Sybil De Braose

Her third husband was Adam de Port, who she married in ABT 1190. The place has not been found. They had no known children.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Sybil De Braose (c1149-1228)	William De Braose (1112-1192)	Philip De Braose (1073-1134)
		Philip De Braose (1073-1134)
		Aenor Eva de Totenais (c1084-1153)
		Aenor Eva de Totenais (c1084-1153)
	Bertha FitzMiles (c1125-1204)	Miles FitzWalter (c1085-1143)
		Miles FitzWalter (c1085-1143)
		Sybil de Neufmarché (1096-1143)
		Sybil de Neufmarché (1096-1143)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: De Braose, Sybil [Heiress of Northwood & Eardisley], Countess of Ferrers [~1149 - 1228]

!Note: Roger Fitz William killed Sybil’s husband Ralph in 1190. Her son Thomas a minor witnessed the act and waited until he was of age in 1200 and challenged Roger Fitz William to a dual and survived. I don’t believe Roger Fitz William did. This sets some solid dates. Of age would have been 21, but if he was born toward the end of 1180, he could have tried for approval of his challenge when he was 20, as it was approved when he was 21, the next year.

!Note: I am adjusting Sir William 3rd Earl of Derby’s death dates slightly to make room for Sybil de Braose to marry and have children with Sir Ralph de Baskerville, as the existance of this marriage and children are fairly well documented and important to the history of the Baskervilles. I squeezed the Baskerville children as much as I could as well. Thomas’ dates are the most fixed. The rest were fairly vague, but even at that, there was barely room for this. I’m thinking the most likely problem could have been a mis-statement of Sir Williams date by 10 years, with 1189 instead of 1179, but 1175 might have been easier. The Baskerville’s may have been left out in the recording of her marriages to the other families as the de Baskervilles had the linages, and pointed to them as how they got Eardisley, but seemed to be confused when they tried to apply Sybil or anything earlier to their pedegrees. The fact that Sybil’s daughter married her second cousin may have also thrown some of them off.

Note: Since Ralph de Baskerville held a knights fee in 1165 of Adam de Port, in Eardisley, and was apparently loyal to him and likely a friend, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that he may have decided to help Sibyl and her family, leading to her recieving his inheritance as well. It is ineresting that we never hear her children by William de Ferrers mentioned with her name after his death.

!Source: THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. - WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES. - BY THE DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND. - IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. I

- LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

- This electronic edition was prepared by Michael A. Linton, 2007 www.1066.co.nz

http://www.1066.co.nz/Mosaic%20DVD/library/Battle%20Roll/battle_abbey_roll1/battle_abbey_roll1.html

Their tenure of Eardisley Castle "commenced at least as early as the thirteenth century. In 1251 Humphrey de Bohun and Aleanore his wife, by a fine granted the manor of 'Irdesle' to

>>> Walter de Baskerville <<< [Close Rolls, 36 Hen. III. m. 16 [1245 AD]], but there is good reason to believe that his ancestors had been settled in that place—certainly in the county—at a much earlier date. They claim, indeed, to have acquired possession of the manor of Eardisley by the marriage of

>>> [Ysolda] <<<, who was a daughter of De Braose, and a grand-daughter of Milo, Earl of Hereford. With greater certainty we may state that Ralph de Baskerville held lands under Adam de Port de veteri feoffamento, i.e. by inheritance from the reign of Henry I. [Lib. Scut], and that on the murder of Ralph Baskerville in Northamptonshire about the year 1194, his son Thomas succeeded him at Pickthorn, the Shropshire estate [Eyton's Shropshire], and another son, Roger, at Eardisley in Herefordshire.—[Her. Visit.]

"Walter de Baskerville, grandson of this Roger, had licence from the Bishop of Hereford in 1272 'to hold divine service in an oratory built within the walls of the castle' [Reg. Breton], and we may assume from this that Eardisley had then become the chief residence of the family, as it continued to be for the four succeeding centuries.

"During that long period the house of Baskerville produced a series of knights, whom to mention by name would exceed our limits. They won their spurs not by wealth or by waiting upon the Court, but by active service at home and abroad, and on the grave of each might be inscribed the quaint old epitaph:—

Occupation: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rwfurtaw&id=I20928

Sybil de Braose from The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy [updated 12 Aug 2022], "English Lords A - C". 4. SIBYL [-after 5 Feb 1228]. “Willielmus comes de Ferrariis” donated property to Tutbury

!Source: Sybil de Braose https://www.geni.com/people/Sybil-de-Braose/6000000002172838952

Also Known As: "de/ Brewes/ Brewys/braose/", "DE FERRERs", "Braiose", "de Ferrers"

Mother of Sir William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby; Agatha de Ferrers; Millicent de Ferrers; Son Ferrers; Robert de Ferrers, Lord Eggington; Lady Petronille de Ferrers, of Derby; Henry de Ferrers and Eleanor de Ferrers

Sister of William III de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber; Reynold de Braose and Bertha de Beauchamp

Occupation: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rwfurtaw&id=I20928

4. SIBYL . “Willielmus comes de Ferrariis” donated property to Tutbury Priory, for the soul of “uxoris meæ Sibillæ et liberorum meorum”, by charter which names “antecessores mei…Henricus de Ferrariis et Engenulphus et Robertus avus meus et Robertus comes pater meus”[819]. “Robertus [mistake for Willielmus] comes de Ferrariis” donated property to Dore Abbey, for the souls of “Sibilla de Braosa, uxoris meæ matris W. filii mei et sua, et…Bertæ matris uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[820]. The Complete Peerage states that this charter is considered to be a fabrication, and that there is no other proof of the parentage of William’s wife[821]. However, another document indicates Sibyl’s parentage: a charter of John King of England relating to Briouse properties, dated 1212, recites the history of the king’s turbulent relationship with the family and includes a record that “Willielmus de Breosa...Matildis de Heya uxor sua et W. comes de Ferar. nepos suus et Adam de Porter qui sororem suam habuit in uxorem” petitioned the king [822]. While confirming that the mother of William de Ferrers Earl of Derby was the sister of William [III] de Briouse, this document does not state that she was the same daughter of William [II] de Briouse who married Adam de Port. Confirmation of this fact awaits the emergence of a primary source which records that Adam’s second wife was named Sibyl. m [firstly] WILLIAM de Ferrers Earl [of Derby], son of ROBERT de Ferrers Earl [of Derby] & his wife Margaret [Peverel] . [m secondly as his second wife, ADAM de Port, son of JOHN de Port & his wife Maud --- .]

daughter of William II de Braose and Bertha FitzMiles wife of William de Ferrers Earl of Derby and Adam de Port

Note: He [William de Ferrieres] married Sibyl, daughter of William de Braiose, Lord of Bramber, by Bertha , sister and coheir of William DE HEREFORD, and 2nd daughter of Miles ,EARL OF HEREFORD. He died on Crusade, at the siege of Acre, in palestine, in 1190, before 21 October. His wife survived him, and married 2ndly Adamde Port, Lord of Basing, who died 1213, and was, perhaps, living as late as 5 February 1227/8. [Complete Peerage IV:192-4, XIV:250, ]

Father: William De Braiose b: 1112 in Abergavenny, Over Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales

Mother: Bertha FitzPWalter, de Piers, de Gloucester b: Abt 1110-1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

Marriage 1: William "Walkelin" de Ferrers b: Abt 1135-1140 in Ferriers-Saint-Hilaire, France

1. Has Children William II De Ferrers b: Abt 1162-1170 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England

2. Has Children Agatha de Ferrers b: 1168-1172 in Chartley, Staffordshire, England

"21. Another example of this custom may be seen in the daughter of an earlier Braose family. Sybil de Braose married, first, William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and, second, Adam de Port. After the death of Adam de Port, Sybil was known as the Countess of Ferrers. "

"William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby – born about 1130 at Tutbury Castle, Derbyshire, England; married about 1173/74 in Sussex, England to Sybil de Braose , daughter of William de Braose, Sheriff and Bertha de Gloucester ; died before 21 Oct 1190 at Siege of Acre, Jerusalem; children: William, Agatha, Millicent, Robert, Elizabeth."

Source: Historical Genealogy Magazine, Volume 4. Philadelphia, PA: CharDan Publishing. p. 21.

"Robert instead of William, in a grant quoted to Discoverie of Errours, by Vincent in which Sybilla de Braose is give as the name of the donor's wife and the mother of his son William. That son, in a confirmation to the monastery of Tutbury lists his ancestors as follows:—Henricus de Ferrariis fundator huiusdem..."

Source: Leicestershire Archaeological Society. Transactions, Vols .20-21, p. 160.

Collins,Carr Pritchett.[ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Royal_Ancestors_of_Magna_Chart... Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons Including Ancestry of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Elizabeth Knox,,,,]

Money, Walter F.S.A. . Oxford: Packer & Co. The History of Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury, Berk; "Pedigree of the Marshall Family,"

Norr, Vernon, M. . 'Some Early English Pedigrees: Combined from Most Available Sources, pp. 34-36.

William de Braose [a], Lord of Abergavenny, b abt 1106, of Bramber, Sussex, England, and Briouze, Normandy, d 1192-1193, England. He md Bertha of Hereford abt Aug 1148, Herefordshire, England, daughter of Sir Miles Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford, and Sibyl de Neufmarche.

Sybil de Braose b abt 1152, Bramber, Sussex, England, d aft 5 Feb 1227/28. She md Sir William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, abt 1165, son of Sir Robert de Ferrieres, Earl of Derby, and Margaret Peverel.

Sibyl de Braiose is Robert de Ferrers' wife per Burke,"Dormant Peerages",London,1883,p.196, who states that Robert's son William also had a wife named Sibyl .

Sibyl de Braose is Robert de Ferrers' wife per Burke,"Dormant Peerages",London,1883,p.196, who states that Robert's son William also had a wife named Sibyl .

Sybil de Braose was born on 1152 in Bramber, Sussex, England to William De Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and Bertha De Pitres De Braose. Sybil married William I de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby on 1161 in Sussex, England and had 2 children: William II de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby and Pernell de Ferrers. Sybil married Adam de Port, Lord Bashing AFTER 1161.

Sybil De Braose was born in Bramber, Sussex between 1146-1150 , the daughter of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and Bertha de Gloucester

Agatha de Ferrers b: 1168-1172 in Chartley, Staffordshire, England concubine of John "Lackland, King of England

Born in Bramber, England on 1149 to William De Braose and Bertha De Gloucester. Sybil married William De Ferrers and had 8 children. Sybil married Walkelin De Ferrieres and had 6 children. Sybil married Adam De Port. She passed away on 1228 in Ferrers Derby, Derbyshire, England.

!Source: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mediæval Military Architecture in England, by George Thomas Clark https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64187/old/64187-h/64187-h.htm

In 1134 Hugh, son of William Norman, gave to Gloucester Abbey the church of St. David at Kilpeck and the chapel of St. Mary in the castle. Ewias was a stronger place, but nearly all the masonry is now gone. The Harold from whom it derives its distinctive name was an English proprietor before the Conquest. Of the lesser castles were Croft, for centuries the seat of a still109 extant family of that name; Lingen, an early castle built by Turstine de Wigmore; Lyonshall, an early D’Evereux castle; Kingston, of which no trace remains; Almley, reduced to its original mound; Kingsland, reputed a Saxon seat; Weobley, a De Lacy castle in the reign of Stephen; Castle Frome, also built by the Lacys, and now a mound only. Asperton, a Grandison castle built on the edge of the Roman way, is now destroyed, as are Ellington and Mortimer’s Castle at Much Marcle. Of Huntingdon, on the Radnor border, a De Braose castle, the mound remains, as of Eardisley, called in “Domesday” a “domus defensabilis.” Cubbington was a castle of the De la Fields, and Bredwardine of a family of that name who gave place to the Baskervilles. Whitney Castle stood on the Wye, as a little higher up did Clifford, of which the masonry was the work of Ralph de Todeni and his successor Fitz Pons, ancestor of the great house of Clifford, who hence derived their name. The Castelry of Clifford was held at “Domesday” by Roger de Lacy. Wilton Castle on the Wye, the seat of a well-known barony, was built by Longchamp in the reign of Henry I., and of that age were Pembridge and probably Tretire, a Fitz Warine castle now destroyed. Besides these there are others of which less is known; Longtown or Ewias Lacy, built in part of Roman material; Snodhill, probably Norman; Twyford, and Urishay in Peterchurch, a De la Hay work; Eccleswall and Castle Comfort reduced to their mounds; the bank and ditches of the latter seen on a hill-side half a mile from Leominster, are the reputed remains of the palace of Werewald, King of Mercia, late in the seventh century. Mention is also made of Mouse Castle, near Hay; Dorston, a Soler’s castle; Cusop, a mere tower; Bransil, on the Worcestershire border, now a ruin; Kinnersley; Eaton Tregoz, a Baskerville seat in 1251; Moccas, of which the moat remains; and Penyard, probably Norman. It is to be remembered that most of the castles in masonry in Hereford and Radnor were built upon earthworks of far earlier date.

Note: Eardisley was not part of the early Baskerville holdings. It was a fortified manor recorded in Domesday and is listed as a De Braose castle as of 1134, under the broader Brecknock lordship. It entered the Baskerville family by marriage, likely as part of the dowry of Sybil de Braose, who married Sir Ralph de Baskerville . This explains its transition from a De Braose fortress to a Baskerville stronghold by the late 12th century.

Sybil De Braose

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Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

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Note 1