• General Notes

  
  
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  Edith D'Oyly, who was married, in 1137, to Gilbert de Bassett of Bicester,[95] in Oxfordshire, who bore for arms "Barry undée of six, or and gules,"[96] and was a younger son (or grandson through his second son Thomas) of Ralph Bassett, the celebrated Justice of England under Henry I., originator of the law of frank-pledge. Gilbert Bassett obtained in frank-marriage with Edith D'Oyly, Stratton, co. Oxon., and Letcumbe, co. Berks (both part of her great uncle Robert D'Oyly's domains at the Doomsday Survey), and gave the latter the name of Letcumbe-Basset,[97] which it has ever since retained. He held seven knights' fees of the honour of Walingford, in 12th Hen. II. (1166-7), and dying about that year, left by his said wife a son and heir,
  1. Thomas de Bassett, a nobleman of great civil and military talent, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 10 Hen. II. (1163-4), who occasionally presided in the King's courts of judicature, and travelled as a Justice Itinerant through many counties; and, as a reward for his special services in war, received a grant of the lordship of Heddington, co. Oxon. he was progenitor of the Bassetts of Heddington and Wycombe,[98] (the latter of whom differenced the family arms to "Barry of six, undée argent and azure"); and from him the D'Oylys' estate of Stratton passed at last by inheritance to the Camvilles, whence it descended (by blood) to Longspée; and thence by marriage it came to the Audleys, who gave it the name of "Stratton-Audley," which it has ever since retained.[99]

Details of Edith's family with Gilbert de Basset