Eva de Tracy, heiress of Wollacombe

Biography

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 25:28

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N. N. de Tracy (Called Eva in Devon & Cornwall N & Q xix 194-201 but this is perhaps an error for her niece, Eva or Emma de Tracy, who mar. Warin de Bassingbourne); m. say 1165, Gervase de Courtenay who was probably related to Reginald de Courtneay (138-25) as both families gave grants to Tor Abbey and Ford Abbey (the latter abbey having the Courtenay as its chief patron). Gervase de Courtenay and his wife had two identifiable children, Hugh de Courtenay (who had control of his uncle Sir William de Tracy's barony of Bradninch, Devon in the latter part of the 1190s) and William de Tracy (living 1198-1199). This 2nd son William de Tracy is perhaps identical with the William de Tracy who was holding the manor of Bradford Tracy, (East) Preweye and Ivedon, Devon, in 1242/43. Besides these two sons there may have been a third son, Oliver (No. 28 below), but the evidence does not prove or disprove it.

Olivers de Tracy's descendants differenced their Tracy arms with a label of azure which leabel is a remarkable feature of the Courtenay coat of arms. This heraldic evident suggests that Oliver was likely a son of Gervase de Courtenay and his wife (nee Tracy). [Douglas Richardson] 160

References

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 25:28 cites
  • (Book of Fees, pt. II, pp. 750 & 792; George Oliver, Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis, pp. 183, 187, 338, 346, 347; Devon & Cornwall N & Q xix 194-201; Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, ed. Round, I:194-195; Curia Regis Rolls, 12:440, 13:137-138, 247, 287, 364-385, 395). !Elizabeth Fitz Alan, d. 1425; m. (3) as his 4th wife, Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham, Notts. (CP I 253, IV 205, IX 604; Banks I 415; DNB 54:75). Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots, Seventh Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1992.
• http://cybergata.com/roots/3075.htm
• “CP & AR's treatment of William & Grace de Tracy & Rohese.” Post at SGM, Jim Weber, 20 March 2003. < GoogleGroups >