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<p>[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7530780, member: 75482"]I've spent some time online and also found an association of the surname Besing with Basing and Basingstoke in Hampshire. Any number of people with ancestral ties to the area may have adopted Besing or Basing as a surname. "Besing" could also mean something we haven't considered. Robert is a common given name. The matrix itself seems rather ordinary to have belonged to a Baron. The pointed oval type is quite common in the 13th and 14th centuries and according to more than one source, popular with clergy and women. I would expect something a bit grander and more armorial for a Baron but I'm not an expert. I saw several matrices online with a similar central fleur, differing mostly in the name of the owner. I couldn't find anything on the significance of the fleur. According to PAS, an initial cross is most common in the 13th. It's possible that this "Robert (of) Besing" may have been a priest or a member of a religious order.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably only a typo in the op but the actual inscription is +SI ROBERTI BESING. "Roberti" is the Latin genitive ("of").[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 7530780, member: 75482"]I've spent some time online and also found an association of the surname Besing with Basing and Basingstoke in Hampshire. Any number of people with ancestral ties to the area may have adopted Besing or Basing as a surname. "Besing" could also mean something we haven't considered. Robert is a common given name. The matrix itself seems rather ordinary to have belonged to a Baron. The pointed oval type is quite common in the 13th and 14th centuries and according to more than one source, popular with clergy and women. I would expect something a bit grander and more armorial for a Baron but I'm not an expert. I saw several matrices online with a similar central fleur, differing mostly in the name of the owner. I couldn't find anything on the significance of the fleur. According to PAS, an initial cross is most common in the 13th. It's possible that this "Robert (of) Besing" may have been a priest or a member of a religious order. Probably only a typo in the op but the actual inscription is +SI ROBERTI BESING. "Roberti" is the Latin genitive ("of").[/QUOTE]
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