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Thomas, apparently after his guardian; there is good evidence of lifelong friendship between Basset and the young earl. Following this domestic tragedy Thomas Basset exercised his right as guardian and in June 1205 he married his eldest daughter
Philippa to his ward. In 1220 Earl Henry acquired the manor of Headington on the death of his father-in-law by right of Philippa, whose share of his inheritance it was as the chief manor of his barony. The earl died however on 10 October 1229 still only around 37 but leaving his son
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life, Philippa petitioned for a divorce. She had secured this by the end of 1242 when a schedule was drawn up dividing their possessions. By the terms of the divorce
Philippa reclaimed all her lands; custody of her son by Siward went to the father, but the boy was debarred from his mother's inheritance.
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Scottish royal court after 1248 she had not forgotten him. In her latter years she endowed a light at an altar in Bicester priory for the souls of herself and, as the grant said, her children. This implies that she had more than one child by her second husband, though the
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of the king's household and a member of the royal council. Though the marriage produced at least one child, and possibly more, it was not a success, and
Philippa fell out with Richard. On the death of Gilbert Basset in 1241 and in the subsequent difficulties Siward experienced in his political
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in the reign of King John. In 1204 Thomas was awarded the wardship of the under-age earl of
Warwick, Henry, then only twelve or thirteen but already married to Margaret d'Oilly. His child wife became pregnant and died delivering twins in 1205, the elder, a boy, being named by the teenage earl
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which broke out in the summer of 1233. The king treated her with civility during the hostilities, Philippa had a protection for her dower lands in
December 1233 and free passage for her and her household into the Marches to join her husband in January 1234. The result of the rebellion was
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Philippa's sizable dowry and inheritance made her vulnerable in her widowhood, as she must have realised. This would be why she put herself under the protection of her first cousin,
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others may not have survived to adulthood. Philippa Basset died in 1265, before
November, when her heirs did homage to the king, and is said to have been buried in Bicester priory.
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as adult heir by his first wife. Philippa at this point assumed control not just of the lordship of
Headington but substantial dower lands in the earldom of Warwick: the castle of
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Philippa spent the rest of her life as the widowed countess of
Warwick, preferring to ignore the episode of her marriage to Siward (who died in 1248). She resided at her manor of
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