Richard Basset 
Richard was born about 1102 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, Engand. Richard's father was Ralph Basset and his mother was Agatha de Bruce. His paternal grandparents were Ralph Basset and Alice De Buci; his maternal grandparents were Robert De Bruce and Agnes Paganal De Saint Clare. He had four brothers named Thomas, Nicholas, Gilbert and Thurston. He was the second oldest of the five children. He had a half-brother named Robert. He died in 1144.General Notes
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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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- 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
- b.~ 1102 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, Engand d.1144
- b.~ 0987 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1031
- b.1001 in Orkney Islands, Scotland d.1046 in Papa Stronsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 0985 in Gothland, Sweden
- b.~ 1029 in Normandy, France d.1094 in Carrick, Argyll, Scotland
- b.~ 1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jul 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.1017 in Normandy, France
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.~ 1050
- b.~ 1050 in Gysborn, Scotland d.1194 in Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
- b.~ 0980 in Bretagne, France d.20 Nov 1008 in Bretagne, France
- b.~ 0997 in Bretagne Province, France d.01 Oct 1040
- b.~ 0969 in Normandy, France d.21 FEB 1032/33 in Bretagne, France
- b.~ 1025 in Bretogne, Brittany, France
- b.~ 0980 in Blois, France d.15 Nov 1037 in Lorraine
- b.~ 1002 in Bretagne, Province, France d.1084
- b.~ 0982 in Normandy, France d.~ 1017
- b.~ 1087 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.1142
- b.~ 0976
- b.~ 1020 in Moutiers-Huber, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1036 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1010
- b.~ 1066 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England d.1099
- b.~ 1041 in Dudley, Worcester, England
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They had six sons and a daughter, named Geoffrey Galfridus, Ralph, Richard, William, Jordan, Philip and Sibyl.
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Children
Sibyl Basset
Sibyl was born about 1127 in Great Weldon, Northamptonshire, England. She died after 1185.
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