when Richard Siward was once more banished in 1236; and, indeed, early in the next year he appears as distinctly on the king's side, when William de Raley demanded an aid from the barons. On this occasion the rashness of his speech drew a well-merited rebuke from one of the magnates present. Other ventures In the same year Basset's name appears as having taken part in a great tournament, held at Lent, of north against south ("Norenses et Australes"). The south won the day, but not before the contest had changed into a real battle. All the influence of the Papal legate Oddone di Monferrato was required to reconcile the contending parties. Four years later, on Easter 1241, Gilbert Basset figures as one of the two chief promoters of a grand tournament of foreigners against Englishmen. This engagement was, however, forbidden to take place by the king's orders. Death In the autumn of the same year Basset met with his death. While he was going out to hunt, his horse tripped on a root and threw its rider, who was taken up in a kind of paralysis ("dissipatis ossibus et nervis dissolutis"), from which he never recovered. Before the end of August his only son, Gilbert, also died, leaving the Basset estates to devolve upon his brother Fulk. There does not appear to be any authority for Collins's incidental statement that Gilbert Basset was justiciary. References Year of birth missing 1241 deaths 13th-century English people People from Wycombe District English people of French descent Deaths by horse-riding accident in England Feudal barons of Wycombe