Robert de Baskerville

Personal and Family Information

Robert was born about 1185, the son of Ralph de Baskerville and Sybil De Braose. The place is not known.

He died about 1210. The place is not known.

His wife was Agnes verch Owain. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Alice (c1210-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: de Baskerville, Sir Robert, Lord of Pencelli Castle [~1185 - ~1210]

!Source: AlliedFamilies https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/contents/

The Baskerville family is a very old Norman family in England. Eardisley in Herefordshire was their earliest home. Ralph de Baskerville married Sibyl, heiress of Adam de Port and held a knights fee in 1165 of Adam de Port, in Eardisley. His son, Sir Robert Baskerville, married Agnes, daughter of Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Gryfudd, Prince of South Wales. Their sons were Ralph, Walter died post 1168, Robert, died post 1173, and Richard, died 1177. Their Sir Ralph de Baskerville married a daughter of Drogo, Lord Clifford in 1154. He held his lands from the reign of Henry I through inheritance and upon his murder in 1194 in Northamptonshire, his son Roger succeeded to Eardisley, in Herfordshire and his son Thomas succeeded him at Pickthorn, the Shropshire estate. In 1200, Thomas, not yet of age, challenged Roger Fitz William … for that wickedly, and in the King peace, and in felony, and in murder, he slew Ralph de Baskerville his father in his house, and this the said Thomas saw, as he said, being a boy under age, and this he offers to prove against Roger with his body. Another son, Walter married first Emma de St. Leger, who died in 1196, then the widow, Iseult Pantulf. Emma was the mother of Walter Baskerville who was born about 1194 and died around 1243. Another son of Ralph and the lady Clifford was Ralph who died in 1186. In Warwickshire is Stretton-Baskerville, which obtained its name from William d Baskerville who held three fees of Robert, Earl Ferrers honor of Tutbury. In 1208, the last Baskerville to hold Stretton was Walter, grandson of William.

!Source: AlliedFamilies https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/contents/

geesnmore said, on October 30, 2011 at 6:12 pm

This is probably filled with errors, but I can’t bring myself to just toss it out completely. It is background material that I dug up while searching for the father of Grace Baskerville who married Edmund Gee around 1415 or earlier. Neither the Baskervilles of Eardisley, nor Sir Thomas Beaumont are the correct lines.

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The Baskerville family is a very old Norman family in England. Eardisley in Herefordshire was their earliest home.

Ralph de Baskerville married Sibyl, heiress of Adam de Port and held a knights fee in 1165 of Adam de Port, in Eardisley.

His son,

>>> Sir Robert Baskerville <<<, married Agnes, daughter of Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Gryfudd, Prince of South Wales.

Their sons were Ralph, Walter died post 1168, Robert, died post 1173, and Richard, died 1177.

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>>>Their Sir Ralph de Baskerville married a daughter of Drogo, Lord Clifford in 1154. He held his lands from the reign of Henry I through inheritance and upon his murder in 1194 in Northamptonshire, his son Roger succeeded to Eardisley, in Herfordshire and his son Thomas succeeded him at Pickthorn, the Shropshire estate. In 1200, Thomas, not yet of age, challenged Roger Fitz William … for that wickedly, and in the King peace, and in felony, and in murder, he slew Ralph de Baskerville his father in his house, and this the said Thomas saw, as he said, being a boy under age, and this he offers to prove against Roger with his body. Another son,

Another son of

>>> Ralph <<< and the

>>> lady Clifford <<< was

>>> Ralph <<< who died in 1186. In Warwickshire is Stretton-Baskerville, which obtained its name from

>>> William de Baskerville <<< who held three fees of Robert, Earl Ferrers honor of Tutbury. In 1208, the last Baskerville to hold Stretton was

>>> Walter <<< grandson of

>>> William <<<

Note: The above mixes this Ralph and his great grandfather.

!Source: Pencelli Castle, Powys, Mid-Wales https://www.castlewales.com/pencelli.html

Pencelli Castle was probably built in the late eleventh century by Ralph Baskerville and probably saw service in the war of 1093 to 1099. Robert, the last Baskerville lord of Pencelli, seems to have died around 1210, perhaps as a victim of William Braose's war that occurred in Central Wales that summer. His lands then passed through his daughters to the Le Wafre family, but were seized by Reginald Braose in 1215. The Le Wafre's regained seisin, but lost the castle to rebel and Welsh forces in 1233. The castle was rebuilt and probably taken again in 1262. It was recovered by 1273, after which the twin towered gatehouse might have been built by Roger Mortimer Junior who had acquired the castle probably through his father's agency. The fortress was seized by the king in 1322 and probably fell into decay soon afterwards. Today the ruins of the great square keep can still be made out behind the hotel which itself dates to 1584.