Geoffrey Ridel

  General Notes:

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Basset), Vol. II, p. 1, footnote (a), Ricahrd Basset was married to Maud, daughter and heir of Geoffry Ridel, a powerful feudal Baron, whose land's the Bassets inherited. ¹⁴¹

~Biographia Juridica, p. 559, Geoffrey Ridel married Geva, the daughter of Hugh de Abrincis, Earl of Chester, by whome he left only a daughter named Matilda, who married Richard Basset, the Justiciary. Their eldest son assumed the name of Ridel, and the barony became extinct in the third generation. [Angl. Sac. ii. 701; Dugdale's Baron. i. 555.] ⁸⁵²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: : was a judge in England. ⁸⁵²

• Death : He drowned in the White Ship disaster along with Prince William on his return from Normandy, 1119. ^852,906

• Information. ⁹⁰⁶
In the Liber Nigher [Herne I. 222], under Nottinghamshire, there is an entry that related to a Staffordshire tenement, "Galfridus Ridel tenet feoda ij. militum et dimidii." Robert de Buci was the tenant of two Staffordshire estates held by Hubert Fitz Ralph in 1166, Bradley-in-the-Moors and the Manor Kingsley. In the Northhampton Domesday Survey, he is also shown as a Baron, holding some sixteen estates in capite of the Crown. One of these was Weledene, or Weldon.
~"The Liber Niger Scaccarri", Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. I, p. 225

Geoffrey married Geva of Chester, daughter of Hugh d’Avranches and Unknown. (Geva of Chester was born about 1097.)