Ralph Basset 
Ralph was born in 1050 in Drayton,Staffordshire,England.1 Ralph's father was Thurstan 'The Norman' Basset and his mother was Thurstine Basset. His paternal grandfather was Foulques D'Aulney. He had two brothers and a sister, named Ralph, Gilbert and Maude. He was the oldest of the four children. He died at the age of 70 in 1120 in Abbey Adington,Drayton Basset,Staffordshire,England.1 General Notes
BIOGRAPHY: Few families in the early annals of England can boast of a more eminent progenitor than the Bassets, and the descendants of few of the Anglo-Norman nobles attained a higher degree of power than those of Ralph Basset (son of Thurstan, the Norman), who was justice of England under King Henry I. We find his son Ralph, in the reign of Stephen, "abounding in wealth and erecting a strong castle upon some part of his inheritance in Normandy." Ralph Basset, the justice of England, required none of the artificial aids of ancestry to attain distinction; he had within himself powers sufficient at any period to reach the goal of honour, but particularly to the rude age in which he lived. To his wisdom we are said to be indebted for many salutary laws, and among others for that of frank pledge. Like all the great men of his day, he was a most liberal benefactor to the church. He d. in 1120, leaving issue, Thurstine, Thomas, Richard, Nicholas, and Gilbert. [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.~ 0870 in Ouilly-Basset,Normandy,France d.Deceased
- b.~ 0915 in Ouilly-Basset,Normandy,France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0960 in Ouilly-Basset,Normandy,France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1005 in Ouilly-Basset,Normandy,France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1030 in Ouilly-Basset,Normandy,France d.> 1086 in Y
- b.1050 in Drayton,Staffordshire,England d.1120 in Abbey Adington,Drayton Basset,Staffordshire,England
- b.~ 1060 in D,England
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Ralph and Agatha were married in a religious ceremony in Drayton,Staffordshire,England.1 They had five sons named Richard, Gilbert, Gilbert, Richard and Thurstan.
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Children
Richard Basset
Richard was born about 1088 in Of,Drayton Basset,Staffordshire,England.1 He died in 1144.1
Gilbert Basset , of Wallingford
Gilbert was born about 1103 in Wallingford,Berkshire,England. He died after 1165.
Richard Basset Justice Of England
Richard was born about 1106 in Drayton Basset,Staffordshire,England. He died in 1146.
He had a biological son named Thomas.
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