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Johanna Chudleigh, Lady Pomeroy
JOAN WIFE OF THOMAS POMERAY, KNIGHT ( Joanna or Joan Chudleigh widow of Sir John St Aubyn & Sir Phillip de Bryan_)
259_001 Visitations - she died 8 Dec 1423 & the IPM is a year later on 11 December 1244
Writ. 21 December 1422. [Wymbyssh]
DEVON. Inquisition. Exeter. 12 October 1423. [Copleston]
Jurors: Richard Littleton ; John Jaycok ; Richard Peperell’ ; Thomas Halywyll’ ; John Botour ; Richard Holand ; John Sayer ; Nicholas Coterell ; Henry atte Boar ; John Cole of Pole ; John Aysshe of Chagford ; John Vautort of Clyst ; and John Nyweman .
She held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in demesne or by service. She held the following for life with reversion to Joan and Margaret, her daughters and heirs of John St Aubyn, esquire .
Combe Raleigh (Comberale), the manor, held from Thomas Carrew, knight , by knight service, annual value £10.
Avishayes (nr Chard in Som.) a toft & a carucate of arable, held of Humphrey Coutenay, knt, by knight service, value £4.
Wolston, a carucate of arable, held of the abbot of Dunkeswell in right of St Mary’s church, Dunkeswell, by knight service,
annual value 40s.
She died on 14 December 1422. Joan and Margaret, her granddaughters of John St Aubyn , are her kinswomen and next heirs,
being daughters of her son John Seyntaubyn ; Joan aged 8 years and Margaret 6 years.
[The inquisition for Cornwall ordered in the inquisition is not extant.]
C 139/9/16 mm.1–259_001^: Styled chevalier in the writ and knight in the inquisition.
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JOAN WIFE OF THOMAS POMERAY, KNIGHT ( Joan Chudleigh widow of John St Aubyn & of Phillip De Bryan)
246 Writ que plura . ‡ 20 October 1428. [Wymbyssh].
DEVON. Inquisition [indented]. Honiton 25 October 1428. [Tretherf].
Jurors: William Maleherbe ; John Maleherbe ; William Assheforth ; Thomas Sterre ; William Sely ; John Clode ;
Walter Badston ; Gilbert Attewode ; Walter Traci ; John Gascoyn ; Thomas Waltham ; and John Bucknoll .
She held more lands and tenements than specified in CIPM XXII no. 259, an inquisition taken in 1423.
She held the following in demesne as of fee.
Berry Pomeroy, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service.
60 messuages, worth £3 yearly; a water-mill (Smallbrook) worth 10s yearly;
60 ferlings arable, demised severally to tenants-at-will, rendering £20 yearly at the four principal terms by equa parts;
20 acres of meadow, worth 26s. 8d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, worth 40s. yearly;
100 acres of timber woodland, pasture worth 10s. yearly; and £23 (460 shillings) assize rent, payable at Easter and
Michaelmas by equal parts.
Stockleigh Pomeroy, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service.
There are 20 messuages with 20 ferlings of arable, demised to various tenants-at-will, worth 100s. yearly
a fulling-mill, worth nothing yearly;
20 acres of wood, its pasture worth 6s. yearly;
8 acres of meadow, worth 8s. yearly.
Brixham, ½ manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is assize rent of 100s. from tenements held severally
in fee simple, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts.
Harberton, ½ manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is a messuage and 40 a. arable, worth 20s. yearly.
She held no more lands or tenements in demesne or service above those lands and tenements found in the inquisition taken after her death and returned to Chancery.
She died on 8 December 1423.
Joan wife of Otto Bodrugan is hergrandaughter & one of her next heirs as daughter of her son John St Aubyn . married aged 17
Margaret wife of Reynold Tretherf is her kin and other next heir as daughter of John St Aubyn , married aged 13 .
[1]+She was seised of the above manors and moieties before her marriage to Thomas Pomeray . They afterwards had a daughter called Isabel. ( who died before Thomas her father who died in 1426 )
Joan died seised of this estate and Thomas continued in his estate by curtesy until his own death on St Laurence’s day in 1426
[Head:] Reynold Beyer freed to the court on the escheator’s behalf on 9 December 1428.
C 139/40/51 mm.1, 4
E 152/6/260 m.14v.
247 Writ mandamus . ‡ 20 October 1428. [Wymbyssh].
CORNWALL. Inquisition [indented]. Truro 3 November 1428. [Tretherf].
Jurors: William Nevyll ; Stephen Boswydell ; John Meleder ; William Trewonwall ; Benedict Cubart; Reynold Trevronek ;
Thomas Bosveysek ; Peter Nampyan ; James Ethneves ; Nicholas Hendre; John Nicol Nanskelly; and John Carleyghan .
She was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Tregony, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is a principal messuage and 40 other messuages, worth nothing yearly; 2 water-mills, worth 60s. yearly; 1 fulling-mill, worth 5s. yearly; a mill called ‘Tanmylle’, worth 5s. yearly; £15 assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts and delivered by free tenants; 15 ferlings arable, demised to tenants-at-will, rendering 100s. yearly at the four principal terms by equal parts; 20 acres of . wood, its pasture worth 7s. yearly; and 10 acres of alder, its pasture commonly worth 3s. 4d. yearly.
Date of death and heirs as 246.
Continues as 246+[1].
[Head:] Reynold Beyer freed to the court on the escheator’s behalf... ?9 December 1428 [ms worn and dirty]
C 139/40/51 mm.2–3
E 152/6/260 m.13v.
Joanna and her 2nd marriage to Phillip de Bryan
Sir Guy de Bryan Warrior Knight , had children by his 2nd wife Elizabeth de Montague
Died 1390 & was buried in the Abbey, at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire his tomb stand next to that of 2nd wife Elizabeth
Children were
Margaret
William (Bryan) de Bryan, died after his father & brothers - married Joan had no children died 1395
Guy (Bryan) de Bryan who married Alyce de Bures ( the subject of Medieval Gentlewomen) died 1386 buried at Slapton in Devon ;
Their 2 daughters inherited the vast de Bryan estates and that of de Bures their mothers estats
Philip de Bryan 1386 married the widow of St Aubyn Joanna Chudiegh co-heir the Pomeroy Barony . Phillip died without heirs in 1387 in France
before Oct 1388 she married Thomas Pomeroy Esq whi was knighted in 1400. She died 1423. Thats a surprising 35 years !
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