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Sir Ralph Basset

Birth
Ouilly-le-Basset, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Death
1127 (aged 50–51)
Northamptonshire, England
Burial
Abingdon, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, England Add to Map
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He was Lord of Drayton, and a Judge.

Son of Thurston Ralph Bassett and Isabel de Broyes.

Husband of Lady Drayton, Alide de Buci (Bruce).

Father of Lord Drayton, Gilbert Thurston Bassett.

Father of Richard 1102-1144, who married Maud Ridel, daughter of Geoffrey Ridel, and with her founded the Priory of Laund in Lecestershire; and Osmund 1104-1135, Joan 1114-, and William 1114-1184.

Information taken from the book, Dictionary of National Biographies.

The chronicles of King Henry I show that he was in constant attendance at court. In 1106 he was one of the five arbitrators between the Archbishop of York and the Abbot of Ripon in Yorkshire. He is mentioned as presiding at the trial of "Bricstan" in 1115-1116, and also as having condemned 44 men to hang for robberies at Huncote in 1124. He was an itinerant justice of six counties.




He was Lord of Drayton, and a Judge.

Son of Thurston Ralph Bassett and Isabel de Broyes.

Husband of Lady Drayton, Alide de Buci (Bruce).

Father of Lord Drayton, Gilbert Thurston Bassett.

Father of Richard 1102-1144, who married Maud Ridel, daughter of Geoffrey Ridel, and with her founded the Priory of Laund in Lecestershire; and Osmund 1104-1135, Joan 1114-, and William 1114-1184.

Information taken from the book, Dictionary of National Biographies.

The chronicles of King Henry I show that he was in constant attendance at court. In 1106 he was one of the five arbitrators between the Archbishop of York and the Abbot of Ripon in Yorkshire. He is mentioned as presiding at the trial of "Bricstan" in 1115-1116, and also as having condemned 44 men to hang for robberies at Huncote in 1124. He was an itinerant justice of six counties.






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