♂Andrew Basset

Andrew Basset was a fourteenth-century Englishman of Tickenham, in Somerset, remembered as the father of an heiress. He was the twentieth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Joan Basset.

Andrew’s daughter Joan was his heiress. She is said to have been the first wife of Sir Edmund Seymour of Chelvey, Migill and Tickenham, in Somerset, and of Welham, in Leicestershire, and the mother of his son and heir apparent, Thomas. Thomas died before 1422, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, born about 1406, and Tickenham passed on through her: Elizabeth’s husband, Thomas Berkeley, held it in her right. The records give no dates for Andrew and do not name his wife.

Notes

Sources

Andrew is named only in Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, p. 175, a compiled genealogy, in the entry for his grandson’s wife, Margaret Farway, which calls Thomas Seymour the son of Sir Edmund Seymour “by his 1st wife, Joan, daughter and heiress of Andrew Basset, of Tickenham, Somerset.” Richardson gives Andrew no entry of his own. The same page gives Thomas’s daughter Elizabeth, born about 1406, and her husband Thomas Berkeley, “in right of his wife, of Tickenham.”

His century

No record dates Andrew himself. He is placed in the fourteenth century because his great-granddaughter Elizabeth Seymour was born about 1406.

Which wife was Thomas’s mother

Foundations 2(6) (2008), pp. 390–422, makes Thomas the son of Sir Edmund’s second wife, also named Joan. Richardson states that this is an error and gives his mother as the first wife, Joan Basset, Andrew’s daughter.