Lyn & Lynton North Devon


LYNTON at Domesday was held by William the goat/ William Chivre / Capra. Ranulphs half brother

Consisted of  [East and West] Ilkerton; Lynton. with13 villagers. 1 smallholder. 12 slaves. 

12 ploughlands. 5 lord's plough teams. 7 men's plough teams. : 0.5 lord's lands. . 5 leagues of Pasture 2 furlongs mixed measures& 7 furlongs of Woodland   with  58 cattle. 22 pigs. 200 sheep. 75 goats. 72 wild mares. Worth 7 pounds in 1086;

 1 pound 15 shillings  when acquired by Tenant-in-chief in 1086: William the goat. Lord in 1086: William the goat.  & half brother of Ranulph de Pomerai. 

https://opendomesday.org/book/devon/29/

West Lyn on the river Lyn near Lynbridge  just south of Lynton  in North Devon,  with the hamlet of Cheriton just south of Lynton .
 this maybe the manor that went by (fine) fee in 1206 to Geoffrey de la Pomerai  2nd son of the 2nd Baron Henry Pomeroy .

 
 LYNTON on the river Lyn at Domesday was held by William the goat/ William Chivre / Capra. Ranulphs half brother.



Parkham, 2 messuages and 1 carucate, held by Henry Fullford as 1/3 fee. (Husbandman)

Lyn  held by Earl Courtenay n 1422-1 messuage and 1 ferling, held by Walter Albard and Juliana Knyth as 1/40 fee. 

 

30 miles north is West Lyn

Just south of Lynton   https://visitlyntonandlynmouth.com/

A parish in Shirlwell Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and Diocese of Exeter ; Lynbridge  on the river Lyn  - the settlement of West Lyne has the site of  a Manor House  & a Manor Farm   & Lower East Lyn has Manor House  remains 


Close by to the south is  Cheriton 

Geoffrey Pomeroy  in the reign of John 1199-1216 received Clistwick Brandon( now Clist St George )  which is 4 miles from Exeter  close to the port of Topsham  he also got  Ceriton or Cheriton 

Lynbridge is about 30 miles from Parkham village in Mid Devon near Bideford & Barnstaple

found 2017

Devon Record Office: Colyton 3799M-0/ET/9 [n.d.] Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/9/1 1364

Contents: Grant

1. Henry of la POMEROY the younger, knt., and Emmot his wife

2. Robert Adelard

Premises: all Pomeroy’s land, meadow and pasture in Yerdbury during the life of Emmot

Rent: 43/4d Witnesses: [ ] Damorle, William Hor., Richard Benet

Date Monday before the feast of St Peter ad Vincula, 38 Edward III (1327 -1377 - 50 years )

 

and
1422  -1 messuage and 1 ferling, held by Walter Albard  (?Adelard) and Juliana Knyth as 1/40 fee at Lyn in Parkham parish held by Earl Courtenay 


Yardbury is near Colyton in East Devon.

 

Emmot gave Baron Henry Pomeroy at least 3 children ; an heir, John, who married  Johanna daughter of Richard Merton & widow of Baumfeld who were childless ; they had 2 daughters,   Johanna who married James Chudleigh & Margaret who married Adam Cole .
 The children of these  sisters were co-heirs, Joanna Chudlegh & John Cole .  Joanna Chudleigh  already twice a widow , in 1388  married Thomas Pomeroy Esq  son of Robert of Smallbridge & Upottery . they died childless by 1426.
After his marriage in 1388 Thomas with John Cole set about wresting the barony away from the rightful heir , Edward, by various dubious means. They succeeded until Thomas Pomeroy died childless in 1426. At which time the rightful heir , Edward Pomeroy sheriff of Devon  with his wife Margaret Beville, took the barony.  
Edward was the grandson of  SirThomas , a kings knight, by  his wife Johane . ( Thomas was 5th of 5 sons, mentioned in Visitations , of Baron Henry by his 1st wife Joanna Moels )  Son William  born before 1372
A 1372 a record shows that Thomas named his wife as Johane and his son as William.

Thomas  is going to a journey for the king. If he returns from the journey he is to hold the premises as before. If he dies on the journey before he can re-enter the premises, then 2. are to hold them for Johane his wife, William his son, and the heirs of the body of William. For default of such issue, the premises are to remain to the heirs of the body of 1., and for default, to Nichol, brother of 1. and the heirs of his body. If Nichol has no heirs of the body, the premises remain to William, brother of Nichol and the heirs of his body, and for default, with remainder to the right heirs of Dateed Wednesday next before the feast of St Laurence, 46 Edward III. 1373


 married and had at least one child , Edward,  who carried on the line of succession. 
Married in 1403  by 1426  they had a family ;  Edward who died young , 2nd son Henry the next heir ,  Nicholas , Richard, a soldier  and a daughter  or two.   
Andrew  of Collaton Manor was a son of Nicholas .

Henry Pomeroy the 10th of that name with his 1st wife Alice dau of John Ralegh , took barony  on his fathers death in 1446  

BHOL

Yardbury belonged, soon after the Conquest, to the ancient family of Bauceyn, whose heiress married Sir Richard Huish. From Huish it passed by successive female heirs to Hawley and Coplestone. 

Sir William Pole purchased this estate of the Coplestones, and sold it to William Westofer, Esq., who died in 1622: his heiress married William Drake, Esq., younger son of the Drakes of Ash, whose descendant, Francis Horatio Nelson Drake, Esq., of Wells, is the present proprietor. 

Yardbury, now a farm-house, was for some generations the seat of this branch of the Drakes. Stowford was the property and residence of a family of that name, whose heiress married Walrond in the reign of Edward I.

Sir William Pole's father purchased it of the Walronds. At a later period it was in the Marwoods, and is now the property of James Marwood Elton, Esq., of Green way, whose mother was one of the co-heiresses of that family. Nore was, for several descents, in the family of Sticklinch, from which it passed to Keleway. It was purchased of the heirs of the latter by the Poles, who had purchased also Hedhayne, which belonged to the Frankcheneys. 

Both these estates belong to Sir W. T. Pole, Bart. A large house in Colyton, which had been some time a seat of the family of Yonge, was conveyed by the late Sir George Yonge, to Sir John De la Pole, in exchange for lands in Tallaton. It was some time the residence of Sir W. T. Pole: the greater part of it has since been taken down.

In the parish church, which has lately been enlarged by subscription, (aided by the Society for enlarging and building parish churches,) are several monuments worthy of notice: the tomb of a grand-daughter of King Edward IV. (daughter of William, Earl of Devonshire,) has been already described. (fn. n12)