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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Biset
Date: 31 Mar 1999 09:32:46 GMT


I have a different account of the Biset/Bisset family than what Doug posted.
But the one source I have not been able to check that I have wanted to look at
is:

_The Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey_, I-II edited by Charles Derek Ross (1964),
III ed. by M. Devine.

Does anyone have access to this work that can tell me what information 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 England, was a
baron of Stephen, Count of Aumale (ca. 1090-1127) [this Stephen was son and
heir of Adelaide, Countess of Aumale (sister of William the Conqueror), by her
third husband, Eudes, Count of Champagne], and lord of Holderness, Yorkshire.

William Biset and his wife, HAWISE were parents of at leaast four children:

1. William "Carpentarius" of East Bridgford, Nottingham, who married Susanna
___ and had a son and heir named Henry (d. by 1212).
2. Manasser Biset, steward to Henry II by 1153, d. 1177, had lands in Notts.,
Worcs., ,Wilts., and Hants. [but no evidence of Yorkshire lands]. By his wife,
Alice, he also had a son and heir named Henry Biset, who came of aage 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, but I'd like to
see what the Cartulary of Cirencester says before I make a detailed post.

Anyone have access?

pcr

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