From Brock Holden's "Lords of the Central Marches" . . . (where he is referred to as Ralph I)
"Ralph continued the family's connection with Miles of Gloucester and his sons, gaining the Archenfield manors of Orcop, Treaddow and Westfield from the earls of Hereford, King Stephen having granted all of Archenfield to Miles of Gloucester in 1137. The Baskervilles also possessed the manor of Bredwardine by the early 1140s. Bredwardine, a former Domesday manor of Alfred of Marlborough, possibly came to Roger de Baskerville (Roger's father) from Bernard de Neufmmarche, who had attached Alfred's manors to his new lordship of Brecon. Ralph de Baskerville gave land above his park there to Dore Abbey at some point after 1141.
Ralph died about 1148/9"
He " accused Lord Clifford of unjustly siezing the property of Colwyn castle, and challenged him to single combat in the churchyard of Llowes, where Lord Clifford was killed". He obtained a pardon from the Pope, who had been very angry at him for descrating the churchyard. There is apparently an upright stone in Llowes churchyard that supposedly marks the spot where Lord Clifford fell.
According to Watkins, Ralph was born as late as 1135 and married the daughter of Drogo, Lord Clifford 1170 Eardisley and died in 1194 at Northampton
According to Duncan's "History of Herefordshire" he paid a fee to the crown for his land. |
