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  Subject:   Biset
  Date:   31 Mar 1999 09:32:46 GMT
  From:    reedpcgen@@aol.com (Reedpcgen)
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  Newsgroups:      soc.genealogy.medieval
  
  I have a different account of the Biset/Bisset family than wha t Doug posted.  But the one source I have not been able to chec k that I have wanted to look at is:
  
  _The Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey_, I-II edited by Charles Der ek Ross (1964), III ed. by M. Devine.
  
  Does anyone have access to this work that can tell me what infor mation it gives about the Biset family?
  
  I can at least state the following is correct:
  
  1. WILIAM BISET, first documented ancestor of this family in Eng land, was a baron of Stephen, Count of Aumale (ca. 1090-1127) [t his Stephen was son and heir of Adelaide, Countess of Aumale (si ster of William the Conqueror), by her third husband, Eudes, Cou nt of Champagne], and lord of Holderness, Yorkshire.
  
  William Biset and his wife, HAWISE  were parents of at least fou r children:
  
  1. William "Carpentarius" of East Bridgford, Nottingham, who mar ried Susanna ___ and had a son and heir named Henry (d. by 1212) .
  2. Manasser Biset, steward to Henry II by 1153, d. 1177, had lan ds in Notts., Worcs., ,Wilts., and Hants. [but no evidence of Yo rkshire lands].  By his wife, Alice, he also had a son and hei r named Henry Biset, who came of age 1187 and died in 1208.
  3. Henry Biset [liv. ca. 1156-61?]
  4. Ausold Biset [liv. ca. 1156-61?]
  
  Beyond that, what I have conflicts with what Doug has posted, bu t I'd like to see what the Cartulary of Cirencester says befor e I make a detailed post.

Details of William's family with Hawise