Salomon de Basing ( 13th century) was an English politician of medieval London. He served alongside Hugh Basing as a
Sheriff of London
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in 1214, and was elected
Lord Mayor in 1216 after the deposition of
Jacob Alderman on
Trinity Sunday
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.
[ Riley, H. T. (1863). ''Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London, A.D. 1188 to A.D. 1274''. ]London
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: Trübner. p. 4. (Translated from Arnold Fitz Thedmar's ''Liber de Antiquis Legibus''). He was succeeded by earlier mayor
Serlo le Mercer in 1217.
Adam de Basing
Adam de Basing (died 1266) was a 13th-century English politician and Mayor of London. The scion of a London political family, he was the son of alderman Peter Basing and grandson of an earlier mayor, Salomon de Basing.Fox, Christine M. (2014)"A ...
, his son or grandson, served as a Sheriff in 1243 before being elected Lord Mayor in 1251. London's
Basinghall Street
Bassishaw is a ward in the City of London. Small, it is bounded by wards: Coleman Street, east; Cheap, south; Cripplegate, north; Aldersgate, west.
It first consisted of Basinghall Street with the courts and short side streets off it, took its name from the Basing/Bassing family, which,
Stow writes, was 'of great antiquity and renown' within
the realm.
[Stow, John (1929). ''The Survey of London'' (Everyman's Library). London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. p. 257. (Original work published 1598).]
References
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13th-century mayors of London
Sheriffs of the City of London