High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Basset (died between 1135 and 1144) was an English royal judge and sheriff during the reign of King Henry I of England. His father was also a royal justice. In about 1122 Basset married the eventual heiress of another other royal justice; the marriage settlement has survived. In 1129 and 1130 Basset was sheriff of a number of counties together with another nobleman. Basset and his wife founded a monastic house in 1125 from of their lands, which before the donation were equivalent to 15 knight`s fees. After Basset`s death between 1135 and 1144 his lands were granted to his son.