Richard Basset , of Thurleigh, Justice of England 
Richard was born about 1095 in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, England. Richard's father was Ralph Basset , of Colston, Justice of England and his mother was Alice de Buci. His paternal grandparents were Thurston Basset and Thurstine; his maternal grandfather was Robert de Buci , of Weldon. He had a brother named Thomas. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother named Thurston. He died in 1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England.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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- b.~ 1040 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy, France d.> 1088 in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1065 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy, France d.1127 in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1045 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1095 in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, England d.1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1040 in Normandy, France d. in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1065 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England d.< 1107
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‌Richard and Maud (Mathilda) were married in a religious ceremony in Newbold, Nottinghamshire, England. They had four sons and two daughters, named Geoffrey, Ralph, William, Jordan Basset de, Sibyl and Aliva.
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Children
Sibyl Basset
Sibyl was born about 1118 in Great Weldon, Northamptonshire, England. She died after 1185.
Geoffrey Basset , Lord of Weldon
Geoffrey was born in 1126 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. He died at the age of 49 in 1175.
Ralph Basset , Lord of Drayton
Ralph was born about 1131 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England. He died in 1160.
William Basset , of Sapcote, Sir Knight
William was born in 1134 in Sapcote, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. He died at the age of 51 in 1185.
Jordan Basset de Ridel , of Tilmouth
Jordan Basset de was born about 1136 in Blaye, Guinne, France. He died in Tilmouth, Northumberland, England.
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