Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Ralph BASSET
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Montreuil-Au-Houlme, Normandy b
  • Death: Abt 1129 in Northampton d
  • Burial: Chapter House, Northampton u


    • Parents:

Family:
Children:
  1. (Unk Dau) BASSET
  2. Osmund BASSET
  3. Richard BASSET, Justiciar Of England Birth: 1 in Montreuil-Au-Houlme, Normandy Death: Before 1144
  4. Nicholas BASSET Birth: 2 in Montreuil-Au-Houlme, Normandy Death: Before 1166
  5. Turstin BASSET Birth: 3 in Montreuil-Au-Houlme, Normandy Death: Before 1165
  6. Ralph BASSET Birth: 4 in Montreuil-Au-Houlme, Normandy

Bibliography
  1. Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
  2. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
  3. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
  4. Phair, Raymond, Basset of Sapcote. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/1/1999. Subject: Basset of Sapcote. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/8dBpWo0UYnQ/m/p2CbXCFSyeYJ. Author address: rphair at CapAccess dot org. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 12/1/1999].
  5. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanders Baronies p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
place:
[Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 12/1/1999]
Sources for death Information
date:
1129-30 [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 12/1/1999]
before 31 Henry I (1131) [Ref: Foss Judges p57],
place:
[Ref: Foss Judges p57, Raymond Phair SGM 12/1/1999]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Foss Judges p57]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Foss Judges p57, Keats-Rohan DD p165, Keats-Rohan DD p166, Keats-Rohan DD p167, Keats-Rohan DP p327, Sanders Baronies p49(6)]
Research Notes:
Domesday tenant of Robert de Oilli in Buckinghamshire [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p327]

Domesday tenant, according to Keats-Rohan [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 12/1/1999]

Baron of Welden in Northamptonshire [Ref: Foss Judges p57]

Chief Justiciary in reign of William II, succeeded Ranulph Flambard, Bishop of Durham, in that office [Ref: Foss Judges p57]

Justiciar under Henry I [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p327]

his prominence under Henry I was such as to attract the label of a 'new man... raised from the dust' from Orderic [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p327]

held 1 knight's fee of the honour of Wallingford [Ref: Sanders Baronies p49(6)]

1113: land in the allod of Ralph Basset at Fonatanias Obsimine (perhaps Fontaine-Halbout, Calvados, arr Falaise, comm Bretteville-sur-Laize) was confirmed to Saint-Evroul by Henry I [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p327]

apparently born in Montreuil-au-Houlme, Normandy, which passed to his son Richard [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 12/1/1999]

family originated at Montreuil-au-Houlme, Orne, arr Argentan, cant Briouze, and gave their name to Ouilly-le-Basset [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p327]

descendant of Osmund Basset, who was vassal of the fitz Giroie kin of Hugh de Grandmesnil; he and his brothers attested a grant by Hugh's mother Hadvise to Montivilliers c1050 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p327]



Pedigree of Ralph BASSET
Ralph BASSET



Descendants of Ralph BASSET
1. Ralph BASSET m.

2nd generation

2. (Unk Dau) BASSET m.
3. Osmund BASSET m. Basilia
m. Basilia
4. Richard BASSET, Justiciar Of England m. Maud RIDEL
m. Maud RIDEL father: Geoffrey RIDEL mother: Geva Of Chester
5. Nicholas BASSET m.
6. Turstin BASSET m.

3rd generation

9. John BASSET m. Milisent
m. Milisent
11. Geoffrey RIDEL, Baron Of Great Weldon m1. Amice m2. Sibil MAUDIT
m. Amice
m. Sibil MAUDIT father: William II MAUDIT mother: Maude De HAMESLAPE
12. Ralph BASSET m. Alicia
m. Alicia
13. William BASSET m.
16. Sibil BASSET m. Robert De CAUZ
m. Robert De CAUZ father: Robert De CALZ mother: Isabel FERRERS
17. Matilda BASSET m1. Saswalo Fitz FULCHER m2. John De STUTEVILLE
m. Saswalo Fitz FULCHER father: Fulk Fitz SASWALO mother: Margaret
m. John De STUTEVILLE

4th generation

20. William BASSET m. Cecily De DUNSTANVILLE
m. Cecily De DUNSTANVILLE father: Alan De DUNSTANVILLE mother: Muriel De LANGETOT
21. Richard BASSET, Baron Of Great Weldon m.
22. Ralph BASSET m.
23. Simon BASSET m. Elizabeth AVENEL
m. Elizabeth AVENEL father: William AVENEL mother: Helewise WAARD
24. Emma BASSET m. Robert De GRENDON
m. Robert De GRENDON
25. Maud De CAUZ m1. Adam FITZ PETER m2. Ralph FITZ STEPHEN
m. Adam FITZ PETER father: Peter FITZ ESSULF mother: Emma De LASCELLES
m. Ralph FITZ STEPHEN father: Stephen TURONENSIS
27. Henry Fitz SASWALO m. Joanna De CLINTON
m. Joanna De CLINTON father: John De CLINTON

5th generation

28. Alan BASSET m.
29. Ralph BASSET, Baron Of Great Weldon m.
30. Ralph BASSET m.
31. Ralph BASSET m. Margaret
m. Margaret
33. Sir Ralph De GRENDON m. Isabel
m. Isabel
35. John De BIRKIN m1. Joan Le ENVEISE m2. Agnes De FLAMVILLE
m. Joan Le ENVEISE father: Jordan De LENVEISE mother: Cecily De ARUNDEL
m. Agnes De FLAMVILLE father: Roger De FLAMVILLE mother: Juetta De ARCHES
39. (Unk) De BIRKIN m. Sir Robert VAVASOUR
m. Sir Robert VAVASOUR father: Sir William VAVASOUR, Lord Of Hazelwood
40. Sewallis De SHIRLEY m. Isabel De MEINILL
m. Isabel De MEINILL father: Robert De MEINILL