Bishop Fulk Basset 1189-1259

Around 1189 Fulk Basset was born to Alan Basset [aged 34] and Aline Fitzrobert. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1223 Fulk Basset [aged 34] was granted the church living of Howden, Yorkshire [Map].

In or before 1227 Fulk Basset [aged 37] was provost of Beverley Minster [Map].

Around 1232 [his father] Alan Basset [aged 77] died at Headington, Oxfordshire.

In or before 1239 Fulk Basset [aged 49] was appointed Dean of York.

In 1241 Bishop Fulk Basset [aged 52] was elected Bishop of London; an election confirmed by King Henry III of England [aged 33] in January 1242.

In 1244 Bishop Fulk Basset [aged 55] was one of the escort of the King of Scotland for a meeting with King Henry III of England [aged 36] at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

On 9th October 1244 Bishop Fulk Basset [aged 55] was consecrated Bishop of London with King Henry III of England [aged 37] making a sizeable contribution to his consecration feast. The delay in his consecration was due to a vacancy in the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury

Letters. 1258. Letter XIII. Matilda Prioress of the Convent of Barking to Henry III [aged 50].

To her most excellent lord Henry, by God's grace illustrious king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and earl of Anjou, Matilda, humble prioress of Barking, and of the convent of the same place, wishes health, with due reverence and honour, and the suflFrages of her prayers.

Since the lady our mother, venerable for her religion, the lady Christina, late abbess of our house, did on the Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, in the forty-third year of your reign, of her own good and spontaneous will, yield up the government of the said abbey, on account of the infirmity and debility of her body, and was absolved from it by our venerable father Foulk, bishop of London [aged 69], we now, being destitute of the solace of an abbess, send to you our beloved sisters and fellow-nuns, Roesia de Argentes, Joanna de Wantham, and Agnes Costentin, humbly and de voutly supplicating that the bowels of your compassion may be moved towards us, and that the condescension of your mercy will grant us permission to elect some other as our abbess, so that henceforth you may receive from the highest retributor a worthy reward, and we may be henceforth obligated more specially to ofier up the merited suflfrages of our prayers for you and yours. Given at Barking [Map] the Tuesday after the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, in the forty-third year of your reign.

On 21st May 1259 Bishop Fulk Basset [aged 70] died of plague. On 25th May 1259 he was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].

[his father] Alan Basset and [his mother] Aline Fitzrobert were married.