The Baskerville - Corbet Marriage

[mrdgen]

Many past messages in this forum have mentioned that a Sybil Corbet
married into the Baskerville line. Nearly all the messages have that
she was a daughter or sister of Peter Corbet of Caus, Shropshire.

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica has a pedigree of the
Baskervilles showing that Sybil
Corbet (da. of Peter Corbet of Caus) married William Baskerville, son
of Richard Baskerville
and (Philippa) Solers. This William Baskerville has been identified
as the one who is said to have died around 1348. (See the thread
"Baskerville of Eardisley marriages" from 11 November
2007. The marriage is repeated in that thread.)

Burke's Landed Gentry, in its discussion of "Baskerville of Clyrow
Court", has that Walter de
Baskerville, son of Richard Baskerville and (Philippa) Solers, married
Sybil Corbet, dau. of
Peter Corbet of Caux.

Watkins, in his continuation of Duncomb's "History and Antiquities of
the County of Hereford,"
(Hundred of Huntington), p. 38, has that Walter Baskerville, Lord of
Combe (Gloucestershire),
married Sybil, daughter of Peter Corbet of Caux.

Another thread of messages, "Hounding the Baskervilles," has a message
from 14 February
2007 identifying the Walter Baskerville who married Sybil Corbet as
being the Walter Baskerville who died in 1282 (or 1286). In this
message, Sybil is said to have been a daughter of Thomas Corbet of
Caus and his wife, Isabel de Valletort. The marriage of this Walter
to a
Sybil appears in the Misc. Gen. pedigree mentioned above.

On the other hand, there is the evidence from the Complete Peerage.
Thomas Corbet had son Peter Corbet, who died in 1300. Peter's first
son, Thomas, died without issue before his father. The second son,
Peter, inherited, but died without issue in 1322. The third son,
John, then inherited but died without issue before 1347. His heirs
were his aunts (daughters of the elder Thomas Corbet), Alice, married
to Robert de Stafford, and Emma, married to Brian de Brampton.

From this, we can see that the Sybil married to either Walter or
William Baskerville could not
have been a legal heir of the Corbets of Caus, as otherwise the
Baskerville line should have
also been heirs of John Corbet, last Lord Corbet of Caus. I suppose
that she may have been
illegitimate, but the real question is:

Is there any primary evidence for a Sybil CORBET to have married into
the Baskerville line?

[rgr]

On Feb 1, 12:52 pm, mrdgen <[email protected]> wrote:

Many past messages in this forum have mentioned that a Sybil Corbet
married into the Baskerville line. Nearly all the messages have that
she was a daughter or sister of Peter Corbet of Caus, Shropshire.

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica has a pedigree of the
Baskervilles showing that Sybil
Corbet (da. of Peter Corbet of Caus) married William Baskerville, son
of Richard Baskerville
and (Philippa) Solers. This William Baskerville has been identified
as the one who is said to have died around 1348. (See the thread
"Baskerville of Eardisley marriages" from 11 November
2007. The marriage is repeated in that thread.)

Burke's Landed Gentry, in its discussion of "Baskerville of Clyrow
Court", has that Walter de
Baskerville, son of Richard Baskerville and (Philippa) Solers, married
Sybil Corbet, dau. of
Peter Corbet of Caux.

Watkins, in his continuation of Duncomb's "History and Antiquities of
the County of Hereford,"
(Hundred of Huntington), p. 38, has that Walter Baskerville, Lord of
Combe (Gloucestershire),
married Sybil, daughter of Peter Corbet of Caux.

Another thread of messages, "Hounding the Baskervilles," has a message
from 14 February
2007 identifying the Walter Baskerville who married Sybil Corbet as
being the Walter Baskerville who died in 1282 (or 1286). In this
message, Sybil is said to have been a daughter of Thomas Corbet of
Caus and his wife, Isabel de Valletort. The marriage of this Walter
to a
Sybil appears in the Misc. Gen. pedigree mentioned above.

On the other hand, there is the evidence from the Complete Peerage.
Thomas Corbet had son Peter Corbet, who died in 1300. Peter's first
son, Thomas, died without issue before his father. The second son,
Peter, inherited, but died without issue in 1322. The third son,
John, then inherited but died without issue before 1347. His heirs
were his aunts (daughters of the elder Thomas Corbet), Alice, married
to Robert de Stafford, and Emma, married to Brian de Brampton.

From this, we can see that the Sybil married to either Walter or
William Baskerville could not
have been a legal heir of the Corbets of Caus, as otherwise the
Baskerville line should have
also been heirs of John Corbet, last Lord Corbet of Caus. I suppose
that she may have been
illegitimate, but the real question is:

Is there any primary evidence for a Sybil CORBET to have married into
the Baskerville line?

I believe that it is incorrect to say that the three sons of Thomas
Corbet died without issue. Burke states in both his 'History of the
Dormant and Extinct Peerages, p. 136, and the Genealogical and
Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, p. 263, that while both
Thomas and Peter died without issue that "the line of the family was
continued by the youngest of the three brothers" and that Roger, son
of John, succeeded him in his Leigh estates. Also that Alice Corbet,
wife of William Brereton, and her brother Richard Corbet were
descended from this John (probable great-grandchildren) and his father
Peter is supported by Stirnet Genealogy, 'A Topographical and
Historical Account of Wainfleet', Edmund Oldfield 1829, and
'Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to
Montgomeryshire', Powys-land Club 1893.
R.G. Reitzel