POWLEY on  Pomeroys

All I have is few pages of photocopy of Powley's book sent to me in about 1998.  
this is  from page 74  - I have now been given  photocopied pages of part of his tome
8th Baron Henry & his 1st wife Joan Moels had 5 sons for who they created a successive entail . His 2nd wife was Elizabeth Courtenay of the cadet Courtenay line at Powderham  died 1374 .His daughter by her , Elizabeth, married Oliver  Carminow
 When Henry's  father, the 7th successive Henry Pomeroy,  died in 1305 he was only 14  , his mother was Amica de Camville who held the manor of Stockleigh Pomeoy in East Devon in Dower in 1328;  Henry was presented at the church in Whitstone in the right of his wife Eliz Courtenay 1356.
With his cousin Peter Corbett he was to renew  the ancient Valtort suit claiming  a moiety of Tremerton and the lands of Valetort in  He did homage for his lands at for lands at Chudleigh  on 14 sept 1373 to the Bishop of Exeter  

His five sones were heir Henry who married  wife Emmot  ( a single mention of her name in a property record  )

2nd was William, 3rd Nicholas, 4th John and 5th Thomas .

Nicholas de Pomeroy, proved rather interesting . Lord of Dartmouth ,  Sheriff of Devon, also called Nicholas of Tewkesbury, was 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 .

 5th son Sir Thomas Pomeroy , 5th son of his father Henry by his wife Joanna Moels, was 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.

Until his position was usurped by Thomas Pomeroy, Esq son of the Cadet Line 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 and they were sons of Robert of Smallbridge & Bockerell  the cadet line of Pomeroys 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)William & his wife had a licence to celebrate  mass  for a year at their oratories at Schullestone and  Deaone / Deudon / Dewdon  .
  74/9/9/3  (Record Office Collection). SDV309691.

A document dated 1602 conveys the Manor of Dewdon Malet from John Malet of Enmore to Richard Langworthy and 

Close Rolls 1381  William de la Pomerai  in 1379  he and his wife were given licence to celebrate mass for 1 year at their oratories

at Schullestone - (Sherlston manor to the north of Modbury) and Deaudon - (Dewdon,) very ancient and isolated near Widecombe on the Moor. 

         

In 1405 Thomas & William Pomeroy with their father Robert and the chaplain  of the Membury Manor , the 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 )

This may be  the same Sir William  who married Alice FitzRafe in about 1457  in Cambridgeshire ( She is unnamed in  the pedigree ,but  her sister  Elizabeth married a Chamberlain  in 1457 in Kingston, Cambridgeshire. By circular research I uncovered her name -)

 There are Whalesboroughs in the Fitz Rafe pedigree William's wife I discovered to be Alice FitzRafe  was 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 Pomeroy & his wife Margaret Beville.

After Johanna Chudleigh Lady Pomeroy died in 1422  the childless Sir Thomas Pomeroy quickly made a 2nd marriage.  His new wife was Johanna Ralegh widow Whalesborough and in 1422 they went on a pilgrimage to Rome. .  Thomas died in 1426 & Joanna his widow died in 1435 & was buried at Greyfriars , Newgate, in the City of London.
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 their son, Sir John FitzRafe, 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

Moor than meets the eye at Dewdon 

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 .

The whole area is Awash with images and ancient history!!        https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/hutholes.htm  

High moor location


Dartmoor nestling between Rowden Ball and Dunstone Down is the ‘deserted medieval village’ of what today is known as the archeological site ‘Hutholes. The term ‘village’ is probably doing the settlement an 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

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.)

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 ?

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

took some finding - TDA - 1903

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

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

was she possibly a daughter who died before her father Baron Sir John wife Joanna de Merton, who died without living issue in 1416?