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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: GILBERT BASSET & EDITH d'OILLI
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:10:39 -0500


Grant Menzies wrote:
>
> I have noted for some time a descent given in Roderick Stuart's
> "Royalty for Commoners" (lines 82 and 395), connecting the Dammartins
> with the Basset and d'Oilli families of England, to wit:
>
> 1. Gilbert Basset of Wellingford, Oxford, fl.1165; m. ... Edith
> d'Oilli, of Hook Norton (dau. of Robert II d'Oilli and Edith fitz
> Forne, formerly a mistress of King Henry I of England);
>
> 2. Joan Basset ("prob. mother of [Aubrey II de Dammartin"]); m. (as
> her 3rd husband) ... Alberic (Aubrey) I comte de Dammartin, 1125-1129
>
> 3. Aubrey II comte de Dammartin; m. ... Mathilde de Ponthieu
>

> ... and so forth. Stuart gives as sources for this Basset/d'Oilli
> connection (lines 395 and 396) "Evans, Sanders, Turton and
> Washington". Turton I enjoy as much as I do any well crafted fiction
> ;-) What of these others? Is there any evidence for this Basset
> connection with the counts of Dammartin?
>

The source you want to try here is Evans. He discusses the early
Dammartin lineage, and includes the evidence for this marriage of Aubrey
I to a Basset, but since Evans was significantly adrift regarding the
early Dammartins, which would affect the chronological basis for any
such conclusion, one needs to take his comment that Joan Basset was
probably mother of his son (if Evans even said this) with a grain of
salt.

ta

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