Thurstan De Bassett Grand Falconer to William The Conqueror

• Preferred Name: Thurstan De Bassett Grand Falconer to William The Conqueror^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Thurstan De Bassett Grand Falconer to William The Conqueror
  
• Gender: M
  
• LdsEndowment: 31 DEC 1935 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: M7L3-XZJ
  
• LdsBaptism: 4 SEP 1935 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• AFN: with note: Description: VB2C-55
  
• Birth: 30 OCT 1050 in Thurleigh, Ouillt-Basset, Normandy, France at LATI: N9.06 LONG: E0.11
  
• Death: 1123 in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N2.8891 LONG: E0.9576
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir, Knight, the Norman Lord of Drayton
  
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• Residence: Newton in Makerfield is the same place Newton le Willows
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Genealogists over many years have held the mistaken belief that the progenitor of the Basset family in England was one Thurstan Basset he had many pagan beliefs he said that he were of old Valor. As early as the sixteenth century, Sampson Erdeswicke proclaimed "Turstin de Basset" as owner of five hides of land at Drayton, Staffordshire, and as father of Ralph Basset, Chief Justice of England. (Erdeswicke's thorough manuscript was not published until the nineteenth century). Erdeswicke based this claim on an entry in the Domesday Book naming "Turstin" as lord of the manor of "Draiton" in the landholdings of Staffordshire. A manor, which was known later as Drayton Bassett, became the main seat of the Lords Basset of Drayton. It was reasonable to assume that in 1086 the lord of the manor was named Thurstan Basset and that his lands descended to his son Ralph Basset, the Justiciar and his descendants. Unfortunately the entry in Domesday Book on which this supposition was made is an error. This was pointed out by the Rev. R.W. Eyton in 1881. Eyton explained in his Errata that, in compiling the fair version of the Domesday Book for Staffordshire, the details of a tenement in Oxfordshire named "Draiton" were accidentally duplicated by the scribes into the Staffordshire pages. The scribes made a further error by writing the name as "Turstin", whereas the holder of "Draitone" in Oxfordshire was "Turchil" i.e. "Thorkil of Warwick", whose lands have nothing to do with the Bassets. Erdeswicke gives credit to Ms. Charlotte Sophia Burne for pointing this out to him. The lands at Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire were held by the king at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086, not by the fictitious Thurstan Basset. Further, Drayton Bassett only came to the Basset family through the marriage of Ralph's son Richard Basset to Matilda Ridel (granddaughter of Hugh earl of Chester) in 1120x3.
  
  Biography
  Name
  Thurstine, a Norman, according to Ordericus stated that Thurstan came from an ignoble race: "From the ignoble stock he illustrated and raised it from the dust." Banks disputes Ordericus' conclusion.
  
  Thurston founded the Basset family.
  
  1066 Arrival in England
  He came to England with the Conqueror.
  
  1086 Domesday Holdings
  At the time of the 1086 Domesday Survey, Thurstan held five hides of land in Draiton, in com. Stafford. (Drayton in Staffordshire)
  
  Issue
  Ralph Basset, born, say, 1065, is the reputed son of this Thurstine. He was born in Normandy, thus given a birth year prior to the Battle of Hastings.
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  Thurstan de Basset, 'the Norman' who accompanied William the Conqueror, as his grand-falconer, to England, and whose name appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey.
  At the time of the Domesday Survey, Thurstan, 'the Norman', held five hides of land in Drayton Basset, in the County of Staffordshire and was the paternal ancestor of the several families of the name Basset in England.
  
  Thurstan Basset (1050-1128)
  «b»Basset Family«/b»
  The Basset family were amongst the early Norman settlers in the Kingdom of England. It is currently one of the few ancient English families that have survived through the centurie
  
  === BIOGRAPHY: Gave 500 marks for an Inquisi ===
  BIOGRAPHY: Gave 500 marks for an Inquisition to try whether the Makerfeld fee should descend to him from Robert, his father, and Guarin, his brother 14 Oct, 15 John, 1213.
  
  === The origin of the family of Bassett, is ===
  The origin of the family of Bassett, is Norman. Among the retinue of William the Conqueror, were two brothers Allan and Thirstane, or Thurstine, this last name is spelt in many other ways. Allan de Bassett, for this is the oldest from of writing the Patronymic, was a general in the Conqueror's service, and the said Thirstane was his grand Falconer. Allan Basset and his brother Thirstane, were the porgenitors of the various branches of the family of Bassett, and both names occur in some copies of the Battle Abbey Roll. Drayton Basset, now called Drayton Manor, the seat of the Right Hon Sir Robert Peel, Bart., was formerly the residence of the above mentioned Thirstane Basset. [Family of Bassett p1]
  
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  Speculative connection to Fouque de Aulney, the dates mentioned in Battle Abbey Roll would give indication that Thurston would have been grandson to Fouque instead of son.
  
  === Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees pp 15, 37 ===
  Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees pp 15, 37
  
  "Immediately after the Norman conquest," says Collins, "arose into powerand importance, more especially in the midland counties, the greatbaronial family of Basset," descended from Thurstan the Norman. [SirBernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset, of Drayton]
  
  === A baron of Normandy under William Fitz- ===
  A baron of Normandy under William Fitz-Geroi in 1050

• m. 1087 in Bassett, Hampshire, England

1. Isabella Basset, b. ABT 1176 in Clapham, Bedfordshire, England     d. 5 JAN 1224 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England
2. Ralph de Basset 1st Lord of Drayton and Colston, b. ABT 1131 in Drayton, Staffordshire, England     d. ABT 1160 in Nottinghamshire, England

• m. 1075 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England

1. Ralph Basset, b. ABT 1079 in Montreuil-au-Houlme, Normandy, France     d. ABT 1127 in Northampton, Nottinghamshire, England
2. Agatha de Buci, b. ABT 1080 in Weldon, Northamptonshire, England     d. ABT 1125 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England

1. Title: Pedigree of Basset of Sapcote
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