SHROPSHIRE & Shrewsbury

Connections C16th
AML   found

1. C 1/695/22 Description: Short title: Arthur v Thornes.

Plaintiffs: Thomas Arthur, esquire, son and heir of John Arthur.

Defendants: Robert (Roger) Thornes, gentleman, Richard Mytton and nine others, bailiffs of Shrewsbury.

Subject: Issues and profits of messuages, shops, garden, land, and rent in Shrewsbury, taken by defendants at the instance of Antony Rawly, esquire, and Edward Rawly, gentleman. Shropshire

Date: 1532-1538 Held by: The National Archives, Kew

ALBERBURY PARISH REGISTER. The Church was connected with the courtyard of the small ruined castle of the Fitzwarines by a flying buttress.

About two miles from the Church stands the White Abbey, long ago turned into a domestic dwelling; but some fine 13th century vaulting, the traces of a large east window and piscina, and an Early English doorway still exist. The history of its foundation by Fulk Fitzwarine in the time of King John is so quaintly told by a troubadour in the " Gestes of the Fitzwarines " that it may be worth recording here:-

"Fulk bethought him that he had greatly sinned against God as by slaughter of people and other great offences and in remission of his sins founded a Priory (in the honor of our Lady St. Mary of the Order of Grandmont) near Alberbury, in a wood on the river Severn, and it is called New Abbey ... and he saw in his chamber so great a light that it was wonderful ... and after that light Fulk could never see more, but was blind all his days This Fulk remained seven years blind and suffered well his penance. Lady Clarice, his wife, died and was buried at the New Abbey: after whose death Fulk lived but a year and died at White-town (Whittington), and in great honor was he interred at the New Abbey; on whose soul may God have mercy. Near the altar lies the body. God have mercy on us all alive and dead, Amen." In the year 1858, the east end at the Abbey was altered by its owners, All Souls College, and under the altar were found five skeletons; they were taken up and buried in the orchard.

Alberbury in Shropshire  is partially over the Welsh Border, 9 miles west of Shrewsbury.

Formerly a Royal Manor,- in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, a dwelling place of the warlike family of Fitzwarine, Alberbury is said by the Antiquary Evan "to have a history of surpassing interest to those who would study the principles and workings of the feudal system".

The original Saxon Church was collegiate and dedicated to St. Michael. It now consists of a fine ancient Nave, a Chancel rebuilt in the middle of 19th century, a saddle-back fortress Tower on the north of Nave, and a 14th century Chapel (tithe free) on the south side belonging to the Leighton family

Domesday is REALLY Interesting
Alberbury at that time was  Bausley

Lord in 1066: Siward ( the fat). 

1068 held by Roger son of Corbet -  2 households occupied by  2 welshmen with  1 plough team worth 2/shillings

Bausley  has all kinds of interesting connections causing me wonder if the 16th C Pomeroy Powmery's in Shrewsbury area connect to the armorial tree.

There is a direct connection between Corbet in Shropshire and  Tremerton Castle &   Pomeroy;'s in C14th.

- Isabella  de Valletort  Born about 1203 in Shropshire, daughter of Roger  de Valletort and Alesia  de Valletort. Married Thomas Corbet 

sibling to  Roy Valletort [half brother), Reginald   de Valletort,  Ralph  de Valletort  & Joan de Valletort    wife of Henry Baron Pomeroy 

A long Running Court Case in 1316

Peter Corbet & Henry Pomeroy pursued a court case in 1316 for a moiety of the Castle of Tremerton

Fitzwarine is interesting Ive heard of Fulk Fitzwarine somewhere else..... & in my database I find that COLE had a connection 

Sir William COLE of Tamar, knt, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry BEAUPELL, knt. had in turn as son and heir, Sir John COLE, knt (Agincourt), who married Agnes, daughter of Sir FITZWARINE, knt, and had issue, four sons:

Other  Families  which became part of the Cole succession included:  Archdeacon (Erkedne), Fitzwarine, Weston, Bodrugan, Beaupell, de la Pomeroy; 

The son and heir of Roger Cole was John  who, in 1324, was described as John COLE de Tamer, Man-at-Arms, attending the Great Council at Westminster.

By 1341, he was possessed of a variety of manors in both Devon and Cornwall, and left as son and heir, Sir John COLE, knight, of Nythway, in the parish of Brixham.

In 1380 he was knighted and married Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas BODRUGAN, knt, by whom he had issue:
Sir William COLE of Tamar, had four sons:

Sir Adam COLE, knt, his heir, who succeeded at Uptamer and Nythway, who married married twice (

John COLE, who married Jane, daughter of Robert MERYOT of Devon

William COLE, who married ????

Robert COLE,

Margaret Pomeroy daughter of Sir Henry Pomeroy married Adam Cole and had a son John who with Thomas Pomeroy together they harried  Sir Edward Pomeroiy,  the  rightful heir to the barony , invading  his castle home at Tregony they locked up his wife Margaret Beville Lady Pomeroy for three days & according to legend  defenestrated Sir Edward  - they threw  him out of a window of his own the castle !

Their daughter Margaret Cole was grandmother of Sir Francis Drake (B circa 1540, Died: 28 Jan 1596) and her father John was grandfather of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Joan Durnford who married into the Egdecumbe family and was mother of Joanna who married Sir Thomas Pomeroy

Tremerton Castle in SALTASH  Cornwall seen above left was established  by Robert, Count of Mortain soon after the Norman Conquest.[2]  From the Conquest until 1270, the rights for the ferry from Saltash Passage on the Plymouth side of the River Tamar to Saltash belonged to the Valletort family. When Roger de Valletort sold Trematon Castle and manor to Richard Earl of Cornwall, the rent was paid to the Earl's bailiff. In the thirteenth century, this amounted to nearly seven pounds sterling.

 Reginald Valletort was born in Dénestanville in the Duchy of Normandy, an illegitimate son of King Henry I (1100–1135) by his mistress Sybilla Corbet  a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Corbet, lord of the manor of Alcester, Warwickshire, who was at some time the wife of "Herbert the King's Chamberlain".
His sister Rohesia Corbet married the 1st of 10 sequential Henry Pomeroy's bringing Ridwarie  in Cornwall as part of her Dowry

 His grandson in the reign of Henry II (1216 to 1272 ) the 4th Henry Pomeroy  married Joan, daughter of Reginald Valletort & sister of Roger de Valletort, bringing the manor of Harberton in Devon as part of her dowry

The Manor and Castle of Trematon was the cause of a court case on 16 February 1270.

. Richard Plantagenet (created Earl of Cornwall 1226), the son of King John of England, was the claimant and Roger de Valle Torta the opponent regarding this land, 60½ knights fees in Devon and Cornwall, and the Manor of Calstock. The land was said to be the right of the said king as those which he had by Roger's gift.

Following the endorsement of this foot of fine it says: And Henry de la Pomerai and Peter Corbet put in their claim. They did not agree with the decision and   lodged notice of their rights to a share of  the lands. It was an argument was to continue for three generations..

Additional details appear in the Fine Rolls Vol. 1 1272-1307 order: In 1274, Thomas  Corbet  died in 1300 & the  executors of his WILL were ordered to deliver to his son & heir Peter Corbet,  the lands which had belonged to his father. Peter Corbet born in 1298 was still a baby when his father died . Peter's first wife was Joan Mortimer.

A page note in the Feet of Fines confirms that Peter Corbet was the grandson of Isabella Corbet (formerly Valletort). This Peter, in 1315, was to petition Parliament for the recovery of the Trematon estate, alleging that when Roger de Valletort made a deed of gift in favour of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, he was non compos mentis. ( Insane) 

 Shropshire Corbets

Roger Corbet was the third son of  t he. Sir Robert Corbet (died 1375) of Moreton Corbet  The Corbets of Moreton Corbet were descended from the Corbet family of Caus Castle, who had been important landowners in the Welsh Marches from the time of William the Conqueror.

• The senior line of the Corbets at Caus had petered out in 1347 and the properties passed to Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford The cadet branch made their home at Moreton Corbet Castle, then a significant stronghold in north Shropshire.

• Roger Corbet had two older brothers, Thomas and Fulk, as well as a younger brother, John, and a sister, Joan. 

• He inherited most of the family estates only because of a complex series of arrangements made by his parents. As the eldest son, Thomas, predeceased his parents, they were concerned to keep the estates in the Corbet family by preventing their going to Elizabeth, Thomas's daughter, who had married Sir John Ipstones,  Later he was twice elected MP for Staffordshire..

• They initiated a series of transactions, some involving their daughters, intended to put most of the estates intail, and favouring in particular Fulk and Roger . However, some of the provisions were mutually-contradictory, generating the disputes Roger pursued in the 1380s and 1390s. In fact, litigation began even before the death of Sir Robert. In 1374 Elizabeth and Ipstones went to the Court of Common Pleas to try to get possession of the manor of Braunstone in Leicestershire, which had been given to Thomas Erdington, the son of Roger's sister, Margaret.

Isabella Valletort  Born about 1203 in Shropshire,   Daughter of Roger  Valletort and Alesia  de Valletort wife of  Thomas Corbet — married 1218 in Caus, Shropshire, Eng  sister to  Roy Valletort [half brother , Reginald    Valletort,   Ralph Valletort. &   Joan Valletort wife of Henry Baron Pomeroy , 

The  Pomeroy & Corbet court action of 1305

Peter Corbet and Henry de la Pomeroy   by right of their wives petitioned Parliament for the revision of a deed alleging that the nephew of Roger de Valletort, who was recorded as insane for having, before his death circa 1275,  sold  the feudal barony of Tremerton for £ 100 which In 1166,  comprised 59 knight's fees, thus about 59 separate manors.
What was left of the estates eventually found its way to the descendants of two daughters of Ralph  de Vautort . Descendants  of Joel de Vautort,  a younger son of Reginald  de Vautort   held lands in Somerset centred on the manor of Currypool in Spaxton until about 1332

PONTESBURY is 7½ miles S.W. of Shrewsbury,  inhabitants  chiefly engaged in the coal, lime, and lead mills.

"SHIPTON, in the hundred of Munslow,  Salop, 6½ miles S.W. of Much-Wenlock, with mainly  agricultural occupations

Aldersley is on the flood plains of the river Severn on the Welsh Borders and  once had a small Marcher castle. It's one of those neat well cared for villages obviously dominated by the huge estate at its heart which has been owned by the  Leighton  family for 700 years.

nearby is an area spelled BAUsley on 19th C maps - There are a great many quarries in the area

Thomas Pamoore married 5 June 1592 at Worthen in Shopshire to Mgar Betchfelf (? Margaret Betchfield ) FMP

Richard Powmere Marriage  24 Sep 1594 Anglican Marriage  in Condover  to Katheryn  Mynsterley in county of Shropshire

Archive reference P81/A/1/1 Page 33 Record set Shropshire Marriages

Katheryn Mynsterley Bb 25 May 1558 at Chelmarsh father Thomas  18 miles from Condover

I noticed that there is a place called Minsterley on the map just south west of Pontesbury.

Minsterley Hall, a Grade II* listed house built in 1581, lies on the edge of the village. Formerly the Shropshire seat of the Marquess of Bath, the house was greatly extended in 1653 for Sir Henry Frederick Thynne,

CONDOVER, a parish in the hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 4 miles S.W. of Shrewsbury with townships and hamlets of Bayston Hill, Boreton, Chatford, High and Low Condover, Dorrington, Lyth, Ryton, Westley, and Wheathall

1613 -20th May  Richard Pamore son of Richard Pomere and his wife alice was Regenarate ( baptised )

Shipton Hall ( seen below) has an estate with a grand Elizabethan house including  a huge stable block , magnificent barns & adjacent church; evidently a substantial estate which was the seat of the Mytton family until it passed by  marriage to the Samuel More family, of Mayflower pilgrims fame, in 1795

At Domesday Alderbury was held by Roger  son of CORBET who had 37 manors all in Shropshire  from the tenant in chief  was Roger Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury who held most of the land in the area who was father of  William was the son of Robert, Count of Mortain, the half-brother of William I of England by Maud de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury 

FMP BMDs 

Pamoore Jocosta a widow 1544 Married to William Jorden at Shipton, Shropshire, 

Pamore Alice  1547 wife of William Pamore  buried Oct 1547 Shipton

Pamoore Thomas  1552 Bb son of William in  Shipton, Shropshire, 

Pamoore Anna 1579  Burial wife of William in Shipton

Pamoore Elizabeth 1548  Married to Thomas Tylor at Shipton, Salop

POMEROY  William  1562  Married Anne Lake at Sutton Maddock, Salop
Shipton is 13 miles south of Shrewsbury
Alderbury is about 20 miles away to the north west

Pamoore Edward 1564  Married Elizabeth Ladicot at Munslow, Salop 

Pamoore Margareta 1573  Married Robert Lewes alias Vaha atShipton, 

Pamore John 1572  Married  Joyce Pennyfather in Claverley, Salop  

Pamore George 1595  Married Alice Cardington at Diddlebury

Pamore Roger  1601  Married to Maria Hamons at Lydbury North

Powmore Francis 1630  Married to Wills Gardener in Worthen Salop

BAPTISMS

Pamore Richard 1539  Bb to John & Jouse (Joyse) in Shipton, Salop
(earliest record found so far)

Pamoore Margaret 1548 Bb dau of William in in Shipton, Salop 

Pamoore Thomas 1552  Bb son of Willioma in Shipton Shropshire,

Pamore Joanna 1557  Bb at Pontesbury

Pamore Johannes 1566  Bb at Muslow

Pamoore Richard 1571 Bb son of Edward at Shipton, Shropshir

Pamore Rolanders 1560  Bb son of Richard at Pontsbury

Pamore  Richard  1562  Married Alice Barber at Pontsbury

Pamore Roland 1562 Bb son of Richard at Pontsbury
Powmere Joan 1600 Bb daughter of Richard Pommowe of Dorrington in Condover,a 
large village  6 miles south of Shrewsbury

Pamore Francis 1608 Bb son of Richard

Pamore Anna 1610 Bb dau of Richard in Shipton

Pamore Richard 1613 Bb son of Richard in Shipton, Shropshire, 

Pamoore Richard 1614 Bb son of Richard & Alice at Shipton, 

Pamore Jacosa  1617 Bb dau of Richard & Alice at Shipton

Powmere  Richard 1594 Married Katherine Mynsterly in Condover, Salop
Powmere Roger 1595 Bb son of Richard in Condover, Shropshire,
Powmere Thomas 1597 Bb son of Richard in Condover, Shropshire,

 Pamore Henry  1593 Bb son of Thomas at Worthen

Pamore Brigetta 1614 Bb dau of John in Lydbury North -
3 miles S.E. of Bishop's Castle in Salop

Pamore Francis 1597 Bb son of ? in Worthen

hamlets of Bay stop, Boreton, Chatford, High and Low Condover, Dorrington, Lyth, Ryton, Westley, and Wheathall.  Shropshire,

Pamoore Alicia 1547 Burial wife of William in Shipton, Shrop 

Pamoore Anna 1579 Burial wife of William in Shipton

Pamoore John 1543 Burials Shipton, Shropshire, England

Pamore Richard  1585 Burial Shipton, Shropshire, England

Pamoore Edward  1587 Burial Shipton, Shropshire, Englan

Powmere Maria 22 Oct  1613 Baptised dau of John Powmere de/of Balsey in Alberbury, Shropshire,

Powmere Dorothea 17th May 1614   burial   wife of John Powmere of Balsley in Alberbury, Shropshire

Powmere Johanes 18th May 1614 of Balsley Buried in Alberbury, Salop 

  IGI  has the Transcribed register;  typed in Latin which  confirms the above as does Genuki

https://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/Alberbury.html

Pontesbury Hill  see above has an iron age fort atop it
A rural parish to the southwest of Shrewsbury & contains a number of villages and smaller settlements, including Pontesbury, Pontesford, Plealey, Asterley, Cruckton, Cruckmeole, Arscott, Malehurst, and Habberley. 

Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages, farm houses and farm buildings, a high proportion of which are timber framed, or have timber framed cores, and the earliest of these have cruck construction. 

The other listed buildings include two small country houses, churches and chapels, items in the churchyards, and public houses.

Other research -
DORRINGTON, a township in the parish and hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 7 miles South. of Shrewsbury,on the A49 road & 6 N. of Church Stretton

Situated on a branch of the river Severn, in the neighbourhood of the Lawley, Caradoc, and Longmynd hills.

Condover is the birth place of Thomas Owen, a learned judge, who was educated at Oxford; from whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn, where he became Lent reader to the society, in 1583. In 1590, he was made Serjeant at Law, and afterwards a judge of the Common Pleas. He died in 1598, reports were printed in 1654.

"CONDOVER, a parish in the hundred of Condover, in the county of Salop, 4 miles S.W. of Shrewsbury, 

Bay stop, Boreton, Chatford, High and Low Condover, Dorrington, Lyth, Ryton, Westley, and Wheathall. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, 

The more than forty listed structures in Condover range from six separate early cruck-framed buildings and many black-and-white timbered cottages to the present-day vicarage and several funerary monuments in the churchyard. Of the early half-timbered houses, the most impressive are Church House, the Old School House and the Small House that is now known as Condover Court

https://www.melocki.org.uk/salop/Condover.html#vI

Condover’s most famous son,was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, was Richard Tarlton, a Jester in the Royal Court. It was said that he could ‘undumpish her (the Queen) in a trice.’

Tarlton was a native of pyepits, that area of Condover where the present Condover school now stands.

The Hall of today was built during the reign of Elizabeth I, the manor was acquired in 1586 by Thomas Owen, the eldest son of a Shrewsbury merchant, who had followed a successful legal career and become a member of the Council in the Marches of Wales and a Justice of the Common Pleas.

Condover Hall remained in the hands of the Owen family for many years. In 1804 Nicholas Smyth Owen died.  The estate and the Hall were left to Edward Pemberton, who was Nicholas Smyth Owen’s cousin, who took the name Owen.  He died in 1863 and Condover went to his cousin, Thomas Cholmondley.

Richard Tarlton, or Tarleton, the earliest English comedian of celebrity, was also born at Condover. At what precise period he commenced actor is unknown. He was brought to London, and introduced to court, by a servant of Robert, Earl of Leicester, who found him in a field, keeping his father's swine. The Earl 'highly 'pleased,' says Fuller, 'with his happy unhappy answers,' took him under his patronage.

In 1583, Queen Elizabeth, at the suit of Sir Francis Walsingham, constituted twelve players, who were sworn her servants, allowing them wages and liveries, as grooms of the chamber, (a custom which lasted till Colley Cibber's time,) one of whom, was Tarleton.

Shipton is 13 miles south of Shrewsbury Alderbury is about 20 miles away to the north west

SHIPTON- BHOL

Shipton ('sheep estate') was so called by 1086. In 1272 there was a Little Shipton, but no later reference to it is known. (fn. 19) Shipton township had at least 11 houses in 1540. (fn. 20) Henry Mytton, lord 1688-1731, stopped letting smaller farmhouses when they fell vacant but dwellings remained in view of the Hall across the road until they were demolished in the later 18th century.

In the 19th century Shipton village consisted of the Hall, the Grange, the Bull's Head, and a few old cottages; (fn. 23) buildings were of stone or stone and timber framing. Shipton Hall Cottages (two) were added in 1937, Shipton Grange Cottages (two) in 1946, and six council houses c. 1956. (fn. 24) New House, an isolated farm at the parish's southern tip, was standing in the 17th century. (fn. 25) Barn farm (c. 118 a.) was amalgamated with it in the 1790s; its isolated house, later represented by Upper Barn, stood near Mogg Forest west of Shipton village.

Shipton was probably among the lands by the river Corve that Merchelm and Mildfrith gave to their half-sister St. Mildburg before 704. (fn. 71) In 1066 and 1086 Shipton belonged to St. Mildburg's church of Wenlock, and it remained with Wenlock priory until the house surrendered to the Crown in 1540. (fn. 72) By 1344, and probably by 1334, it was in the priory's manor of Oxenbold, (fn. 73) which was renamed Shipton after 1522. (fn. 74)

The hall was built in 1596 by John Lutwyche
My interest in the Big Houses- appart from the occasional medieval architectural gem  arises from the fact that where there was a large estate there was employment & houses for men with variety of skills

The Crown dismembered the  manor in the 1540s; the remnant, called Shipton manor, was granted in 1548 to Sir Thomas Palmer who was attainted for Treason in 1553
( his heirs thereby losing everything )  His testimony was crucial in the final downfall of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset in 1551–1552. Palmer was executed for his support of Lady Jane Grey in the succession crisis of 1553. The Crown sold it in 1557 to Thomas Reve and Anthony Rotsey, who immediately conveyed it to John Swyfte.
Swyfte sold it in 1560 to Edward Gilbert who sold it next year to John Molyneux. who sold it to John Lutwyche in 1580. Lutwych died without issue, in 1615 leaving it to his kinsman Edward Mytton of Worcester (d. 1620), and it descended through that family until 1830

A Curious Arrangement 

Larden Hall,  Richard More of Nether Larden in 1463 settled the manor house on his grandson Richard More, also of Nether Larden. Richard More's brother William had lands there by 1489, and the estate passed from father to son, through William's son Edward (d. c. 1554), to Thomas (d. 1567),  and Jasper, at whose death in 1614 Larden passed to his kinsman and son-in-law Samuel More of Linley.

 
In 1622 Samuel More after divorcing  Jasper's daughter consigned her bastard children to the Mayflower !