Ralph BASSET, JUSTICE OF ENGLAND

Birth:
Abt 1076
Drayton, Staffordshire, England
Death:
1120
Adington, Berkshire, England
Father:
Thurston the Norman BASSET
Mother:
Notes:
                   Occupation: Justice of England
Note: Note: 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 greatmen 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]
Alice Agatha BRAIOSE
Birth:
Abt 1077
Annandale, Drumfries, Scotland
Mother:
Emma
Children
Marriage
1
Thomas BASSET
Birth:
Death:
1167
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Occupation: Justice of England
Note: Richard Basset 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. ofHugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue, Geoffrey, Ralph, andWilliam. He was s. by his eldest son, Geoffrey de Ridel, who,from his mother, assumed the surname de Ridel. [Sir BernardBurke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset, ofWelden]
3
Thurston BASSET, LORD OF COLSTON
Birth:
Abt 1106
Colston, Nottinghamshire, England
Death:
Bef 1175
 
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Ralph Basset, Justice of England - Alice Agatha Braiose

Ralph Basset, Justice of England was born at Drayton, Staffordshire, England Abt 1076. His parents were Thurston the Norman Basset and .

He married Alice Agatha Braiose . Alice Agatha Braiose was born at Annandale, Drumfries, Scotland Abt 1077 daughter of Robert Brussi and Emma .

They were the parents of 3 children:
Thomas Basset
Richard Basset, Justice of England born 1090.
Thurston Basset, Lord of Colston born Abt 1106.

Ralph Basset, Justice of England died 1120 at Adington, Berkshire, England .