James Trewynnard of Trewinnard

Biography

James Trewynnard of Trewinnard, in the parish of St Erth, Cornwall died after October 06, 1572. Trewinnard of St Erth were a minor gentry family.

Married 1) unknown

Children include

• Phillipa
• William
• James, MP
• Elizabeth, 2nd daughter, married John III Killigrew (d.1567) of Arwenack, the first Governor of Pendennis Castle

Married 2) Phillipa Carminow, widow of Hugh Boscawen

Notes

After Hugh Boscawen’s death, Philippa Carminow married James Trewynnard. After their marriage, James went to live with Philippa at Tregothnan higher up the Fal estuary. Soon after this marriage, he became involved in a bitter dispute with his stepson John Boscawen and the young man’s guardian John Carminowe over some livestock. Matters came to a head on 8 Feb. 1560 when there was a skirmish between the two parties, in which Trewynnard was injured and his companion Carew Courtenay was killed. Following his wife’s death Trewynnard gave up living at Tregothnan and appears to have left Cornwall for a time; in 1564 or not long afterwards, as James Trewynnard of the county of Devon, he brought an action against Thomas Herle regarding lands in Kenwyn and elsewhere in the neighbourhood of Truro. Herle was a nephew of Trewynnard’s late wife and the lands in question appear to have formed part of the property divided between the elder Nicholas Carminowe’s coheirs Elizabeth Herle and Philippa Trewynnard; as Herle pointed out, Trewynnard had no claim to any part of this inheritance.[2]

References

1. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/tr...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Killigrew_(d.1584)_
3. Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 2 2020, 5:59:59 UTC
4. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6RB-NG5
5. In John Leland's tours of 1534-43, Leland mentions Trewynnard as being in the possession of Mr Mohun. In footnotes to my edition of Leland's work, the editor (Pearse Chope) says that "The barton of Trewinnard in St Erth parish belonged to an ancient family of that name, two of whom were successive members for the county in the reign of Edward III. The last who appears to have possessed this barton was William Trewinnard, one of the members for Helston in the reign of Henry VIII. From the Trewinnards it passed to the Mohuns who some time resided at Trewinnard. This seems to have happened before Leland wrote his account."