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Richard Basset

Richard was born about 1095 in Drayton, England.¹ Richard's father was Justice of England Ralph Basset and his mother was Alice de Buci. His paternal grandparents were Thurston Basset and Thurstine; his maternal grandparents were Robert de Buci and <Unknown>. He had a brother named Gilbert. He was the older of the two children. He had two half-brothers named Thomas and Thurston. He died in 1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England.²

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]

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Norman ^*
  - b.~  0915 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
  
  Osmond de Centerville
  - b.~  0960 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
  
  Fouque de Aulney
  - b.~  1015 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy, France
  
  Thurston Basset
  - b.~  1050 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
  
  Justice of England Ralph Basset
  - b.~  1076 in Drayton, England d.1127 in Abbey Adingdon, Berkshire, England
  
  Thurstine
  
  Richard Basset
  - b.~  1095 in Drayton, England d.1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England
  
  Robert de Buci
  - b.~  1040 in Normandy, France
  
  Alice de Buci
  - b.~  1080 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

Personal Timeline

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¹ http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I13766
² http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=stolp&id=I20646&style=TABLE
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