Justice Of England Richard Basset Justice Of England 
Richard was born about 1106 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England. Richard's father was Ralph Basset and his mother was Agatha De Bruce. He had a brother named Gilbert. He was the younger of the two children. He died in 1146.General Notes
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]
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