Basset, Richard 1 2a

Birth Name Basset, Richard
Gender male
Age at Death 49 years

Narrative

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]

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1095 Drayton, England   1
Death 1144 Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England   3

Age: 49y

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Basset, Ralph10761127
Mother de Buci, Alice10801167
         Basset, Richard 1095 1144
    Brother     Basset, Thurston about 1097 1175
    Brother     Basset, Gilbert 1103 1166

Families

Family of Basset, Richard and de Ridel, Matilda
Married Wife de Ridel, Matilda ( * 1097 + 1139 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 1126 Newbold, England   3
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Basset, Sibyl11181185
Basset, Geoffrey1126
Basset, Ralph1131
Basset, William1134
Basset, Jordan1136

Source References

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        ID: I13758
        Name: @*Richard Basset
        Sex: M
        Birth: ABT 1095 in Drayton,England
        Death: 1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England
        Note: 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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        Note:
        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]
        Change Date: 19 SEP 2006

        Father: @*Ralph Basset b: ABT 1076 in Drayton,England
        Mother: @*Alice de Buci b: ABT 1080 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England

        Marriage 1 @*Matilda de Ridel b: ABT 1097 in Witering,Northamptonshire,England
        Married: ABT 1126 in Newbold,England
        Children
        @Ralph Basset b: ABT 1131 in Drayton,England
        @Jordan Basset b: ABT 1136 in Blaye, Guinne, France
        @Geoffrey Basset b: 1126 in Great Weldon, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
        @*Sibyl Basset b: ABT 1118 in Great Weldon, Northamptonshire, England
        @William Basset b: 1134 in Sapcote, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England

         

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