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Birth:          ABT 1065 Ouilly-Basset, Normandy
Death:          1127 Colston Bassett, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Burial:         Abbey, Adlington, Berkshire, England

Notes
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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 great men 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]

Parents
BASSET Thurston (ABT 1035 - AFT 1088)
____ Thurstine (ABT 1045 - )

Siblings
BASSET Ralph (ABT 1065 - 1127)

Marriage To DE BUCI Alice (ABT 1065 - BEF 1107)
    m. ABT 1098 Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England

Notes

Parents
DE BUCI Robert (ABT 1040 - )
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Children by DE BUCI Alice ABT 1065 - BEF 1107
BASSETT Thomas (ABT 1099 - 1182)
BASSETT Richard (1102 - 1144)

Marriage To DE BRUCE Agatha (ABT 1079 - )
    m. ABT 1108 

Notes

Parents
DE BRUS Robert (ABT 1051 - 1094)
DE ST. CLAIR Agnes (ABT 1053 - 1080)

Children by DE BRUCE Agatha ABT 1079 - 
BASSET Thurston (ABT 1110 - )

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