Sir Hugh Pollard

Birth: 1498 Devon, England Death: unknown, England

Sir Hugh POLLARD Knight was born 1498 in Grilstone, Devon, England. Eldest son and heir of Sir Lewis Pollard Great-grandfather of Sir Lewis Pollard; 1st Baronet of King's Nympton.

M1: Elizabeth Valletort b. abt. 1507 daughter and heiress of John Valletort of Clyst St Lawrence, by whom he had three sons and one daughter:

M2: ?

CHILDREN:

• 1. Sir Lewis II Pollard, abt. 1530 eldest son and heir.
• 2. John Pollard
• 3. Richard
• 4. Elizabeth Pollard, M1. Richard Bury (d.1543) of Colleton in Chulmleigh. M2: Henry Dillon (d.1579) of Chimwell, Bratton Fleming, lord of the manor of Bratton Fleming, whose sister Dorothy Dillon was the wife of Elizabeth's cousin Hugh Pollard of Knowstone.

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In 1539 Hugh I Pollard acquired a 21 year lease of the site and demesne of Torre Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and in 1543 acquired the freehold from John St. Leger (d.1596) of Annery.

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Parents:

 Lewis Pollard (1465 - 1526)

 Agnes Hext Pollard (1475 - ____)

Spouse:

 Elizabeth Valletort Pollard (1507 - ____)*

Children:

 Lewis Pollard (1530 - 1569)*

Siblings:

 George Pollard (____ - 1544)*

 Anne Pollard Moore (1496 - ____)*

 Hugh Pollard (1498 - ____)

 Joan Pollard Stukeley (1500 - ____)*

 Philippa Pollard Poulet (1504 - 1560)*

 Richard Pollard (1505 - 1542)*

 Robert Pollard (1512 - 1576)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown Specifically: UNKNOWN

Created by: W. Pollard Record added: Oct 30, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 119547291

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Pollard_(Sheriff)_

Secondly he married Dorothy Carew, daughter of Sir Edmund Carew (1465–1513) of Mohuns Ottery in the parish of Luppitt, Devon, (killed in 1513 at the Siege of Thérouanne, in Artois, part of the Battle of the Spurs or Battle of Guinegate) and widow of John Stowell, by whom he had a further daughter Dorothy Pollard (d.1559/60), the first of three wives of Robert Courtenay (d. 1583), lord of the manor of Molland in Devon.[17]

• 17. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.251,598