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William Wadham (died 1452)
Sir William Wadham (c.1386–1452) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon came from a West Country gentry family with a leaning towards the law, who originally took their name from the manor of Wadham in the parish of Knowstone, between South Molton and Exmoor, north Devon. His father, Sir John Wadham, was a Justice of the Common Pleas from 1389 to 1398, during the reign of King Richard II; one of many Devonians of the period described by Thomas Fuller in his ''Worthies of England'' as seemingly "innated with a genius to study law." William Wadham was Sheriff of Devon in 1442. His monumental brass and chest tomb in the Church of St Mary, Ilminster is said by William Henry Hamilton Rogers to depict him with his mother Joan Wrottesley, daughter of Sir William Wrottesley of Blore and Joan Bassett of Drayton Bassett, both in Staffordshire. It is among the best surviving brasses from the fifteenth century, and depicts him in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regnal Date
A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin ''regnum'' meaning kingdom, rule. Regnal years considered the date as an ordinal, not a cardinal number. For example, a monarch could have a first year of rule, a second year of rule, a third year of rule, and so on, but not a zeroth year of rule. Applying this ancient epoch system to modern calculations of time, which include zero, is what led to the debate over when the third millennium began. Regnal years are "finite era names", contrary to "infinite era names" such as Christian era, Jimmu era, ''Juche'' era, and so on. Early use In ancient times, calendars were counted in terms of the number of years of the reign of the current monarch. Reckoning long periods of times required a king list. The oldest such reckoning is preserved in the Sumerian king list. Ancient Egyptian chronology was also dated using regnal years. The Zoroastrian calendar also operated with regnal years following the reform of Ardas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stourton (died 1438)
John Stourton (died 1438) of Preston Plucknett in Somerset was seven times MP for Somerset, in 1419, 1420, December 1421, 1423, 1426, 1429 and 1435.Stourton, John I (d.1438), of Preston Plucknett, Som.', published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386–1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 Origins He was the younger son of John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire, by his second wife a certain Alice (d. 1407). His elder half-brother was William Stourton (died 1413) of Stourton, Speaker of the House of Commons and father of John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton (1400–1462). Marriages and children He married three times, having no sons, and left three daughters by three different marriages as co-heiresses. His first marriage, before 1403, was to Joan Banaster (c. 1376–1406), daughter and heiress of William Banaster (d. 1395) of East Lydford in Somerset, widow of Robert Affeton. Their daughter, Cecily Stourton, married firstly John Hill MP, of Spaxton in Some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton
John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton (19 May 1400 – 25 November 1462) of Stourton, Wiltshire, was an English soldier and politician, elevated to the peerage in 1448. Origins He was born on 19 May 1400 at Witham Friary, Somerset, the son of Sir William de Stourton (abt. 1373 – 18 September 1413), Speaker of the House of Commons, by his wife Elizabeth Moigne, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Moigne of Ower Moigne, Dorset.History of Parliament biographySTOURTON, John II (1400–62) of Stourton, Wilts/ref> Career Stourton served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1426, 1433 and 1437, Somerset and Dorset in 1428 and of Gloucestershire in 1439. He was returned to Parliament as knight of the shire for Wiltshire in Dec 1421, 1425 and 1432 and for Dorset in 1423. He was knighted c. 1430. He was also Treasurer of the Household from 1445 to 1453 and fought for five years in the wars in France and Normandy, acting as Lieutenant of Calais from 1450 to 1451. He was custodian of the Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rewe, Devon
Rewe is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon in England. It lies on the river Culm, north of the city of Exeter and south of the town of Tiverton. Rewe is a linear village, with most of its buildings lying along the A396 road about north of the larger village of Stoke Canon. The Reading to Plymouth railway line also passes through the village, but there has never been a station here; the nearest operating station () is Exeter St Davids. Before its closure, Stoke Canon station was the nearest. The parish church is the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, built around 1450 in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The hamlet of Up Exe (or Upexe) lies close to the River Exe about north of the village of Rewe and is included in Rewe civil parish, although it is closer to Silverton. Up Exe Halt railway station was on the Exe Valley Railway Line, which closed in 1963. External links * Kelly's ''Directory'' ''of Devonshire'', 1902Quoted by genukiRewe CP (Parish) Neighbourhood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Tawton
South Tawton is a village, parish and former manor on the north edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England. An electoral ward bearing the same name exists. At the 2011 census the population was 1,683. Historic estates Located in the parish of South Tawton are various historic estates including: North Wyke North Wyke was long a possession of the Wykes family. Worthy (1896) suggested this family, Latinized to ''de Wigornia'' ("from Worcester"), was descended from a certain William de Wigornia, a younger sons of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (c. 1142-1204) and ''de jure'' Earl of Worcester, by his marriage with Maud FitzRoy, daughter of Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall. The manor of South Tawton was anciently a possession of the Beaumont family. The effigy of John Wykes (1520-1591) of North Wyke, known locally as "Old Warrior Wykes", survives in South Tawton Church, showing a recumbent figure dressed in full armour, under a low tester with three low Ionic columns. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunk
Aunk (anciently Anke) is a small hamlet and former manor in the parish of Clyst HydonPevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.271 in East Devon, England. The place-name is of Celtic origin along with other local place-names such as Hemyock and Whimple Whimple is a village and civil parish in East Devon in the English county of Devon, approximately due east of the city of Exeter, and from the nearest small town, Ottery St Mary. It has a population of 1,642, recounted to 1,173 for the vill .... References External links * Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penselwood
Penselwood is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is located north east of Wincanton, south east of Bruton, west of Mere, and north west of Gillingham. The south-east of the parish borders Zeals and Stourhead in Wiltshire, and Bourton in Dorset. In 1991 the parish occupied 523 hectares (1,292 acres). Name The medieval form of the name was "Penn in Selwood", where ''pen'' (Brittonic for "head") probably referred to a hill and ''Selwood'' was the Selwood Forest which once surrounded the area. David Nash Ford associated nearby Ilchester with the Nennius (). Theodor Mommsen (). ''Historia Brittonum'', VI. Composed after AD 830. Hosted at Latin Wikisource. listed among the 28 cities of Britain by the ''History of the Britons'' on the basis that it should be read as an Old Welsh form of 'Penselwood'Ford, David Nash.The 28 Cities of Britain" at Britannia. 2000. (''coit'' being Welsh for "forest"), although others view it as three separate word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holcombe Rogus
Holcombe Rogus is a village and civil parish in the English county of Devon. In 2001 the population of the parish was 503. The northern boundary of the parish forms part of the county boundary with Somerset and clockwise from the east it is bordered by the Devon parishes of Culmstock, Burlescombe, Sampford Peverell, and Hockworthy. The first element of the place-name is derived from Old English for a deep or hollow coomb (valley) and the second element refers to the holder of the land – at the time of the Domesday Book (1086) the tenant was Rogo or Rogus. The manor house known as Holcombe Court was built by the Bluett family. It is situated to the immediate west of the parish church, hidden behind a high boundary wall, and was described by W. G. Hoskins as "perhaps the finest Tudor house in Devon". Hoskins, W.G., ''A New Survey of England: Devon'', Newton Abbot: David & Charles. New edition, 1972. The parish church is dedicated to All Saints and is predominantly 15th-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drayton Bassett
Drayton Bassett is a village and civil parish since 1974 in Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England. The village is on the Heart of England Way, a footpath. Much of the housing is clustered together but more than half is 20th century in the parish as a whole. In the parish is Drayton Manor Theme Park, occupying a large minority of its land. North of the adjoining suburb or town of Fazeley is the large town of Tamworth. The eastern lands of the parish form the bulk of Middleton Lakes RSPB reserve which has lakes of various sizes and has replaced an area of gravel workings (excavation). History Geographic history After the Norman Conquest the manor came to the Basset(t) (of Drayton) family until the change of ruling dynasty/faction year 1483, when it passed to the Earls of Leicester. From about 1600 it belonged to the Earls of Essex. It was sold piecemeal but its bulk was sold from the Marquis of Bath to Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, father of the later Prime Minister, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blore
Blore () is a small village and parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands District of England. It is on an acclivity above Dovedale, three and a half miles north west of Ashbourne, including the hamlet of Swinscoe, one mile (1.6 km) to the south and a part of the parochial chapelry of Calton. The ecclesiastical parish is Blore Ray with Okeover and the civil parish is Blore-with-Swinscoe, both with slightly different boundaries. Blore parish, exclusive of the portion of Calton, contains about and 273 souls. Swinscoe contains about . The Bassett tomb (Erected between 1618 and 1640) The village of Blore comprises Blore Hall (now owned by the Holiday Property Bond), St Bartholomew's parish church, the Old Rectory, a few other houses and several farms. The hall was first mentioned in 1331, though only one building remains substantially unaltered since 1661. The Holiday Property Bond is a life assurance bond investment in securities and assets. Its 35,000 Bondholders have excl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Hamilton Rogers
William Henry Hamilton Rogers (1 October 1834 – 20 November 1913), Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), (works published as "W.H. Hamilton Rogers"), of Ridgeway Row in Colyton,In 1877 he was resident at Colyton, Devon, from where he dated his preface to Ancient Sepulchral Effigies Devon, was an English historian and antiquarian who specialised in the West Country of England. He frequently worked with the illustrator Roscoe Gibbs. List of publications *Bells of Memory, 1862 *The Spirit of the Minor Prophets Metrically Rendered, 1865The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877archive.org text*The Fate of Clifton-Maubank, 1888 *Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon, Exeter, 1888 archive.org text***List of chapters: Beer and its Quarry; John Prince, the Devonshire Biographer; The fate of Clifton-Maubank (Horsey); Augustus Mantague Toplady: His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
