Henry Biset

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).