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. His paternal grandparents were Thurstan 'The Norman' Basset and Thurstine Basset; his maternal grandparents were Robert de BRUSSE and Emma de Bretagne. He had four brothers named Richard, Gilbert, Gilbert and Thurstan. He had a half-brother named Thomas. 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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- 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
- b.~ 1106 in Drayton Basset,Staffordshire,England d.1146
- b.0960 in Orkney Islands,Scotland d.23 Apr 1014 in BATTLE OF CLONTARF,IRELAND
- b.0982 in Orkney Islands,Scotland d.1031 in ,,Orkney Islands,Scotland
- b.~ 0994 in of,Glamis,Forfarshire,Scotland
- b.1011 in of,,Orkney,Scotland d.Dec 1046 in Killed,Papa Stronsay,Orkney Islands,Scotland
- b.0957 in Westgotland,Sweden d.1030
- b.1001 in Scotland
- b.0961 in Alfrastad,Norway
- b.~ 1036 in Bruis,,Normandie d.1080/1098 in Skelton Castle,Yorkshire,England
- b.BET. 915 - 927 in Russia d.BET. 972 - 973 in .,Kiev,Ukraine,Soviet Union
- b.~ 0965 in KIEV,Ukraine d.15 Jul 1015 in Berestovo,KIEV,Ukraine
- b.~ 0944 in of,Kiev,Ukraine,Soviet Union d.1002
- b.~ 1011 in <,Kiev,Kiev Oblast,Ukraine>
- b.0940 in Of,Constantinople,Constantinople,Turkey d.15 MAR 962/963
- b.13 MAR 963 in Constantinople,Byzantium d.1011
- b.~ 0936 in Of,Constantinople,Constantinople,Turkey
- b.1079 in Skelton Castle,Yorkshire,England d. in Y
- b.~ 0950 in Bretagne France d.29 JUN 992 in killed in action at Conquereuil
- b.0980 in Bretagne,France d.20 Nov 1008
- b.~ 0952 in Of,,Anjou,France d.27 JUN 992 in Anjou,Normandy,Fr
- b.0997 in Nantes,,Bretagne d.1040 in poisoned
- b.28 AUG 933 in Faecamp Normandy d.20 NOV 996 in Faecamp Normandy
- b.~ 0977 in ,,Normandy,France d.21 Feb 1034
- b.~ 0946 in ,,Normandy,France d.1031 in ,,,France
- b.~ 1035 in Nantes,,Bretagne d.1094
- b.0920 d.~ 0983
- b.~ 0956 in of,GAND,Flanders,Belgium
- b.0941 in Flanders France d.29 SEP 964
- b.~ 0992 in ,Bretagne,France
- b.0900 in Noordwijk-Binnen Zuid Holland d.6 OCT 939
- b.~ 0961 in of,,Zuid Holland,Netherland
- b.~ 0911 in <of Noordwijk-Bi,Zuid Holland,Neth.> d. in Y
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