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Sir StClere Pomeroy
St Clere Pomeroy was 4 time great grandson of Sir Thomas , Kings Knight & MP;
4th brother of NICHOLAS OF TEWKESBURY merchant & shipowner, Lord of Dartmouth, Sheriff of Devon, d 1380.
Baron Henry Pomeroy b 1291 & wife Johanna Moels a daughter of Lord John Moels Feudal baron at North Cadbury -
Henry was baron at age of 14 from 1305 until his death in 1387
5 sons of record below
RESEARCH into the mystery of where he was buried after the Battle of Tewkesbury
St Clere was son & heir of Sir Henry of Beri Pomeroy by his 1st wife Alice Ralegh & 5 x nephew of Nicholas, ship owning merchant of Tewkesbury & Lord of Dartmouth
St Clere was evidently a warrior following his warlord & father-in-law, Sir Phillip Courtenay, in the service of Yorkist king Edward IV .
St Clere Pomeroy 's last battle was in 1471 at Tewkesbury but he was apparently at other battles during the Wars of the Roses
First Battle of St Albans (22 May 1455) Battle of Blore Heath (23 September 1459). Battle of Ludford Bridge (12 October 1459)
Battle of Sandwich (15 January 1460) Battle of Northampton (10 July 1460) Battle of Worksop (16 December 1460)
Battle of Wakefield (30 December 1460) Battle of Mortimer's Cross (2 February 1461) Second Battle of St Albans (17 February 1461) Battle of Ferrybridge (28 March 1461) Battle of Towton (29 March 1461) Battle of Piltown (early 1462) Battle of Hedgeley Moor (25 April 1464) Battle of Hexham (15 May 1464) Battle of Edgecote Moor (26 July 1469) Battle of Losecoat Field (12 March 1470)
Battle of Barnet (14 April 1471) and the Battle of Tewkesbury (4 May 1471)
From Steve Goodchild of the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Battle-of-Tewkesbury/ Here
AJP enquired of the society and recieved this reply.....
We published a book, the Street Banners of Tewkesbury, which we describe as a work in progress because family historians frequently correct, or add to the details. Almost everything we have about the participants comes from secondary sources.
The Pomeroy page
Sir St Clere is one of a number of soldiers who died in the weeks following the battle, and this is almost inevitably of wounds received. In some cases this fact is recorded, but not with Sir St Clere. It is possible to speculate that he ended up in the Monastery infirmary under the care of the monks, if he’d been very badly injured and couldn’t be returned home.
There is an article published by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society which lists all those buried in the Abbey after the battle, but St Clere isn’t among them. If he died at Tewkesbury, he would have been buried in the churchyard. We have no record of those graves.
The memorials in the Abbey are to the Prince of Wales and the Courtneys killed in the battle. The former is a brass plaque in the quire, the latter a twentieth-century tablet on the wall of the chapel in which they were buried. This is now the Abbey shop, and the memorial is hidden behind display cabinets. In 2014, a commemorative sculpture was unveiled by Robert Hardy on a roundabout on the edge of the battlefield, to remember all who fell in the battle.
There is no recitation of names, because we cannot be sure of the accuracy of the list we have which is in any case very selective, based on status.
St Cleres death is recorded at May 1571 and incliuded in the word of mouth recollection, a recitation, taken at the 1516 Inquisition Post Mortem (IPM) after the death of his widow Katherine Courtenay a daughter of Sir Phillip Courtenay of Powderham.
Kathyn married twice more. 2ndly to Thomas Rogers and lastly to William Huddersfield, Attorney General for England and Wales to Edward IV (1461–1483)[1] and Henry VII (1485–1509)
She survived them all.
St Clere was a Lancastrain and the Victorious Edward IV dealt brutally with the Lancastrians at Tewkesbury sumarily executing many of them.
It was customary for widows to be buried with their 1st husband and Katherine asked to be buried in Grey Friar in Exeter. However she it seems she was probably buried at Shillingford with her 3rd husband.Huddersfield , where there is a memorial to them both.
This lead me to wonder if St Clere was brought home after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 & buried at Grey Friars possibly/ probably in a family tomb, none of which now survives.
Heritage Gateway gives us this - A convent of Franciscans or Grey Friars was established in Exeter before the middle of the 13th century for a deed of 1240 mentions the "Domics Fratram Minorum". From several documents it is certain that the convent was originally situated in an area behind St. Nicholas's Priory and behind the North and West Gates, viz: between Snayle Tower and the Kings Highway in Bretayne now called Bartholomew Street. see map below
In the 1290's the Friary was moved to a new site outside the South Gate between Holloway Street and the River Exe where work on the new church dedicated to John the Baptist was in progress in 1303.
Cathwrine's 2nd husband Thomas Rogers was buried at Shillingford as was her 3rd husband Sir William Huddersfield , who built the tower of St George's Church, Shillingford .
My question remains. WHY did she ask to be buried at Exeter Greyfriars ?
final note
There are no recorded children in the 9 years of marriage of St Clere & his wife Katherine who married in about 1463 , This may possibly due to St Clere being away on military service from 1455 onwards but it might also be due the age of his wife who may have been as young as 12 or so when she was married off to StClere. Some husbands' waited until girl was 16 before consummating the marriage. It happened.
After St Cleres death Katheryn married twice more. and had children.
Part of a 2022 drawing by RW Parker- Grey Friars just outside the walls of the Devon Staple of Exeter.
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