♂Robert Basset

Robert Basset was of Uley and of Upton Cheyney, near Bitton, in Gloucestershire, England. He was the fourteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son William Basset.

Robert’s first wife was Isabel Maudlyn, 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

Robert’s places, his first marriage and his 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 Robert or for Isabel. 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 second marriage

Richardson’s “1st wife” means that Robert married more than once. He does not name the second wife or say whether she had children.

The name

Richardson spells the family name Basset and leaves the first name of Isabel’s father blank. The 1623 Visitation writes the name Bassett and calls the place Yewley.