♀Isabel Maudlyn

Isabel Maudlyn was the first wife of Robert Basset, of Uley and of Upton Cheyney, near Bitton, in Gloucestershire, England. She was the fourteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son William Basset.

Isabel was a daughter of a man named Maudlyn whose first name is not known. Their son William was Robert’s son and heir. When the heralds recorded the family at the Visitation of Gloucestershire^W of 1623, they entered him as “William Bassett of Yewley sonne and heire.” Robert later married again; the name of his second wife is not known.

Notes

Sources

Isabel’s marriage, her father’s surname and her son are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, p. 176, which calls William the “son and heir of Robert Basset, of Uley and Upton Cheyney, Gloucestershire, by his 1st wife, Isabel, daughter of Maudlyn.” Richardson cites the Basset pedigree in Ellacombe’s History of Bitton (1881), John Smyth’s Lives of the Berkeleys and the 1623 Visitation of Gloucestershire (Harleian Society vol. 21, pp. 204–207).

Dates

Richardson gives no dates for Isabel or for Robert. Their son William married a daughter of John Ashe, who died in 1540 while his own son was still under age, and William’s son Edward made his will in 1601.

William’s mother

Richardson names William’s mother as Isabel, daughter of Maudlyn, the first wife of Robert Basset. An online family tree names her Ann Spencer instead.

The name

Richardson leaves the first name of Isabel’s father blank and says nothing more of her family. The 1623 Visitation spells her husband’s name Bassett and calls the place Yewley.