Richard Basset 
Richard was born in 1095 in Drayton, England.1 Richard's father was Justice of England Ralph Basset and his mother was Alice de Buci. His paternal grandparents were Thurston Basset and Thurstine; his maternal grandparents were Robert Brusse and Arloia. He had two brothers named Gilbert and Thurston. He had two half-brothers named Thomas and Thurston. He died at the age of 49 in 1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England.2 General Notes
Richard Basset, Justiciar temp. Henry I, who held Drayton through his marriage with Maud Ridel, and d. 1144. [Complete Peerage II:1 note (b)]
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Richard Basset, called the eldest son by Dugdale and the 2nd by others, succeeded his father as Justice of England, which high office he filled in the latter part of King Henry I's reign and through the whole of King Stephen's. In the 5th year of the latter monarch [1140], he was sheriff of Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Vere, and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicestershires. He m. Maud, only dau. and heir of Geoffrey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue, Geoffrey, Ralph, and William. He was s. by his eldest son, Geoffrey de Ridel, who, from his mother, assumed the surname "de Ridel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset, of Welden]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0915 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
- b.0960 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
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- b.1015 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy, France d.1050 in Abbey, Adington, Bershire, England
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- b.1050 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
<Unknown>- b.1010 in Ouilly Basset, Normandy
- b.1076 in Drayton, England d.1127 in Abbey Adingdon, Berkshire, England
- b.1095 in Drayton, England d.1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England
- b.1014
- b.1055 d.1079 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
- b.0971 in Bretagne, France d.20 Nov 1008
- b.0997 in Brittany, France d.10 Oct 1040
- b.0968 in Normandy, France d.21 Feb 1034 in Evreux, Rouen, Seine-et-Maritime, France
- b.1025 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.1094
- b.0983 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.15 Nov 1037 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.1002 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France d.13 Apr 1085
- b.0990 d.1015
- b.1080 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England d.1167
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Details of Richard's family with Matilda de Ridel
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I13766
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=stolp&id=I20646&style=TABLE
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2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=stolp&id=I20646&style=TABLE
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