Events
Date of Birth: about 1166.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Keats-Rohan (p. 177) states that Henry came of age in 1187.
Date of Death: shortly before Michaelmas,1208.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Douglas Richardson in a post to soc.genealogy.medieval, citing (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 23 (1947): 116, 170, 197-189.)
Relationships
Father: Manasser Biset, steward to Henry II.
This relationship is given by the Worcestershire VCH (3:sub Kidderminster),the Wiltshire VCH (3: sub The Priory of Maiden Bradley), and the Complete Peerage (11:296 fn). It is recorded in 1233 in a pedigree from the plea rolls (Wrottesley p. 481). Manasser died in or shortly before 1186.
Mother: Alice, sister and heiress of Gilbert de Falaise, seigneur of Cany.
The Wiltshire VCH (3: sub The Priory of Maiden Bradley) gives Henry’s wife as Alice. She is identified as the sister of Gilbert de Falaise by Keats-Rohan (p. 177).
Spouse: unknown.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (11:296 fn).
Spouse: Iseult Pantulf.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (11:296 fn).
Children (by his first wife):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Margaret Biset married Roger la Zouche.
Children (by Iseult):
William Biset married Sarah.
John Biset.
References
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (Victoria County History, 1956).
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (Victoria County History, 1908).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday Descendants: a Prosopography of Persons Occuring in English Documents 1066-1166 II: Pipe Rolls to ‘Cartae Baronum’. (2002).
Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancesty. (2011).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls. (1905).