Beaumont of Ingsdon

Robert Pomeroy of Ingsdon Manor ( grandson of Edward Pomeroy and Margaret Bevill) in the parish of Ilsington in Devon ,  on 16 Nov 1481 settled an entail on his son Sinclair Pomeroy and the Manor of Ingsdon on themselves until they died. He died in 1517- His wife was Elizabeth Beaumont (daughter of John Beaumont of Ilsington ) who was nineteen when her father John Beaumont , a son of William Beaumont of Shirwell, died in 1471. Elizabeth died before her husband having given  him two sons, Sinclair, who although he died before his father continued the family line with his wife Elizabeth.  His 2nd son his  John Pomeroy on whom, in 1500,  his father settled   Barnes Place in Over Ingsdon.  Its possible that even then  they were involved in the local mines and quarries around Ilsington.
Robert married again before he died in Jan.1517.

Ilsington a large parish in Devon on Dartmoor includes Rippon Tor, Saddle Tor and Haytor extending to Bovey Tracey. Hay Tor quarries are within this parish. Bagtor, Ingsdon , Sigford and Staplehil are all small Domesday manors in this parish. Bagtor was developed into a mansion for   Fforde  family .

The Beaumonts from Devon 1424 - 1453 Combe and Gittisham were the inheritance of the Beaumont family who lived in Yolstone in the Parish of Shirwell near Barnstaple. Whether or not they lived at Combe is unclear.
It also seems likely that while the head of the family lived at Yolstone, some other member of the family may have lived at Combe.

By the time this son John was grown up, the Beaumonts were dying out in the male line, and  there was no apparent heir  when is uncle Hugh Beaumont died.
Both the Basset and the Chichester families laid claim to the Beaumont inheritance, but meanwhile John, whose existence wasn't even suspected, entered upon the Beaumont lands in Gittisham and claimed them as being the lawful son of William Beaumont.

A later Beaumont sold the property to Nicholas Putt. and the family owned the estate from 1614- 1846

SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT, of Cole Orton in Leicestershire inherited the properties of Yolston in North Devon near Barnstaple , Giddesham/Gittisham near Honiton in south east Devon and Lancarpe,(? Lancross ) near Bideford in North Devon and Elworthy in Somerset.
At Gittisham near Honiton , Coombe House, he built in the 14th C an Elizabethan house – that comprised of a great hall with rooms above for the owner, is set in a beautiful park on the slopes of Gittisham Hill and was probably built by Henry Beaumont who died 1591.

SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT was born at Yate in Gloucestershire 21st September, 1401, and died on Tuesday next after S. Martin the Bishop (17th November), 1460. He held lands at Barnstaple and also a house in London.

At Christmas, 1449 he paid Thomas Pomeroy, the prior of the monastery of the Holy Trinity forty shillings arrears of Quit rent for a tenement and garden in the parish of S.George, Eastcheap and S. Andrews Hubard.

By order of Privy Council 14th February 1436 he had to grant a loan of £40 towards the equipment of the army about to be sent to France.

He married before 1428 1st to Phillipa daughter of Sir John Dynhvm, issue five children
2nd to Alice, daughter of' Hugh Stewkeley of Aston.
Issue one son Richard who died before his father

John Beaumont 13 December 1550 18 June 1552 Master of the Rolls

The Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls, is the second most senior judge in England and Wales, after the Lord Chief Justice.

In the early part of the thirteenth century, Henry III gave the manor of Aynkesdon, (INGSDON) in Devon to Mathew de Beaumont.

We cannot however trace anything further respecting Mathew. In the fifteenth century the Beaumont  estate at Ingsdon  passed by marriage into the Pomeroy family when Elizabeth daughter of John Beaumont ,who died in 1471 when she was 19, married  Robert Pomeroy  son of  John of Tregony 2nd son of Henry Pomeroy by his wife Margaret Beville.

Robert, who died in 1517,  had inherited the ingsdon estate and created an entail for his 2 sons , Sinclere & John , in Nov 1481 apparently on the death of Anna Camell,  2nd wife of Baron Henry , who died  6 years later in 1487.  
Possibly because there was a son of that union which Vivian has not recorded . There are hints of a Henry son of Baron Henry & his 2nd wife.

SHIRWELL [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

"The pleasant village which gives its name to the Hundred is four miles N.E. by N. of Barnstaple, and has in its parish 686 souls, and 4762 acres of land. Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart, whose Baronetcy was created in 1641, is lord of the manor, and owner of most of the soil, and has a handsome seat here called Youlston Park, which one of his ancestors obtained by marrying the heiress of the Beaumonts, in the reign of Henry VII.

He is patron of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £30. 3s. 11½d., and in 1831 at £472. The Rev. R.J. Beadon, M.A., is the incumbent, and has 85A. of glebe, and a good residence, recently erected. The Church (St Peter,) is a neat structure, and contains several memorials of the Chichesters. The poor have the interest of £56. 10s., given by various donors."