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Personal data Richard Basset , of Thurleigh, Justice of England 

• He was born about 1095 in Colston Bassett, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England.
• He died in the year 1144 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England.Source 1
• A child of Ralph Bassett and Alice de Buci
• A child of Ralph Bassett
• This information was last updated on March 23, 2023.

Household of Richard Basset , of Thurleigh, Justice of England

He is married to Maud (Mathilda) Ridel.

They got married at Newbold, Nottinghamshire, England.

Child(ren):

1. Ralph Basset  ± 1131-1160 
2. Sibyl Basset  ± 1125-> 1185 

Notes about Richard Basset , of Thurleigh, Justice of England

Richard Basset, Justiciar temp. Henry I, who held Drayton through hismarriage 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 filledin the latter part of King Henry I's reign and through the whole of KingStephen's. In the 5th year of the latter monarch [1140], he was sheriffof Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Vere, and heserved the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Norfolk,Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicestershires. He m. Maud, only dau. and heirof Geoffrey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. of Hugh Lupus, Earlof Chester, and had issue, Geoffrey, Ralph, and William. He was s. by hiseldest son, Geoffrey de Ridel, who, from his mother, assumed the surname"de Ridel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, BaronsBasset, of Welden]

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