Powley
Edward B Powley & The House of de La Pomerai, the Annals of the Pomerai Family
published in 1944 by Hodder and Stoughton
published in 1944 by Hodder and Stoughton
all I have is few pages of photocopy sent to me long ago this is the earliest bit
page 74
Henry de la Pomerai 8th Henry Baron Pomeroy 1st wife Joanna Moels.2nd wife Elizabeth Courtenay of the cadet Courtenay line at Powderham died 1374 ; age 14 when his father died in 1305 father Henry mother Amica de Camville; Presented at the chuch in Whitstone in the right of his wife Eliz Courtenay 1356 Renewed the Valtort suit claiming amoiety of tremerton and the lands of Valetort in 1316 ; did homage on 14 sept 1373 to the Bishop of Exeter for lands at Chudleigh ( Hennock 3 miles W.N.W. of Chudleigh )
Hennock https://www.hennock.org.uk/hennock_history_early.html
8th Baron Henry & his wife Joan Moels had 5 sons for who they created a successive entail
Heir Henry & his wife Emmot followed by2nd son Willaim
Then 3rd son Nicholas de Pomeroy, Lord of Dartmouth , Sheriff of Devon, also called Nicholas of Tewkesbury, a Merchant & ship owner who traded supplies of corn & victuals to the army , sailing up the east coast of England to Berwick on Tweed , from Kings Tamerton in the Tamar estuary at Plymouth along the south coast to Dartmouth then to Topsham on the Exe on, onward to Portsmouth along the south coast & round into the Thames Estuary at Faversham then into the North Sea , up the east coast to Dunwich, north of the Thames estuary, then to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk with furthest point on the east coast at Berwick on Tweed on English border with Scotland .
4th son John who had a son Nicholas who was a prebendary of Glasney College the ecclesiastic centre at Penryn in Cornwall.
5th son Sir Thomas Pomeroy , a Kings Knight. His wife was Johan and their son William after 1372 ,gave them a grandson, Edward , who became next in line of succession for the Pomeroy barony. His farger William died before Sir Henry and his son Edward eas heir presumptive & nominated by the next baron Sir John. This was until it was usurped by Thomas Pomeroy Esq son of Robert of the Cadet Line at Smallridge & Upottery in east Devon.
In 1388 Thomas made a hurried and evidently surreptitious marriage without the king's licence to the co- heir of Pomeroy barony the wealthy twice widowed Joanna Chudleigh / St Aubyn/ De Bryan . Thomas Pomeroy was forgiven and then knighted in 1400 but the vicar was fined .
William de la Pomerai was brother to Thomas the sons of Robert of Bockerell Upottery & Smallbridge the cadet line in east Devon.
William was a Queen's Esquire 1417 to Queen Joan of Navarre, wife of Henry IV of England (m. 1403–1413), widow of John IV, Duke of Brittany (m. 1386) Joan and Henry had no children .Her stepson was the next king , Henry V. (1413-1422)
In 1405 Thomas & William Pomeroy and the chaplain, the Membury Manor house having a chapel by that time, surrendered the Manor House to the prior of Goldclyve in Newport in Monmouthshire ( Patent Rolls 1405 & Close Rolls )
William & his wife had a licence to celebrate mass for a year at their oratories at Schullestone and Deaone / Deudon / Dewdon .
https://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/269A/PO.
This is seems to be the same William who married Alice FitzRafe in about 1457A Sir William Pomeroy married Alice FitzRaf , in Cambridgeshire ( She is unnamed int the pedigree ,but her sister Elizabeth married a Chamberlain in 1457 in Kingston, Cambridgeshire. There are Whalesboroughs in the Fitz Rafe pedigree -
She turned out to be Alice Fitz Rafe granddaughter of Johanna Ralegh the widow of Whalesborough who married Sir Thomas Pomeroy. The man who in 1388 married Joanna Chudleigh & took the Pomeroy barony from its rightful heir Edward .
After Johane Chudleigh died in 1422 Thomas made a 2nd marriage soon after, his 2nd wife was Johanna Ralegh widow Whalesborough; Thomas died 1426 & his widow died in 1435 & was buried at Greyfriars , Newgate. Then I noted this
Johanna Ralegh , whose 1st husband was Sir John Whalesborough had 2 Whalesborough Daughters. The daughters were buried in the same place as their mother Anne Molyns and Alice who married Sir John FitzRafe their son married Maud Bayard and their daughter was Alice FitzRalf who became wife of William Pomeroy -she was therefore Joanna Ralegh Whalesborough Pomeroy's granddaughter
Dewdon Manor is in Widecombe connects to Mallett family
https://www.mallettfamilyhistory.org/tng/mfh-
Modbury is close to Holbeton; just to the north is Shirlstone Manor now home of the Devon Rural Archive; a place with very ancient pre Roman origins.
Dewdon & Jordon Manor are mentioned together in Heritage Gateway & are close together on the high moor; & Jordon is a farmhouse with a huge pond - often a sign of a monastic grange , whilst Dewdon has remnants with postholes and foundations but not longer has a dwelling
PDF of nearby Jordon Manor at foot of page Historic England Entry
the whole area is Awash with images and ancient history!! https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/hutholes.htm
High moor location
Dartmoor Nestled between the bosom of Rowden Ball and Dunstone Down is the ‘deserted medieval village’ of what today is known as ‘Hutholes. The term ‘village’ is probably doing the settlement huge injustice as once it was an ancient manor dating way back into the long-lost mists of time.
The consensus of opinion tends to be that Hutholes was the old manor of Dewdon which originally appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Depdona. Firstly the place-name, Hutholes was at one time one the field name in which the settlement lies. In 1963 a report on the ‘Abandoned medieval sites in Widecombe-in-the-Moor’ was published in that year’s Transactions of the Devonshire Association.
It noted; “South Rowden or Hotholes – The small deserted village lies in an acre of waste ground known as Old Walls… this was the site of a holding known as South Rowden…” The report then goes on to say; “As the buildings are all comparatively small, this may have been a villein’s settlement near the manor of Dewdon in which it lies. This site is to be surveyed in the near future and an excavation arranged to obtain dating for its period.”.........see link
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.5669076,-3.8475129,2770m/data=!3m1!1e3 Widecombe on Moor close by here
Geoffrey de la Pomerai This is a different man to the 2nd son of the 3rd Baron Henry Pomeroy by his wife Alice de Vere who held Buckerell & Upottery etc in East Devon. His dates - Under age (21) in 1208; paid a fee/rent for Tale in 21 Hen III 1237 and Upottery & Buckerell around 1247
135 odd years later, in 1383 , in Somerton in Somerset, this Geoffrey de Pomerai was one of the mainprisors of £50 for John Babecary a Bristol Merchant harshly imprisoned in 1383- A man of Standing .
( mainprisors were people into whose custody an imprisoned person could be released, after which they would then have the responsibility of producing that person to appear to face charges. Being released on mainprise was similar to being out on bail.)
http://www.somerton.co.uk/local-history/somerton-manor/
DRO 3799M-0/ET/16 [undated ] 3799M-0/ET/16/1 1400
Contents: Power of attorney
1. John of la Pomeray knt., and Johane his wife
2. John Bastard the younger, John Somer of Exeter and John Gatecombe
To deliver seisin to: 3. Thomas Bampfeld
Premises: all 1.'s messuages, lands and tenements in Poltimore in Devon, and in Weston in Somerset
Date: Wednesday, on the morrow of the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 1 Henry IV
DRO 3799M-0/ET/16/2 1400
Contents: Receipt
1. John of la Pomeray knt., and Johane his wife
2. Thomas Bampfeld
Twelve marks in payment of all arrearages of an annual rent from lands and tenements in Poltimore in Devon and in Weston in Somerset, payable during the life of Johane
Date: Monday after the Octave of St Michael the Archangel, 2 Henry IV
Seals: fragment of armorial seal of John of la Pomeray; fragment, shield bearing a lion rampant and three bends sinister
bends are diagonal stripes - sinister I think is left or is it indicative of illegitimacy ?
OR could this refers to John 4th son - 3rd after the heir of the 5 sons of 8th Baron Henry & his Moels wife
except the Moels crest seen here is not bends, sinister or otherwise
Thomas de la Pomerai 1388 at death held Alleton Sutton manor in Yardlestone in Tiverton & in Frome Braunch in Frome Somerset - 25 miles from Somerton 12 miles S. of Bath, 24 S.E. of Bristol
Could be 5th son of Henry & Moels born around 1335; Kings Knight , father of William & grandfather of Baron Edward Pomeroy who married Margaret Beviile in about 1403 .
took some finding - TDA - 1903 https://archive.org/details/reportandtransa14artgoog/page/n300/mode/2up
Alleton Sutton manor in Yardlestone was Yadlestane - Henry of Yadlestone Alleton
Domesday - Aeidestan 182 acres held by Ralph under (half brothers) William Capra and Ranulph Pomeroy
[1198] Henry de Yaldestane holds in Yaldestanb [Helleston in Feudal Aids, p. 365; Alleston, ibid., pp. 427, 488; Hodelston, Trans, xxx. 398; Yolleston in A,-D. Inq. 2 Ric. II. No. 57, p. 14 (3137); i.e. Yardleston in Tiverton; Testay 820, p. 182b, says | fee] of William de la Lund lord of Braneis of the Honour of Braneis.
In Domesday Aeidestan (W. 866, p. 706), 182 acres, value 7s. 6rf., held by Ralph, a retainer under William Capra and Ralph de Pomeray.
In 1166 {Lib, Nig,, p. 122) William de Hiauleston held 1 fee of William de Tracey, viz. \ fee in Combe (Testa, 779, p. 182b) and \ fee in Yalderstane {Testa, 820). In 1303 it was held by Henry de HeUeston
\Fe\(dal Aids, p. 365); in 1346 by John de Ralegh, of Beaudeport in Bishop's Nymton {iUd,, p. 427) ;
in 1428 held by the heir of John Syntabyn (St. Aubyn, ibid,, p. 488).
AJP NOTE John St Aubyn was son of Joanna Chudleigh later Pomeroy by her 1st husband John St Aubyn their son John married Catherine Challons and their granddaughter was Joanna St AUbyn heir to her grandmother Joanna Chudleigh Pomeroy's ;
Joanna St Aubyn was married age 17 to Otto Bodrigan in 1428 & 2nd marriage to William Denys ;
her sister Margaret age 13 married off to Reginald Tretherff 1428
Margaret de la Pomerai widow of Richard 1384 in her widowhood gave her son William Pote and his heirs by his wife Joanna, the dau of Richard Cleridon, land at Goddecott /Gunnacott in the manor of Clawton in Devon at a rental fee of 6s/0 annually
Clawton is 4 miles from Holsworthy
BHOL. Domesday & the manor of Clawton was held in demesne by Joel de Totneis.(Totnes) Upon his banishment it was given to Roger Novant: from the Novants it passed by sale to Chudleigh, and from them to Sir John Hele, Serjeant at law.
POTE of Clawton were Armigers - Az., a chevron engrailed cotised Arg., between three doves of the second.
Visitations Devon page 625 but starts 200 years too late !
Heritage Gateway https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV2741&resourceID=104
- Gunnacott, although not the sub-manor of Clawton, is an important part of the parish, as the home of the Pote family. A very old building with many examples of early architecture.
The first written record of Gunnacott occurs as a payment to the crown by Richard Pote of Gunnacott in 1332. (This would be Margaret's husband )
The present 'new' building seem to have been built between 1450 and 1550 and remained in the Pote family till 1691.
whose daughter was she I wonder ? was she a sister of the 5 sons of Baron Sir Henry Pomeroy & his Moels wife?
A 16th century memorial to John Pote of Gunnacott is in the floor of the vestry.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002213917&view=1up&seq=625&q1=Pote
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Clawton/Clawton numerous Potes but no Pomeroys
Anna de la Pomerai 1397 held at her death no land or tenement in Devonshire - who was she I wonder?
was she possibly a daughter who died before her father Baron Sir John wife Joanna de Merton, who died without living issue in 1416?