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NameRalph Basset 
[54, His own article], [80, Radulf Basset, pp. 327-8]
[54, His own article], [80, Radulf Basset, pp. 327-8]Deathca 1127
GeneralNorman. Justiciar. Domesday tenant of Robert de Oilly.
Notes for Ralph Basset
His family was from Montreuil-au-Houlme, Orne, arr. Argentan, cant. Briouze and gave their name to Ouilly-le-Basster (Calvados).
As well as Richard he had sons Nichols, Turstin and Ralph, the last a clerk.
As well as Richard he had sons Nichols, Turstin and Ralph, the last a clerk.
DNB Main notes for Ralph Basset
Basset, Ralph d. 1127?
Name: Basset, Ralph
Dates: d. 1127?
Active Date: 1107
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Justiciar
Place of
Death: Northampton
Sources: Ordericus Vitalis; Chronicle of Abingdon (Rolls series);...
Contributor: J. H. R. [John Horace Round]
Article
Basset, Ralph d. 1127?, justiciar, is mentioned by Orderic (Hist. Eccles. lib. xi. cap. 3) as one of those ‘de ignobili stirpe’ whom Henry I, early in his reign, selected for the members of his administration. He appears, from the signatures to Henry's charters, to have been in constant attendance on the court. The chronicle of Abingdon speaks of him as ‘in omni Angliæ regno justitiæ habens dignitatem,’ and Henry of Huntingdon describes his son and himself as ‘viros clarissimos / justitiarios totius Angliæ.’ His exact post is, however, somewhat doubtful. In 1106 he was one of the five arbitrators between the archbishop of York and the abbot of Ripon. He is mentioned by Orderic as presiding at ‘Bricstan's’ trial in 1115-6, and by the English chronicle as condemning forty-four men to be hanged for robbery in a ‘géwitenemot’ at Huncote in 1124. His name occurs in the Pipe Roll of 1129-30 as a justice of the forests and an itinerant justice in six counties, but he was dead at the time. He had died, probably some two years before, at Northampton, entering on his death-bed the fraternity of Abingdon, and leaving several sons from whom descended the great house of Basset.
Sources
Ordericus Vitalis; Chronicle of Abingdon (Rolls series); Henry of Huntingdon (De contemptu Mundi), p. 318 (Rolls series); Rot. Pip. 31 Hen. I; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 378; Foss's Judges of England (1848), i. 98; Stubbs's Select Charters (1870), 94-5.
Contributor: J. H. R.
published 1885
Name: Basset, Ralph
Dates: d. 1127?
Active Date: 1107
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Justiciar
Place of
Death: Northampton
Sources: Ordericus Vitalis; Chronicle of Abingdon (Rolls series);...
Contributor: J. H. R. [John Horace Round]
Article
Basset, Ralph d. 1127?, justiciar, is mentioned by Orderic (Hist. Eccles. lib. xi. cap. 3) as one of those ‘de ignobili stirpe’ whom Henry I, early in his reign, selected for the members of his administration. He appears, from the signatures to Henry's charters, to have been in constant attendance on the court. The chronicle of Abingdon speaks of him as ‘in omni Angliæ regno justitiæ habens dignitatem,’ and Henry of Huntingdon describes his son and himself as ‘viros clarissimos / justitiarios totius Angliæ.’ His exact post is, however, somewhat doubtful. In 1106 he was one of the five arbitrators between the archbishop of York and the abbot of Ripon. He is mentioned by Orderic as presiding at ‘Bricstan's’ trial in 1115-6, and by the English chronicle as condemning forty-four men to be hanged for robbery in a ‘géwitenemot’ at Huncote in 1124. His name occurs in the Pipe Roll of 1129-30 as a justice of the forests and an itinerant justice in six counties, but he was dead at the time. He had died, probably some two years before, at Northampton, entering on his death-bed the fraternity of Abingdon, and leaving several sons from whom descended the great house of Basset.
Sources
Ordericus Vitalis; Chronicle of Abingdon (Rolls series); Henry of Huntingdon (De contemptu Mundi), p. 318 (Rolls series); Rot. Pip. 31 Hen. I; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 378; Foss's Judges of England (1848), i. 98; Stubbs's Select Charters (1870), 94-5.
Contributor: J. H. R.
published 1885