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Title: VCH - Northamptonshire:. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
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Page: III:76-80, see notes for Humphrey Bassingbourne, d. 1298
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: V:72 chart

The article below seems confused about some of the marriages to the Bassingbourne/Bassingburn families. It was not Alice d'Auberville, William's mother, who m. Nicholas Bassingburn; it was Alice de Lisores/Lisures, dau. of Hugh (younger brother & heir of William), who m. Nicholas. Also Humphrey de Bassingbourn, Nicholas's father, seems too young to have married Alice de Lisors/Lisures, widow of Viel/Vital de'Engaine. Humphrey may have held land at Abington for other reasons, and his holding lands nearby to the Lisures/Lisores may have led to the marriage of his son Nicholas & Alice.

The article takes the Engaine family 2 generations earlier than many other accounts, stating that Richard, father of Viel/Vital was the grandson of Richard d'Engaine the Domesday tenant of Abington.

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Manor of Abington, Northamptonshire:

Only one holder of land in ABINGTON was recorded in the Domesday Book: this was Richard Engaine who accounted for 4 hides. This estate was held of the Crown in chief for the fourth part of a knight's fee until 1509, after which date the overlordship lapsed. The manor evidently passed to Richard's grandson Richard, whose son and heir Vital married Alice de Lisors. After his death she married as her second husband Humphrey Bassingburn; the latter held the 4 hides in the reign of Henry II, in right of his wife. The estate was probably settled on Fulk, second son of Vital Engaine and Alice, who took his mother's maiden name, for in 1191 William de Lisors, Fulk's son, alienated the mill appurtenant to the manor with the consent of his mother Alice, or Adeline, d'Auberville, who confirmed the grant in the same year. William died before 1199, his brother Hugh being his heir, but Abington was settled on Isabel, William's widow, who married as her second husband Ralph Berners, with reversion probably to Alice, William's mother, who had married as her second husband Nicholas Bassingburn son of Humphrey beforementioned. Isabel Berners, a widow again by 1227, was in 1242 holding Abington of Nicholas Bassingburn, and in 1253 Humphrey Bassingburn, Nicholas's son, was in possession of the manor. Humphrey joined Simon de Montfort against Henry III, and after Evesham in 1266 his manor of Abington was forfeited to the Crown and granted to Robert de Turbeville. In 1268, however, Humphrey came to an agreement with Robert and regained possession of the manor. He afterwards became entangled in financial difficulties from which he was relieved by the Dowager Queen Eleanor, who in 1273 paid his debts to Elias son of Moses, a Jew of London, taking in exchange certain of his manors. Abington Manor, however, in the hands then of Philip de Horton, a burgess of Northampton, was delivered to Humphrey, who received from the queen 20 pounds besides. In 1277 Humphrey settled the manor on his son Humphrey and the latter's wife Mary, and, dying shortly afterwards in 1280, was succeeded by his son, who followed him to the grave in 1298. The manor then became the right of Mary his widow and was held by John de Lisle, her second husband, in 1316. After Mary's death in 1325 it passed to her son Humphrey Bassingburn, who at the date of his mother's death was in Gascony on the king's service. This Humphrey confirmed to the nuns of St. Mary Delapré in 1328 an annual pension of half a mark which had been granted to them out of the manor of Abington by William son of Fulk de Lisors and confirmed earlier by Humphrey's father. In 1330 he settled the manor on himself and his wife Alice for their lives, with reversion to Giles their eldestson and his issue and with contingent remainder to Hugh and Humphrey their younger sons. Giles died during his father's lifetime and a new settlement was made in 1344; after the death of Humphrey and Alice the manor was to pass to Alice, Giles's widow, and then to Walter son of Robert de Colevile and to Margaret his wife, daughter of Giles, in tail with contingent remainder to Robert de Colevile and his heirs, thus barring the Bassingburn line out of the entail. On Humphrey's death in 1348 Alice his widow continued to hold the manor until she died in 1357, when it passed to Alice, her daughter-in-law, then the wife of John de Fauconberg. Alice outlived not only her second husband but her daughter Margaret and the latter's husband Walter de Colevile, so that on her death in 1368 she was succeeded by her grandchild Robert de Colevile, then only 3 years old.

['Parishes: Abington', A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4 (1937), pp. 65-69. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk]