Dear List
It seems a good idea to add the sourcing from Clarence-Smith's footnotes:
1. For the death 1210, he cites the Pipe Rolls, PRS 26 NS, p.35
2. For the information at the death of Philip Basset, IPM 56 H3,
Calendar I, No. 807, p.273
Going beyond the quotation I already passed, Clarence-Smith points out
that Heloise may have been named after her grandmother, and that the IPM
shows she pre-deceased Philip. In a footnote he also mentions that there
is a charter by the Prioress of Wix to the lord Philip Basset and
Helewisia his wife (New Monastican IV, p.515, IV). In the context of the
running article I read this as more evidence of the link to Ralph de
Hastings.
Relevant to my post here there is then a long footnote about other
theories, which I should now quote in full:
"G. W. Watson in the article on Despenser in the Complete Peerage, IV,
p.261, says that Sir Hugh Despenser married "Aline, da. & h. of Sir
Philip Basset of Wycombe, Bucks.... by his first wife Wawise, da. of Sir
Matthew de Lonavine of Little Easton, Essex," to which is appended a
footnote: "She had, in free marriage, the manor of Wix, Essex, by the
service of 20s. a year. Some genealogists say that she was da. of John
de Grey of Eaton, Bucks." Her fathering on Sir Matthew de Lovaine has no
other support than the quite unwarranted assumption that she held Wix in
free marriage: in fact she held it by inheritance as the Inquisition
specifies, and Sir Matthew was her overlord but not her father."
So having noticed this footnote, I suppose this is also a discussion
about a potential correction to CP. (I had not noticed this footnote
when writing my original post.)
Best Regards
Andrew
On 4/06/2016 14:24, Andrew Lancaster wrote:
>
> Clarence-Smith then said that: "He was dead by Michaelmas 1210,
> leaving a daughter under age whose custody and marriage had been
> granted to Alan Bassett for 100 marks. It is not therefore surprising
> to find at the death of Sir Philip Basset of Wycombe, younger son of
> this Alan, in 1271, that he held under Sir Matthew de Lovaine the
> manor of Wix 'by courtesy of England of the inheritance of Helewisia
> his wife'."
>