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ID: I4276
Name: Richard BASSET
Surname: BASSET
Given Name: Richard
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1102 in Of, Drayton Basset Stafordshire, Engand
Death: 1144
Ancestral File #: THGX-VN
_UID: E4C967F6CE880C438D5732AC2F3A48D2F497 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Change Date: 16 Nov 2003 at 00:00:00

Father: Ralph BASSET b: ABT 1076 in Of, Drayton, Staffordshire, England
Mother: Alice Mrs BASSET b: ABT 1080 in Of, Weldon, Morthamptonshire, England

Marriage 1 Matilda De RIDEL b: ABT 1097 in Of, Witering, Northamptonshire, England
Married: ABT 1126 in Newbold, Nottinghamshire, England
Children
Galfridus (Geoffrey Basset) De RIDEL b: ABT 1128 in , Drayton, Staffordshire, England
Ralph BASSET b: ABT 1131 in Of, Drayton, Staffordshire, England
Richard BASSET b: ABT 1132 in , Drayton, Staffordshire, England
William BASSET b: ABT 1134 in Of, Sapcote, Leicestershire. England
Sibel BASSET b: 1135 in Of, Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England
Jordan (Basset) RIDEL b: ABT 1135 in Of, Blaye, Guinne, France
Phillip BASSET b: ABT 1136 in , Drayton, Staffordshire, England

Sources:
Repository:
1.     Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
2.     Title: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd {2000}
Media: Book
Page: II:1b
3.      Title: Dictionary of National Biography, George Smith, Oxford Press, Vols 1-21 (Orignially published 1885-90),Ed by Sir Leslie Stephen
Media: Book
Page: I:1305-6
4.     Title: History and Antiquities of Staffordshire; Stebbing Shaw
Page: II:12-13
5.     Title: English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Sanders {1960}
Media: Book
Page: 49-50

Title: Ancestral File (R)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
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TITL Ancestral File (R)
AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
PUBL Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
ABBR Ancestral File (R)
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DATE 9 OCT 2000
TIME 22:13:59[Isabel De Birkin.FTW]

Richard Basset, called the eldest son by Dugdale and the 2nd by others, succeeded his father as Justice of England, wh ich high office he filled in the latter part of King Henr y I's reign and through the whole of King Stephen's. In the 5th year of the latter monarch [1140], he was sheriff o f Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Ve re, and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buck ingham, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicest ershires. He m. Maud, only dau. and heir of Geoffrey Ridel , Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. of Hugh Lupus, Earl o f 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 Burk e, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke' s Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset , of Welden]

Richard Basset (d 1144?), justiciar, was son of Ralph Basset, and associated with him in the administration. Henry of Huntingson speaks of him as a 'justiciary of all England,' and Orderic asserts that, under Henry I, he had power 'utpote capitalis justitiarii,' and built himself a stately keep on his paternal fief of Montreuil (an Houlme), which, however, was wrested from him on Henry's death. He appears in the Pipe Roll of 1129-30 as succeedeing to his father's circuit, and a s joint sheriff with Alberic de Vere for eleven counties. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Ridel, the justiciary, and founded, with her, the priory of Laund, Leicestershire. Foss maintains (from the Pipe Roll of I Hen II) that he was still living in 1154, but this roll does not exist, and he is mentioned as dead in the 'De Contemptu' of Henry of Huntingdon, which is attributed to 1145. [Dictionary of National Biography I:1305-6]