Dunstanvilla" against "Johannem Byset et Aliciam Malet uxorem eius" concerning "terre…in Culintona", the defendants claiming that "ipse Alicia" held the land "in proparte sororum unde Johanna uxor Reginaldi de Vautort et Philippa uxor Henrici comitis Warrewici"[297]. The Pipe Roll 1223 records “Johannes Biset et Alicia uxor eius” owing “de Oblatis” in Devon[298].

  • m firstly [as his second wife,] WILLIAM Malet, son of GILBERT Malet & his wife Alice (-1215).
  • m secondly (before 1221, annulled) H--- de Chaceporc, son of ---.
  • m thirdly (1223 or before) JOHN Bisset, son of MANASSER Biset & his wife Alice --- (-1241).

2. Alice (Mabel) Basset married (1) William Malet, Magna Charta Surety, 1215, descendant of William Malet, Lord Malet, general and companion of William the Conqueror, Baron of Curry, and High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. They had five children as follows:

1. Hugh Malet.

2. William Malet.

3. Mabel Malet, married Hugh de Vivonia, Baron of Chewton and steward of Poitou, who held West Kingston in 1214. They had three children: John, who d.s.p.; William de Vivonia, who married Maud Ferrers; and Helewise Vivonia, who married Walter de Wahull.

4. Hawise (Howise) Malet. See below.

5. Bertha Malet.

Alice (Mabel) Basset (Malet) married (2) John Biset.

  • Mabel Alice Basset

born about 1184 Bolington, Oxfordshire, England

died 1263 Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England

father:

  • Thomas Basset Lord Headington

born 1157 Headington, Oxfordshire, England

died 1220 Headington, Oxfordshire, England

mother:

  • Phillipa Malbank

born 1158 Heddington, Oxfordshire, England

died 1225 England

married 1177 Heddingdon, Oxfordshire, England

siblings:

  • Hawise Basset born 1182

spouse:

  • William II Baron Curry Malet

born about 1172 Enmore, Somersetshire, England

died 1217

married 1204 Somersetshire, England

children:

  • Mabel Malet born about 1195 Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England
  • Helewisia Malet born 1200 Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England died 4 May 1287

biographical and/or anecdotal:

notes or source:

LDS



https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntlo.htm#WilliamMaletdied1215

a) GILBERT Malet (-1194). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. m ALICE Picot, daughter of RALPH Picot & his wife ---. Salzman records her parentage and marriage[920]. Gilbert & his wife had one child:

i) WILLIAM Malet (-before 20 Dec 1215). iii) ALICE Basset (-[1263]). ... m firstly [as his second wife,] WILLIAM Malet, son of GILBERT Malet & his wife Alice (-1215). m secondly (before 1221, annulled) H--- de Chaceporc, son of ---. m thirdly (1223 or before) JOHN Bisset, son of MANASSER Biset & his wife Alice --- (-1241).

[m firstly ---. The dates of the first marriages of William Malet’s daughters, together with the fact that his known wife Alice Basset had three children by her third husband, suggests that William’s two daughters may have been born from an otherwise unrecorded first marriage.] m [secondly] as her first husband, ALICE Basset, daughter of THOMAS Basset [II] of Headington & his wife Philippa Malbank (-[1263]). She married secondly (before 1221, annulled) H--- de Chaceporc, and thirdly (1223 or before) John Bisset.

William & his [first] wife had two children:

(a) MABEL Malet . Her second marriage is confirmed by an order dated 18 Nov 1223 placing "in respite…the demand…from Hugh de Vivonne…for the debt that William Malet, father of the wife of Vivon, owed the king"[928]. m firstly NICHOLAS Avenell, son of --- (-[1221/22]). m secondly (before 18 Nov 1223) HUGUES de Vivonne, son of --- (-1249).

(b) HAWISE Malet . Henry III King of England made an order related to property "apud Exoniam" of "Hawisie que fuit uxor Hugonis Poinz", which she received from "Willelmi Malet patris vestri", dated 26 Aug 1220[929]. m firstly HUGH Poinz, son of --- (-before 26 Aug 1220). m secondly ROBERT de Mucegros, son of ---.

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Lady Alice Bisset's Timeline

1184
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Bolington, Oxfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1195
1195
Currey Malet, Somersetshire, England
1197
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Curry Malet, Somerset, , England
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Curry Mallet, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
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Curry Malet, Langport, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
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Headington, Oxfordshire, England