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Birth:          ABT 1035 Bacqueville-en-Caux, Normandy

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I26583
Following copied from website at 
[http://www.moonrakers.com/genealogy/baskerville/baskerville_family_histor y.htm]:

BASKERVILLE FAMILY HISTORY

Supplied by Brian Erwin

Edited by Peter Baskerville Rance

In October 1990 an original copy of The Herefordshire Magazine dated 1907, 
published at 84 Broad Street, Hereford, containing an article on the Baskerville family, 
written by Madeline Hopton on Page 280, and was found. And this, along with our own 
family documents and other research, was used to correct the following account. Parts 
of which have been handed down the family since 1907. There are many Baskerville 
arms but those given to the Hereford line are appropriate to a family who have lived 
So much on the border of Wales and are now residing in the Principality. The arms are 
'Argent', a chevron gullies between three heurts’. These heurts are taken from a small 
round berry called the ‘Whortle or Whin berry' of deep blue color, which grows upon 
the Welsh mountains. The heraldic expression 'hurt' denotes color and shape of the 
charge on the shield. The crest is a wolf's head erased holding in its mouth a broken 
spear with five drops of blood. In 'olden tines' wolves were hunted in Wales to 
exterminate them and no doubt some brave act of saving life from a wolf's clutches 
may have given rise to this heraldic cognizance. The motto is 'Spero ut Fidelis' the 
translation of which has been stated to be "I hope as faithful" or "Hope through 
Faith".

It has been claimed that the family of Baskerville can trace descent from the Emperor 
Charlemagne, Hugh Capet King of France, Kenneth King of Scotland, Rodrick King of 
Wales and MacMorrough King of Leinster in Ireland, [1990 P.B.R. In my research I 
have found nothing which justifies this claim]. The Baskervilles have a truly royal 
ancestry, and their pedigree, which has been authentically deduced and duly 
registered in the College of Arms, is a large one. Burke writes of the family as 'one of 
the most ancient and honorable in England.

Their connection with Herefordshire began with the ancestor who came over to help 
William the Conqueror, from Normandy, [They may have come over late in William I 
reign to assist Bernard Newmarch in his raid on Wales]. The name Baskerville is 
probably derived from Basquevillein in the Pays de Card, or Bosherville near Rouen. 
He was NICHOLAS DE BASQUERVILLE, a son of Balderic the Teuton, and was a 
cousin to William I. (From NICHOLAS and Baldric, so we learn from Wace's 'Roman de 
Rou' came from Martels de Basqueville, who fought at Senlec. The same name does 
not appear in Domesday Book, but we find the 'Martels' in Essex and Suffolk.] It is 
said that NICHOLAS DE BASQUERVILLE's name, together with that of the founder of 
the 'Mynors' was on the Roll of Battle Abbey,[1990 P.B.R. Along with hundreds of 
other families who contributed money to the building of the Abbey, at Hastings. I 
believe these rolls were lost and are no longer available to prove this point. It is said 
that in the Roll of Battle Abbey the name is spelt 'BECEURVILLE' with arms 'Argent, a 
chevron 3 hurts' This coat may be a later addition, for temp; Henry III. It was charged 
with 3-torteaux gules. Soon after the torteaux appears as 'hurts' i.e. blue spherical 
roundels were substituted for red torteaux]

Parents
TEUTONICUS Baldricus (ABT  969 - )
DE BRIONNE Aubree (ABT 1000 - )

Siblings
DE NOVAVILLA [DE NEVILLE] Richard (Teutonicus) (ABT 1020 - AFT 1066)
DE BASQUERVILLE Nicholas (ABT 1035 - )

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE BASKERVILLE Robert (ABT 1055 - 1109)
DE BOSQUEVILLE Hawise (ABT 1075 - )

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