• General Notes

  Note: BIOGRAPHY: 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
  Children
  Sybil BASSET b: Abt 1127 in Great Weldon,Northamptonshire,England
  Ralph BASSET b: 1131
  William BASSET b: 1134 in Sapcote,Leicestershire,England
  Richard BASSET b: Abt 1132 in Walling ford Castle,Berkshire,England
  Jordan BASSET b: Abt 1135 in Blaye,Guienne,France
  Geoffrey BASSET b: 1125 in Great Weldon,Northamptonshire,England
  
  Children
  *Ralph Basset b: ABT 1131 in Drayton,Eng
  *Jordan Basset b: ABT 1136 in Blaye, Guinne, France
  *Geoffrey Basset b: 1126 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
  *Sibyl Basset b: ABT 1118 in Great Weldon, Northamptonshire, England
  *William Basset b: 1134 in Sapcote, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England
  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]

Details of Richard's family with Mathilda DE RIDEL