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Berwick Bassett
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Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles southwest of Swindon. The village is on the west bank of a headstream of t
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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
Berwick Bassett
…recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was probably part of the king's Calne estate. The Bassett suffix arose after the manor was granted in 1206 to Alan Basset. He was succeeded by three of his sons in turn: Gilbert, Fulk (who went on to become Bishop of London), and Philip (Chief Justiciar). The Wiltshire…
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 r
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")