Thomas Bamfield, of Poltimore

Thomas Bamfield, b. by 1345, living 1392/3, became the 'domicellus' of Huxham manor, with his mother Joan presenting the priest, by license of elder brother John, who d.s.p. Thomas m. by 1376 Agnes, dau. of Adam Coplestone, by Alice Ferrers of Churston Ferrers, Devon, dau. of Sir John, son and heir of Sir Hugh Ferrers. (The Gen., cit., p. 10)

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• Devonshire wills: a collection of annotated testamentary abstracts, together with the family history and genealogy of many of the most ancient gentle houses of the west of England (1896)
• http://www.archive.org/details/devonshirewillsc00wortiala
• http://www.archive.org/stream/devonshirewillsc00wortiala#page/480/m...
• . . . . the said Sir Richard Merton, Kt, presented to Poltimore only sixteen months later, 24th March, 1362, as "Guardian of John Baunfeld, a minor, son and heir of John Baunfeld." This youthful heir also died young, but added much to the fortunes of the family by his marriage with Joan, daughter and heir of John de Hocesham, through which alliance his posterity acquired the adjacent manor of Huxham,1 which is still the property of Lord Poltimore. His widow, Joan, presented to Poltimore Rectory, as "relict of John Baunfeld," and by right of her dowry, 4th January, 1372-73. Her eldest son, Thomas "Bampfeld," presented to Poltimore 24th September, 1404, and to Huxham, as " true patron," 3rd February in the same year.2 He married Agnes, daughter and co-heir of John Faber of Bovey Tracy, and was the grandfather of John Bamfield of Poltimore, who by his wife Agnes, daughter and heir of John Pederton, by Cecilia, daughter and heir of John Turney, was the father of Sir William Bamfield, son and heir of Poltimore. This John and his wife rebuilt the Parish Church of Poltimore, as shown by an inscription on a gravestone which was, some years since, removed from the nave to the chancel, and which bears the following inscription : . . . .
• Their son, Sir William Bamfield,3 was sheriff of Devon in 1426, and died in 1474. The Manor of Huxham appears to have been settled upon his second son William Bamfield,
• http://www.archive.org/stream/devonshirewillsc00wortiala#page/481/m...
• who may have acquired the Pinhoe property, mentioned in the mortgage above noted, by his second marriage with Margaret Kirkham, widow of John Cheyney, of Pinhoe ; he succeeded his elder brother Walter "Bamfield," at Poltimore, 1st Sept., 1478, and was the father, by his first wife Margaret St. Maur, of Sir Edward Bamfield of Poltimore, who married Elizabeth Wadham, and died in 1528. ____________________
• Thomas I Bamfield
• Thomas I Bamfield of Poltimore (son), who married Agnes Copleston, daughter of Adam (or John[20]%29 Copleston of Copleston, in the parish of Colebrooke Devon. Adam/John Copleston was the son of Richard Copleston (fl.1307/27), the earliest ancestor of that prominent family.[21] The Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640) described the Coplestons as a "family who for their fair possessions, their port (sic) (report?) and the respect they lived in, were intitled 'the Great Coplestones' besides dignified with the name of 'Whit Spurrs', some time a title of great note and in these western parts of much esteem.[22] The Copleston family was one of the most ancient in Devon according to "that old saw often used among us in discourse", the traditional rhyme related by Prince (d.1723):[23]
  • "Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone,
  • When the Conqueror came were at home"
• Agnes Coplestone's sister was Eleanor Copleston (d.1430), wife of John II Pollard of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, Devon. She was the grandmother of Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465–1526), of King's Nympton, Justice of the Common Pleas.[24] A monumental brass exists in St Giles Church of this Alyanora Pollard (d.1430), of which only the original lower half of a female figure has survived, the top half being an accurate modern replacement, with the inscription below it:
  • Hic jacet Alyanora Pollard qui fuit uxor Joh(ann)is Pollard et filia Joh(ann)is Copleston qui obiit xxi die mensis Septembris Anno d(o)m(in)i Mill(ensi)mo CCCCXXX cuius animae propitietur Deus Amen.[25] (Here lies Eleanor / Alianore Pollard who was the wife of John Pollard and daughter of John Copleston who died on the 21st day of the month of September in the One thousandth four hundredth and thirtieth year of Our Lord of whose soul may God look upon with favour Amen.)
• The Bampfields later married one of the co-heiresses of the Copleston family, and lived in Copleston House as well as at Poltimore.
• John IV Bampfield
• John IV Bampfield (son), of Poltimore, who married Joane Hoxham, daughter and heiress of John (or William[27]%29 Hoxham of Hoxham, adjacent to Poltimore.[28] Both Pole (d.1635) and Risdon (d.1640) state that the marriage was without progeny (which is contradicted by the Heraldic Visitation of Devon pedigree[29]) but that the Hoxham estates were nevertheless inherited by the Bampfields by entail.[30] The arms of Hoxham (Argent, a lion rampant sable[26]) were quartered by the Bampfyldes in the 3rd quarter, after Hastings.[31]
• Thomas II Bampfield
• Thomas II Bampfield, (eldest son, according to the Heraldic Visitation of Devon pedigree[29]), who married Agnes Faber, daughter and co-heiress of John Faber. The arms of Faber (Argent, on a fess sable three cross crosslets or a bordure azure charged with twelve bezants) were later quartered by the Bampfields, in the 4th quarter after Hoxham. His second son was Richard Bampfield (d.1430) of Columbjohn in Devon, who received a grant of that estate to himself and "the heirs male of his body", from "Edward, Earl of Devon". He died without male progeny, and thus the estate escheated to Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon.[32]
• John V Bampfield
• John V Bampfield (son), who married a certain Joane
• John VI Bampfield
• John VI Bampfield (son) (fl. 14th century), who married Agnes Pederton, daughter and heiress of John Pederton of Hardington,[33] Somerset, by his wife Cecilia Turney, daughter and heiress of John Turney. By his wife he had two sons, the eldest Sir William Bampfield of Poltimore, the youngest Peter Bampfield of Hardington, Somerset, whose ultimate male descendant was Warwick Bampfield (1623–1695), of Hardington, whose heir was Sir Coplestone Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689–1727) of Poltimore. John VI and his wife Agnes Pederton rebuilt the Parish Church of Poltimore, as is evidenced by an inscribed ledgerstone, said by Worthy (1896) to have been moved from the nave to the chancel, bearing the following Latin text:[11]
  • "MCCCXC. Hic jacent Joh(ann)es Baunfeld et Agnes uxor eius, pat(er) et mat(er) Will(ielm)i Baunfeld, qui ha(n)c eccl(es)ia(m) et maxima(m) campana(m) fieri fecer(u)nt" ("1390. Here lie John Bampfield and Agnes his wife, the father and mother of William Bampfield, who caused to come into being this church and the greatest bell").
• Missing letters in the Latin inscription, omitted to save sculpting labour, are indicated by tildes placed over missing letters. The arms are Bampfield impaling Pederton: Argent, a bend gules between three lion's heads erased and ducally crowned sable.[34]
• Sir William I Bampfield
• Sir William Bampfield (d.1474)) of Poltimore, (eldest son), Sheriff of Devon in 1426.[35] he married Margaret Pauncefoot daughter of Walter Pauncefoot of Compton, Somerset.
• Walter Bampfield
• Walter Bampfield (1446–1478) (eldest son and heir), who married twice:
• Firstly to Constance Langsford, daughter of Edward Langsford; without progeny.
• Secondly to Grace Pudsey, daughter of Sir Ralph Pudsey. She survived her husband and remarried to Sir Roger Tetcote. By his second wife he had a son Andrew Bampfield (born 1474), who died without progeny, apparently as an infant, when the heir to the Bampfield estates was his uncle William Bampfield Andrew Bampfield (born 1474)
• .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Poltimore#Thomas_II_Bampfield ________________________