Arms of Baskerville

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Baskerville Heraldry

Contents 1 Notes on the Arms of Baskerville 1.1 Visitations of Herefordshire 1.2 Other Heraldic Evidence 1.3 Coats 1.4 Notes on Other Coats 2 Sources

Notes on the Arms of Baskerville

Heraldic sources/evidence for the Baskervilles and their descendants.

Visitations of Herefordshire

The arms of Baskerville in the Visitation of Herefordshire 1569 were:^[1]

• 1 & 4: Argent a chevron gules between three hurts azure [Baskerville]
• 2: Azure a fess ermine, in chief a label of five points Or
• 3: Gules a fess Or between three escallops argent [which are Pichard/Pychard]^[2][3]

In the Visitation of Herefordshire in 1634^[4] 1 and 3 were the same but...

• 2: Gules a fess ermine, a label of three points Or [Lenthall]

The notes state that "quarters 2 and 3 are identified in CA Vincent 115, f65v".

Other Heraldic Evidence

The arms of Baskerville in the Visitation of Hampshire include a mullet for difference^[5], possibly representing Philip Baskerville.

Arms of Whitney/Baskerville:^[6][7] Robert Whitney and Sibyl Baskerville

Monument to Simon Baskerville and William Baskerville at Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire.^[8]

Monument of Sir Mark Steward at Ely Cathedral (probable grandson of Cecily Baskerville).^[9]

Monument of Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet, at Cranworth, Norfolk.^[10]

At Kentchurch, Herefordshire:^[11]

(3) chaplet of foliage with shield-of-arms, Baskerville impaling (or) gules a fesse (or) between three scallops argent; (4) chaplet of guilloche pattern alternating with four roses, enclosing shield with Baskerville impaling Nanphan.

Worcester Cathedral, in a stained glass window from the Victorian era:^[2]

"In the tracery on the right side of the window"

No. 1, in quartrefoil, Pychard impaling Sapy.

No. 2, Brugge impaling Pychard.

No. 3, Baskerville impaling Brugge quartered with Pychard and Sapy.

"No. 1 and 4, Brugge, 2, Pychard, 3, Sapy. These arms relate to the Pychards of Staundon, co. Hereford, and Sapy Pychard, co. Worcester."

Quarterings for Mynors, descendants of the Baskervilles, including Baskerville, Brugge, Delamere, Pichard, and Sapy.^[12]

The arms of Humphrey Baskerville, Alderman of London, were described as:^[13]

"Argent, on a chevron gules between three hurts a crescent or. (List by Wm. Smith, Rouge-dragon.)"

The arms noted above including the crescent were also recorded as one of the quarterings of the arms of Owen of Condover, presumed to be the arms of Sir Roger Owen, grandson of Humphrey Baskerville, Alderman of London.^[14]

Ann Baskerville, daughter of Humphrey Baskerville, Alderman of London, married Thomas Edwards. The Arms for Edwards in the Visitation of Shropshire^[15] included 'Argent, on a chevron gules between three hurts' [Baskerville]. However, no crescent was recorded.

His daughter Angel married William Maynard. The arms of Maynard have been shown impaled with the arms of Baskerville. No crescent was recorded on the arms of Baskerville.^[16]

The arms of Baskerville including the crescent are also one of the 6 quarterings of the arms of Patten of Newington, Middlesex.^[17] William Patten of Newington was the son of Richard Patten, a Clothworker of London, and Grace Baskerville. Grace pre-deceased her husband Richard Patten who died in 1536. Grace Baskerville was a daughter of a John Baskerville. All that is known at this time about John Baskerville is that he died before 1513, he was buried at Bermondsey Abbey, and his widow was Alice who had been married previously to Richard Crakenthorp. Another of the 6 quarterings of the arms of Patten of Newington, Middlesex, is Pychard.

Monument to Charles Vaughan at Bishopstone, South Wiltshire. He died 22 Mar 1597.^[18] The arms include Baskerville and Pychard. The connection with Baskerville is as yet unknown.

Arms in a chapel at Lytescary, Somerset^[19] representing the marriage of Henry Lyte and Constance Baskerville, daughter of Captain Nicholas Baskerville in 1621.

Lyte and Baskervile. Anno Dom. 1621.

Gules a chevron between three swans argent, billed or; impaling

Argent a chevron gules between three hurts.

See also Lyte/Baskerville stained glass at Lytescary.^[20][21]

Coats

Baskerville: 'Argent a chevron gules between three hurts azure'.^[22]

Arms of Walter Baskervile in the St George's Roll aka Charles Roll (c 1285): 'Argent a chevron gules between three hurts'.^[23][24]

Baskerville: 'Argent a chevron gules between three torteaux'.

Arms of Joan de Baskervile in the St George's Roll aka Charles Roll (c 1285): 'Argent a chevron gules between three torteaux'.^[23]

Arms of Andrew de Baskervile in the St George's Roll aka Charles Roll (c 1285): 'Argent a chevron azure between three torteaux'.^[23]

Lenthall: 'Gules a fess ermine, a label of three points Or'.

These arms are seen with Baskerville in the Visitation of Herefordshire 1634 and were ascribed to Lenthall. They are also seen with Whitney/Baskerville (albeit the label is 5 points) and William Baskerville of Wiltshire (also a label of five points) and on the monument to Sir Mark Steward (label of 5 points). As described above the Visitation of Herfordshire in 1569 includes the arms with a label of 5 points but in this case the coat was azure whereas in all the other examples the coat is gules.

The connection between Baskerville and Lenthall is unknown. There was a medieval Lenthall family in Herefordshire. See Rowland Lenthall. Other arms ascribed to Lenthall.^[25]

Boteler/Butler: 'Gules a fesse checky argent and sable between six crosslets formy Or'.^[26]

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville. The image of the monument of Sir Mark Steward shows 'Gules a fesse checky argent and sable between six crosslets argent'. Not seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire.

The connection between Baskerville and Boteler is unknown.

Grosse/Le Gros: 'Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets Or'.

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville ascribed to Le Gros and William Baskerville of Wiltshire.

Grosse appears in a list of Cornish arms.^[27] The image of the monument of Sir Mark Steward shows 'Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets argent'.

The connection between Baskerville and Grosse/Le Gros is uncertain. Le Gros was included in a Baskerville pedigree by Burke.^[28]

Brydges/Brugge: 'Argent, on a cross sable a leopard's face Or'.^[29]

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville ascribed to Bruges, and William Baskerville of Wiltshire ascribed to Bruges, and on the monument of Sir Mark Steward.

Connection is presumed to be Joan Brugge, wife of Sir John Baskerville.

Pychard: 'Gules a fess Or between three escallops Argent'.^[2]

These arms are seen with Baskerville in the Visitations of Herefordshire 1569 and 1634. Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville though seen in a Whitney panel of 8 but with a fesse argent.^[6] Not seen at all with William Baskerville of Wiltshire. They do appear on the monument of Sir Mark Steward and in the arms of Patten of Newington.^[17]

Connection is presumed to be Johanna Pichard, wife of Edmund Brugge.

Bodenham: 'Azure, a fess Or between three chessrooks argent'.^[30]

Seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire and on the monument of Sir Mark Steward. Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville.

There was a marriage of a Bridget Baskerville, daughter of Humphrey Baskerville, to a Roger Bodenham, perhaps c 1582, but it is unclear why the arms of Bodenham should appear with William Baskerville of Wiltshire and Sir Mark Steward.

Hugh de Bodenham of Herefordshire bore 'azure a fess between three chess-ooks Or'.^[31]

Burgess: 'Gules a fesse checky sable and Or between three crosses Or'.

Seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire. Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

The connection between Baskerville and Burgess is unknown.

Leighton: 'Quarterly gules [the other quarters not indicated] per fesse indented, a label of three points Or'.

Seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire. Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

The connection between Baskerville and Leighton is unknown.

Sir Richard Leighton bore 'quarterly per fess indented or and gules, over all a bendlet'.^[32]

Audley: 'Gules, a fret Or'.^[33]

Seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire (tincture of the fret not indicated), ascribed to Audley. Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

The connection between Baskerville and Audley is uncertain. There are Audleys in the ancestry of Elizabeth (Touchet) Baskerville wife of Sir John Baskerville.

Waterton: 'Gules two bars ermine three crescents sable'.

Seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire, ascribed to Waterton. Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

The connection between Baskerville and Waterton is uncertain. A possible connection is through the ap Harry family of Poston, ancestors of the Elizabeth the 2nd wife of Sir Walter Baskerville.^[34] Elizabeth was a daughter of Milo ap Harry. William Baskerville of Wiltshire was a descendant of Elizabeth the second wife of Sir Walter Baskerville.

A John ap Harry married Elizabeth Waterton, daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Waterton.^[35] However, Milo ap Harry and his daughter Elizabeth are not descended from John ap Harry and Elizabeth but from Griffith ap Harry the brother of John ap Harry. Elizabeth Waterton and John ap Harry had male line descendants who inherited.

Similar coats: 'Gules, three bars ermine, over all three crescents sable'^[36]; and 'Barry ermine and gules three crescents sable' [Waterton]^[37]

Sapey: 'Argent, on a bend gules three round buckles Or'.^[38]

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville. Not seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

Connection is Isolda (de Sapey) Pichard wife of Roger Pichard.

Solers: 'Argent, a chevron azure between three lions’ heads erased gules'^[39]

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville. Not seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

Connection is Philippe (Solers) Baskerville wife of Richard de Baskerville.

Paveley: Azure a Cross patoncée Or'.^[40]

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville. Not seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

The connection between Baskerville and Paveley is uncertain. An Isabelle Paveley, daughter of Sir Walter Paveley, was included in a Baskerville pedigree by Burke.^[28]

Blacket of Icomb: 'Azure a bend between six cross crosslet fitchy Or'.^[7]

Seen with Whitney/Baskerville. Not seen with William Baskerville of Wiltshire or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

Connection is Anne (Blaket) Baskerville wife of Ralph Baskerville Esq.

Notes on Other Coats

Devereux: 'Argent, a fess gules in chief three torteaux'.^[22][41]

Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville or with William Baskerville of Wiltshire or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

Sibyl (Devereux) Baskerville wife of Sir James Baskerville was not an heiress and hence presumably why the arms were not brought in.

Touchet: 'Ermine a chevron gules'.^[42]

Not seen with Whitney/Baskerville or with William Baskerville of Wiltshire or on the monument to Sir Mark Steward.

Connection is Elizabeth (Touchet) Baskerville wife of Sir John Baskerville.

Sources

1. ↑ The Visitation of Herefordshire 1569. Weaver F W (Ed.), 1886. Baskerville Pedigree pp 7-8 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Picards or Pychards of Brecknockshire … Herefordshire ... 1878. p 104 and Pychard Pedigree after p 172 Google Books.
3. ↑ Armorial Bearings of the Pychard family of Ocle Pychard and Marston, Herefordshire. Citing: Strong, George (1848) The Heraldry of Herefordshire: Being a Collection of the Armorial Bearings of Families Which Have Been Seated in the County at Various Periods Down to the Present Time., London: Churton Press Wikimedia.
4. ↑ The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1634. Michael Powell Siddons. Publications of the Harleian Society. New Series, Vol. 15, 2002, p 77 Baskerville of Eardisley Pedigree.
5. ↑ The Visitations of Hampshire. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LXIV, 1913, Baskerville Pedigree p 55 Internet Archive.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} The Heraldry of the Whitney Family. By William A Whitney Whitney.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Melville, Henry, The Ancestry of John Whitney. New York: De Vinne Press, 1896 Link.
8. ↑ Wiltshire. Topographical Collections of John Aubrey F.R.S. AD 1659-1670. Corrected and Enlarged by John Edward Jackson. Published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Devizes, 1862, pp 343-344 and Arms in the Appendix Internet Archive.
9. ↑ Monument of Sir Mark Steward at Ely Cathedral Wikimedia.
10. ↑ Arms of Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet, at Cranworth Link.
11. ↑ 'Kentchurch', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 1, South west (London, 1931), pp. 153-155. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol1/pp153-155 [accessed 11 August 2021].
12. ↑ Burke, J. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I, 1836, p 88 Mynors Google Books.
13. ↑ 'Notes to the diary: 1561', in The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, 1550-1563, ed. J G Nichols (London, 1848), pp. 384-388 BHO see p 386 Internet Archive.
14. ↑ Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the Year 1623. Edited by Grazebrook G and Rylands JP 1889. Part II. The Publications of the Harleian Society Vol 29. Owen Pedigree pp 387-388 Internet Archive.
15. ↑ Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the Year 1623. Part I. Edited by Grazebrook G and Rylands J P. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol 29, 1889, p 174 Internet Archive.
16. ↑ Genealogical Office Manuscripts Collection. National Library of Ireland, Department of Manuscripts; GO MS 103 Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. A; 1698-1800, p 18 NLI.
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1} Middlesex Pedigrees, as Collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian Ms. No. 1551. Edited by Sir George John Armytage, Bart. The Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. LXV, 1914, p 41 Internet Archive.
18. ↑ Wiltshire Notes and Queries. Vol VIII, 1914-1916, pp 43-46 Internet Archive.
19. ↑ The Lytes of Lytescary. By H C Maxwell-Lyte. Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1892, Part II, p 70, 75 and 89 pdf.
20. ↑ Heraldic Glass from Lytescary, Co. Somerset. By H Maxwell-Lyte. The Ancestor. Number 1, April 1902, pp 104-111 (see p 109) Internet Archive.
21. ↑ Coats of Arms Henry Lyte (b.1597) and his wife Constance Baskerville National Trust.
22. ↑ ^{22.0 22.1} Powell Roll c 1348 Wappenwiki.
23. ↑ ^{23.0 23.1 23.2} Ancient Rolls of Arms. Charles' Roll of the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. Armytage G J (Ed.). 1869. Coats 42, 526 and 552 Google Books.
24. ↑ Some feudal coats of arms from heraldic rolls 1298-1418, illustrated with 830 zinco etchings from effigies, brasses and coats of arms. By Foster, J. 1902, p 13 Internet Archive.
25. ↑ 'Armorial', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3, North West (London, 1934), p. 220. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3/p220 [accessed 6 July 2022].
26. ↑ 'Armorial Index', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), pp. 397-414. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp397-414 [accessed 5 July 2022].
27. ↑ List of Cornish Arms Link.
28. ↑ ^{28.0 28.1} Burke, J and Burke, J B. Heraldic Illustrations. 1845, Plate LXX:X Internet Archive.
29. ↑ Arms of Brydges Wikimedia.
30. ↑ Arms of Bodenham Wikimedia.
31. ↑ Some feudal coats of arms from heraldic rolls 1298-1418, illustrated with 830 zinco etchings from effigies, brasses and coats of arms. By Foster, J. 1902, p 27 Internet Archive.
32. ↑ Some feudal coats of arms from heraldic rolls 1298-1418, illustrated with 830 zinco etchings from effigies, brasses and coats of arms. By Foster, J. 1902, p 151 Internet Archive.
33. ↑ Arms of Audley Wikimedia.
34. ↑ The Visitation of Herefordshire 1569. Weaver, F W (Ed.), 1886. apHarry or Parry of Poston in Vowchurch Pedigree pp 3-5 Internet Archive.
35. ↑ Harry, John ap (d.1420), of Poston in Vowchurch, Herefs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 HOP.
36. ↑ Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families Link.
37. ↑ 'Armorial', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 1, South west (London, 1931), p. 256. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol1/p256 [accessed 7 July 2022].
38. ↑ The Heraldry of Herefordshire Link.
39. ↑ The Heraldry of Herefordshire Link.
40. ↑ Arms of Paveley Wikimedia.
41. ↑ Arms of Devereux Wikimedia.
42. ↑ Clemmensen, S. The English in the Golden Fleece Group of Armorials. The Coat of Arms. Third Series, Vol II, 2006, Part I, p 42 pdf.

See also:

• Strong, George (1848) The Heraldry of Herefordshire: Being a Collection of the Armorial Bearings of Families Which Have Been Seated in the County at Various Periods Down to the Present Time. Together with the Commission of the Peace for the Year 1847, &c. Adapted to Form a Supplement to Duncumb's County History.
• Milbourne & Baskerville discrepancies & the Verdon inheritance. Soc. Gen. Medieval Post 2002 SGM.