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Henry de la Pomerai 8th Henry Baron Pomeroy 1st wife Joanna Moels.2nd wife Elizabeth Courtenay of the cadet Courtenay line at Powderham   died 1374 ; age 14 when his father died in 1305 father Henry mother Amica de Camville; Presented at the chuch in Whitstone in the right of his wife Eliz Courtenay 1356 Renewed the Valtort suit claiming  amoiety of tremerton and the lands of Valetort in 1316 ; did homage on 14 sept 1373 to the Bishop of Exeter for lands at Chudleigh ( Hennock 3 miles W.N.W. of Chudleigh )

 Hennock https://www.hennock.org.uk/hennock_history_early.html

1365 Thomas received lands in Welcombe (in Cheriton Fitzpaine), Lake (Stocklegh manor) and Hyrwardisheghes (in Cheriton Fitzpaine) of John Wadham and others 1366, he took a lease of the manor of Carswylle Abbas (Abbots Kerswell) from the abbot of Schyrborne (Sherborne).
The discovery of a single record in 2017  showed   Sir Thomas Pomeroy, in 1372 giving 'power of attorney' to others including the Vicar of Berry Pomeroy. By 1372 Sir Thomas was attending Parliament as a knight of the shire,  Member of Parliament)   and in the 1372 record shows Thomas  going on a Journey into Wales for the king ; ( the Welsh were in revolt at the time ) and he made provision for his wife Johane & his son William should he not return, leaving his wife & son entrusted to his brothers. Until 1378 Thomas held a life interest in Stoke Bassett (North Stoke, Oxfordshire)   He appears to have died at this time

https://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/269A/PO.

The Other Thomas  In 1388 Thomas Pomeroy Esq of  Smallridge & Upottery 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 widow of Sir John St Aubyn & of Sir Phillip de Bryan . Thomas Pomeroy was forgiven and then knighted in 1400 but the vicar was fined .
Thomas & his brother William were the sons of Robert Pomeroy of Bockerell Upottery & Smallbridge , the cadet line in east Devon. This descended from Geoffreyde Pomerai b circa 1210  & his wife Matilda de Ralegh who was the 2nd son of the 5th Baron & 3rd successive Henry Pomeroy. 
  William of Membury 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)  He married Alice Fitzrafe who was buried in  GreyFriars with her grandmother Johanna Ralegh  nee Wolbrough widow of Thomas 

In 1405 Thomas & William Pomeroy and the chaplain, the Membury Manor 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 )

William & his wife were granted a licence to celebrate  mass  for a year at their oratories at Schullestone and  Deaone / Deudon / Dewdon  . 

Dartmoor   Nestled between the bosom of Rowden Ball and Dunstone Down is the ‘deserted medieval village’ of what today is known as ‘Hutholes. The term ‘village’ is probably doing the settlement huge 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

• Geoffrey de la Pomerai  This is a different man to  the 2nd son of  Baron Henry & his wife Alice de Vere who held Buckerell & Upottery etc in East Devon. His dates - Under age (21) in 1208; paid a fee/rent for Tale in  21 Hen III  1237  and Upottery & Buckerell around 1247

 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.)

http://www.somerton.co.uk/local-history/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 ? 

OR  could  this refer to John  4th son - 3rd after the heir  of the  5 sons of 8th Baron Henry & his Moels wife except  the Moels crest doed  not have bends, sinister or otherwise

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

• Could be 5th son of Henry & Moels born around 1335;  Kings Knight , father of William & grandfather of Baron Edward Pomeroy who married Margaret Beviile in about 1403 . 

took some finding - TDA - 1903 https://archive.org/details/reportandtransa14artgoog/page/n300/mode/2up

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

• Margaret de la Pomerai widow of Richard 1384 in her widowhood  gave her son William Pote and his heirs by his wife Joanna, the dau of Richard Cleridon, land at Goddecott /Gunnacott in the manor of Clawton in Devon at a rental fee of 6s/0 annually 

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

Widecombe on Moor close-by 

• Geoffrey de la Pomerai  This is a different man to  the 2nd son of the 3rd Baron Henry Pomeroy by his wife Alice de Vere who held Buckerell & Upottery etc in East Devon.
  His dates - Under age (21) in 1208; paid a fee/rent for Tale in  21 Hen III  1237  and Upottery & Buckerell around 1247

1383- some 135 odd years later  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

• Could be 5th son of Henry & Moels born around 1335;  Kings Knight , father of William & grandfather of Baron Edward Pomeroy who married Margaret Beviile in about 1403 .

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

Feudal 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

• Margaret de la Pomerai widow of Richard 1384 in her widowhood  gave her son William Pote and his heirs by his wife Joanna, the dau of Richard Cleridon, land at Goddecott /Gunnacott in the manor of Clawton in Devon at a rental fee of 6s/0 annually

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 2nd 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

• Anna de la Pomerai 1397 held no land or tenement in Devonshire - at her death   who was she I wonder? 

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

FitzRafe pedigree shows 

Sir John Pom & Joanna Merton has a daughter Ann married to Sir John Raleigh

HAMPSHIRE

Nicholas de la Pomerai 1293 bailiff to Margaret la Mahewe who claimed rights in manor in Southamptonshire. SOURCE Powley 

In 1262 Margaret la Mahewe held the advowson.....
(in ecclesiastical law) the right to recommend a member of the Anglican clergy for a vacant benefice, or to make such an appointment.