Alan Basset
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Basset was a younger son of Adeliza and Thomas Basset of Headington, Oxfordshire. In favour with both Richard I and with John, he received from the former the lordships of Woking and Mapledurwell, and
Arms of Basset depicted by Matthew Paris (d.1259) in the Book of Additions, showing heraldic shields of King Henry III and his principal nobles (6th row, 3rd from left "Basseth", with caption above S(cu)t(um) aurum undé de Gul(es) ("A shield of or wavy of gules")
John, King of England
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John was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empir
Alan Basset
…1233) was an English baron. Basset was a younger son of Adeliza and Thomas Basset of Headington, Oxfordshire. In favour with both Richard I and with John, he received from the former the lordships of Woking and Mapledurwell (in Surrey and Hampshire), and from the latter those of Wycombe and Berewick (in…
John's parents, Henry II and Eleanor, holding court
13th-century depiction of Henry II and his legitimate children, left to right: William, Henry, Richard, Matilda, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan and John
Richard I (left) and Philip II Augustus at Acre during the Third Crusade