Alice was born about 1210, the daughter of Robert de Baskerville and Agnes verch Owain. The place is not known.
Her husband was Robert le Wafre. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Robert (c1225-?).
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Note 1
!Note: Alice was the eldest daughter.
!Source: Full text of "A history of the county of Brecknock.
https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyo02jone/historyofcountyo02jone_djvu.txt
A BASKERVILLE ONE OF THE BENEFACTORS.
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About the same period the name of Baskerville appears conspicuous on the roll of benefactors
to the convent of Brecon. The first in the M.S. pedigrees of this family is Sir Ralph Baskerville,
who is said to have married Joan, the daughter of Rhydderch le gross of Arcop or Arcopp, whereupon
he settled in Herefordshire, and Sir Ralph Baskerville, his grandson, marrying Sibil, one of the daughters
of Adam de la Port, had with her a manor, lordship, and ample possessions in and about Eardisley
and Willersley, where they built a castle, or rather castellated mansion, wherein the elder branch of
the family resided, until the middle or latter end of the seventeenth century, and from whence they
spread by marriages into Aberedw, in Radnorshire, and the neighbourhood in which they still con-
tinue.^ Bernard Newmarch, though he did not think one of the ancestors of this family, who accom-
panied him in his expedition, of sufficient consequence to rank him among his knights, yet granted
him lands near Llandevailog tre'r graig and on the banks of the Llyfni, in Brecknockshire, for,
among the papers from which we are now extracting, we find a Robert or Roger Baskerville , by a charter, attested by Wilham de Breos and Maud his wife, and Jordan,^
archdeacon of Brecon, in consideration that the prior and monks will admit his son James into their
order, at the intercession of De Breos and his wife, grants them lands, the names of which are so
horridly disfigured that we are ashamed to introduce them, but he adds, if he shall not be able to
warrant these possessions to them, he will grant them sixty acres of land, ' quinqve solidatas terre,'*
being part of the lands brought him by his wife on their marriage, situated in the city of Worcester,
and then in the tenure of Osbert, the son of Gunnor, and he hkewise informs us that he and his
wife, in full chapter, had fraternized with the monks, and that their bodies and such part of their
property as ought to remain with or about them in the grave were to be buried there, whether they
died in Herefordshire or Breconshire, ' et sciendum est quod Ego et vxor mea suscepimus fraternitatem
illi^is ecclesie in capitulo ««o et in die obitus nostri corpora cum substantia, que sequi debit ibid sepelienda
ubicunque in comitatu Herefordie vel in provincia Brech. nobis contingatur.'
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Ralph, another of this family, about the same period, gave them lands at Bredwardine, by a
charter attested by Wilham de Breos and his wife and William de Breos the younger, which he after-
wards confirmed Ijy another, in the presence of the elder de Breos and Maud de Saint Valeri, his
wife, and of Ralph Abbot of Wigmore. By two more instruments of the same nature, the first attested
by William de Oildebeof. then constable of Brecon, and William de Burchull, and the other, which he
confirmed by the impression of his seal, before Peter bishop of Saint David's, in the chapter of
Brecon, where he presented and caused it to be read before William de Breosa and many others,
French, Enghsh, and Welsh, clerks and laity, before whom he placed it upon the altar of Saint John ;
he gave to the convent a messuage, tenement and mill, called Trosdref mill, upon the river Llyfni,
with the tolls taken for grinding there, &c., " meum molendinum de Trosdref cum moltura, dbc, et
gurgitem et situm suum super Livini.' This grant was afterwards contested by Nest, the daughter of
Griffith and widow of this Ralph Ba.skerville, but the dispute ended by her recognizing the right of
the convent to the mill, discharging them of the arrears of the rent of a mark annually since the
death of her husband, and granting them a pound of incense yearly to pray for her soul.
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The original grant of Robert or Roger Baskerville Avas again confirmed by Robert le Wafre,
who married Alice, one of his daughters, who describes it by the name of the mill of Llandevaillauc,
meaning Llandevailog tre'r graig, in which parish it was situated, and probably on the same spot
where it continues to this day. The witnesses are, Reginald de Breusia, Rich, le Bret. John de
Waldebeof, WiU. Pictaviensis or Peyton, Llewelyn son of Madoc, Will, de Burchull, Ralph the porter
{janitor) : and at a later period, though not long subsequent to these grants, Alice de Baskerville gave
to the same prior and convent a messuage or tenement, together with a croft, which Adam the smith
formerly held under her brother in the village of Bredwardine.
!Source: Source: ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE. BY THE REV. R. W. EYTON, RECTOR OF BYTON.
Non omnia grandior asetas Quae fugiamus habet . VOL. IV. LONDON JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 13, SOHO SQUARE. B. L. BEDDOW, SHIFFNAL , SALOP . MDCCCLVI I . page 185-6
I now proceed to give some account of the family which held
Hopton Wafre and Cleobury North, immediately under the Lords of
Brecknock. The names of Le Wafre, Baskerville, and Weldeboeuf
occur frequently in the twelf and thirteenth centuries, in con-
nection with certain localities in Brecknockshire and Hereford-
shire. Tedston Wafre, in Herefordshire, was held by Le Wafre
under Weldebazuf, and byWeldebmuf of the Honour of Brecknock.
Again, one Robert ls Wafre, about 1220, had to wife a Lady who
was apparently a Baskerville. One or two quotations from the
Charters of Brecknock Priory are relavant to the subject in hand.
About 1200-1210, William de Weldebeof grants to that House
“the wood which belongs to the land, which was formerly Bernard
Unspac’s,3 which passes from Brecon to Abreschir.-Witnesses :
Sir William de Bracae, Matilda his wife, William their heir, Robert
Wafre.”
Between 1216 and 1222, a confirmation by Reginald de Bruess
is attested by Robert de Wafre, and, vice vered, Sir Reginald de
Bracae attests the Charter whereby— “Robert ls Wafre, with con-
sent of his wife Alice, eldest daughter of Roger de Baskerville,
confirms to the Monks of Brecon the Mill of Landevaillane, which
Ralph dc Baskerville4 had first given them.” 5
The obit of Alice, wife of Robert le Wafre, was annually cele-
brated in Hereford Cathedral; and it was their son, intimates my
authority,5 another Robert, who, in 1243, is said to hold one hide
in Thoddesthorne of John de Weldebef, of the Honour
of Brecknock.7
Another, and nearly cotemporary Record, represents Robert le
Wafre’s Tenure in Tedethom as immediate, under the Earl of Here
ford, and by service of a fourth part of a knight’s-fee.8 About this
time, Sir Robert le Wafre and Sir John de Weldebmuf attest a
Charter of Herbert fitz Peter, then a Coparcener in the Honour of
Breeknock.9
We now turn to HoptonWafre, concerning which the Inquisition
of Stottesden Hundred, in 1255, found as follows Robert le
Wafre is Lord of Hopton, in which are two and a half hides of
land geldable ; and the said lands do suit to the Hundred Courts,
and give hydage ; and he holds in capite of the
Earl of Hereford, of the Honour of Breckenock, and renders to the
Sheriff 10d. for S tretward, and 20d. for Motfee.” 10
At the County Assizes of 1256, Robert de Wafre of Hopton was
reported as a Defaulter in due attendance. The period of this
Robert le Wafre’s death I am unable to ascertain, but hewas living
in 1265, after which he attests, as a Knight, a great Charter which
Humphrey de Bohun expedited to Brecknock Priory. 11 I
imagine it to have been at least ten years later that Lucia, his
sole daughter and heir, married to Roger, younger son of Roger
Lord Mortimer, of Wigmore. The Feodary of 1284 tells us ac-
cordingly, that Roger, son of Roger de Mortimer, holds Hopton
Waffre of the Earlof Hereford, of the Honour of Brekeynoc, and
the same Earl of the King in capite.” 12 In 1285 I find that Roger
de Mortimer presented, to Tedston-Wafre Church;13 and on May
6, 1286, Roger de Mortimer of Chirk had a grant of Free-Warren
in Hopton Waffre, as well as in six Herefordshire Manors, one of
which was Todesteme14 In the Nomina Villarum of Roger
de Mortimer is entered as Lord of Upton Wafre ; but I here quit
a subject, for further details of which, as connected with the Baro-
nial House of Mortimer of Chirks,” I may refer elsewhere.16