Adam de Port

Personal and Family Information

Adam was born in SEP 1151 in Basing, Northamptonshire, England, the son of John de Port and Maud de St. John.

He died on 25 JUN 1213 in Basing, Hampshire, , England.

He had two marriages/partners. His first wife was Mabel d’Orval, who he married in ABT 1169. The place has not been found. Their three known children were Joan (c1168-1213), Robert (c1170-?) and William (1173-1239).

His second wife was Sybil De Braose, who he married in ABT 1190. The place has not been found. They had no known children.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

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Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: de Port, Adam, Governor of Castle Southampton

!Source: THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES. BY THE DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND. IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. I, LONDON:, JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1889. 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

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Baskeruile :

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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 , 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 Sir Ralph Baskerville with Sibyl, heiress of >>> Adam de Port<<< and of his wife, 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. , and that on the murder of Ralph Baskerville in Northamptonshire about the year 1194, his son Thomas succeeded him at Pickthorn, the Shropshire estate , and another son, Roger, at Eardisley in Herefordshire.—

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"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' , 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.

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"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:—

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'Eques Auratus well may he he said

Whose coyne, not warlike courage, such hath made;

To Baskerville, we Miles do afford

As knighted on the field by his flesht sword.'

!Source: Geni Tree https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000002043192638

Sybil de Braose

Adam de Port

Profile Details

Birth: September 1151 in Basing, Northamptonshire, England

Death: June 25, 1213 in Basing, Hampshire, , England

Occupation: Governor of Castle Southampton

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Profile History:

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Immediate Family

Parents

John de Port

Maud de St. John

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Siblings

Clementina Hussey

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Partners and Children

Mabel d'Orval

-William de St John de Port

-Robert De St. John

-Joan de Port

Sybil de Braose

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Adam de Port, Baron

Birthdate: circa 1151

Birthplace: Basing, Northamptonshire, England

Death: June 25, 1213

Immediate Family:

Son of John de Port and Maud de St. John

Husband of Mabel d'Orval and Sybil de Braose

Father of William de St John de Port; Robert De St. John and Joan de Port

Brother of Clementina Hussey

Occupation: Governor of Castle Southampton

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Last Updated: February 7, 2025

About Adam de Port, Baron

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Adam de Port

Born: ABT 1151, Basing, Northamptonshire, England

Died: 25 Jun 1213

Notes: "This feudal baron was governor of the castle of Southampton in the 15th King John, and in the 22nd Henry II [1176] he was fined 300 marks for trespassing in the king's forests. In the 26th of the same reign [1180], he gave 1000 marks to the King for livery of his wife's inheritance in Normandy, and that he might be restored to the king's favour and do his homage. He m. Mabel, dau. of Reginald De Aurevalle, and grandchild and heir through her mother, Muriell, of Roger De St. John, and Cecily his wife, dau. and heir of Robert De Haye, Lord of Halnac, co. Sussex, and his posterity ever afterwards bore the surname of St. John. By this lady he had two sons, William and Robert."

Source: Burke, Sir John Bernard.. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire . London: Harrison. 59. Pall Mall, p. 466. – Cited by: Tudor Place.

Father: John de PORT

Mother: Maud St JOHN

Married 1: Mabel de AUREVALLE

Children:

1. Alice De PORT

2. William De St. JOHN

3. Robert De St. JOHN

Married 2: Sibyl de BRAIOSE AFT 1190, Bramber, Sussex, England

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The Complete Peerage, Vol. 11, p. 320.

ADAM DE PORT, son and heir , a minor at his father's death, was of age by Michaelmas 1172 . At Michaelmas 1180 he made a render of 1000 marks for the fine of his land and for his wife's inheritance in Normandy and that the King should remit his anger and take his homage . In 1194 he was with the King in the army in Normandy, but for some reason his Norman land had at this time been taken into the King's hand and let to farm . He accompanied King John to Normandy after his Coronation and was in freauent attendance on him from 1199 to November 1212. In 1202 he and his son William brought the prisoners captured at Mirebeau to England. Adam married, 1stly, Mabel, heiress of Orval and thereafter through her mother of the St John honor of Halnaker; and 2ndly, Sibyl "The Countess," widow of William [DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY , and daughter of William , EARL OF HEREFORD. He was living on 25 June and dead on 28 July 1213 . His widow was living and unmarried in 1219 and probably in September 1228.

Please see: http://www.hampshire-history.com/basing-house-before-the-civil-war/

Adam de Port, Lord Basing was born. Adam married Sybil de Braose de Ferrer AFTER 1161.