Ralph Basset 
Ralph was born about 1076 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, Engand. Ralph's father was Ralph Basset and his mother was Alice De Buci. His paternal grandparents were Thurston De Basset and Thurstine; his maternal grandfather was Robert De Buci. He had a brother named Thomas. He was the younger of the two children. He died in 1127 in Abbey Adingdon, Berkshire, England.General Notes
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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.~ 0915 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
- b.~ 0965 in Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
- b.~ 0995 in Ouilly-Bassett, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1008 in Ouilly-Bassett, Normandy, France d.> 1066 in Drayton, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1037 in Drayton, Staffordshire, England d.1120 in Adingdon, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1076 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, Engand d.1127 in Abbey Adingdon, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1020 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
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Children
Thomas Basset
Thomas was born about 1099 in Colston, England. He died about 1182 in Hedington, Oxfordshire, England.
Richard Basset
Richard was born about 1102 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, Engand. He died in 1144.
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