James was born about 1120, the son of Robert “Roger” de Baskerville but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.
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| Birth | ABT 1120 |
Note 1
!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.