Sir Edward Bampfield

Edward Bamfield1
Last Edited 17 May 2020
M, #173926, b. circa 1490, d. 20 May 1528
Father William Bamfield1 b. c 1448, d. 1497
Mother Margaret Seymour1 b. c 1470, d. 1491
Edward Bamfield was born circa 1490 at Poltimore, Devonshire, England.1 He married Elizabeth Wadham, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset, Devonshire, & Wiltshire and Jane Hill, circa 1517 at England.1 Edward Bamfield died on 20 May 1528 at Poltimore, Devonshire, England.1
Family
Elizabeth Wadham b. c 1498, d. 20 May 1528
Children

• Catherine Bamfield+2 b. c 1518, d. a 1564
• Richard Bamfield+1 b. c 1526, d. 29 May 1594

Citations
1.[S11597] Ancestry.com, Information submitted by lpalwickgoebel.
2.[S11597] Ancestry.com, Information submitted by Lilian Simpson.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p5793.htm...
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Edward Bampfield1
M, #747319
Last Edited=22 Jan 2023
Edward Bampfield lived at Poltimore, Devon, England.1
Child of Edward Bampfield
1. Catherine Bampfield+1
Citations
1.[S6289] The History of Parliament Online, online http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Hereinafter cited as History of Parliament.
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p74732.htm#i747319
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Sir Edward Bampfylde1
M, #263814
Last Edited=24 Jan 2008
Sir Edward Bampfylde lived at Poltimore, Devon, EnglandG.1
Child of Sir Edward Bampfylde

• Elizabeth Bampfylde+1

Citations
[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1286. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p26382.htm#i263814
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Edward Bampfylde
Birth unknown
Death 20 May 1528
Poltimore, East Devon District, Devon, England
Burial St. Mary's Churchyard
Poltimore, East Devon District, Devon, England
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 173503278
Family Members
Children
Richard Bampfylde
unknown–1594
From: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173503278/edward-bampfylde
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• Wadhams genealogy, proceded by a sketch of the Wadham family in England.. ([c1913])
• http://www.archive.org/details/wadhamsgenealogy00stev
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wadhamsgenealogy00stev#page/4/mode/1up
• Sir John, the second, left two sons, William and Thomas, the later of Redworthy in Ashreigny. Sir William Sheriff of Devon, married Margaret, daughter of William Cheselden. His heir was John, who became Sir John, third, who married Elizabeth, one of the four daughters of Stephen Popham, the representative of an ancient Hampshire family as well as of Merefield, in Ilton near Ilminster. This John left two sons, John and Edward, also a daughter, Alice, who married Nicholas Stukeley, of Affeton, North Devon. This latter John also became Sir John, the fourth of the name and title, and he married Elizabeth, who was daughter of another Stukeley, Hugh, of Affeton. The heir of this fourth Sir John was Nicholas, and another son was William. Nicholas, like his ancestors, was knighted. He married first, Joan, daughter of Robert Hill, of Halsway, and his heir was another John. Nicholas and Joan had also other children: Andrew; Giles, who married Agnes, daughter of Clauson of Barton; Mary, who married Sir Richard Chudleigh of Ashdon; and Elizabeth, who married first, Sir Edward Bampfield, and second Richard Warr.
• Nicholas, four times married, took for his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Seymour, who was aunt of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII and sister also to the Protector, Edward, Duke of Samoerset. The children of Nicholas and Margaret Seymour were Nicholas and a daughter, Jane. Nicholas was knighted in 1494 "at ye creacion of Prince Henry," then two years old, to be Duke of York. In 1498 ....
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wadhamsgenealogy00stev#page/n28/mode/1up
  • CHART - PEDIGREE OF WADHAM.
• 5. John Wadham, Knt. mar1. da. of Cheyney, of Pine. mar2. Elizabeth, da. of Hugh Stukeley. ch: Sir Nicholas, of Merifield, Captain of the Isle of Wright, &c. Will proved Jan. 30, 1542.; William.
  • 6. Sir Nicholas, of Merifield, Captain of the Isle of Wright, &c. Will proved Jan. 30, 1542. mar1. Joan, da. of Robt. Hill, of Halfway, by Alice, da. of John Stourton, of Preston, Somerset, and relict of William Daubeny. ch: 1. Laurence, o.s.p.; 2. John, of Merifield and Edge. Will proved mar. 15, 1577/8; buried at Ilminster.; 3. Giles, of Barton, co. Somerset.; Andrew, o.s.p.; Mary mar. Richard Chudleigh, of Ashdon.; Elizabeth mar1. Edw. Bampfield, mar2. John Warr.; Sir Nicholas mar2. Margaret, sister of Sir John Seymour, Knt., and aunt of Queen Jane; buried in Carisbrooke. ch: Nicholas, o.s.p.; buried at Ilton, 1508.; Jane mar. Forster, of Badesley, Hants.; Sir Nicholas mar3. Isabell, d. of T. Baynam, of Gloucestershire and relict of Sir Giles Bridges. Sir Nicholas mar4. Joan, da. of Richard Lyte, widow of William Walton of Barton. Will proved 1557; buried at Ilton.

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Sir Hugh Stucley (1496–1559) was the lord of Affeton in Devon, and Sheriff of Devon in 1545.[2] His third son was Thomas Stukley (c. 1520 – 1578), known as "The Lusty Stucley".
Origins
He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Stucley (1473–1542) of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon in 1521,[3] by his wife Anne Wode (alias Wood), daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Wode[4] (died 1502), of Childrey in Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire), Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1500 and in 1478 elected a Member of Parliament for Wallingford.
Marriage and children
Stucley married Jane[a] Pollard, second daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465 – 1526), lord of the Manor of King's Nympton in Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526,[6] and Member of Parliament for Totnes, Devon, in 1491. etc
By his wife he had five sons and five daughters.
Sons

• etc.
• Amias Stucley, fifth son, who married Frances/Francisca Pollard, daughter of Sir Richard Pollard of Way, St Giles in the Wood, Devon, (the senior and original line of the Pollard family and first cousin twice removed of Sir Lewis Pollard of Bishop's Nympton) by his wife Joane Bampfield, a daughter of Sir Edward Bampfield (died 1528) of Poltimore in Devon.[12]

Daughters

• etc.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Stucley
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Perceval, Richard by Raymond Beazley
PERCEVAL, RICHARD (1550–1620), colonist and politician, born in 1550, was eldest son of George Perceval or Percival (1561–1601), a large landed proprietor of Somerset, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Bampfylde of Poltimore, Devonshire. He was educated at St. Paul's school. Becoming a student at Lincoln's Inn, he offended and alienated his father by his extravagance, and still more by a rash marriage with Joan, seventh daughter of Henry Young of Buckhorn Weston in Dorset, ‘with whom he had no fortune.’ Having ‘ruined himself by his riots, he was now left to recover himself by his wits.’ He went into Spain, and lived there four years till his wife's death; he then returned to England, and vainly sought a reconciliation with his father. etc.
[Cal. English State Papers, Dom. 1599–1607 (where several official letters from Perceval are noticed); Irish State Papers, 27 Sept. 1608, and 3 May 1611; Lodge's Peerage of Ireland ed. Archdall (which takes its facts from Anderson's History of the House of Yvery), ii. 233–238. The figures of income credited to Perceval's employments are contradicted by the sums assigned in the Issue Books, e.g. of 1610 and 1612. Brown's Genesis of U.S.A., pp. 214, 467, 963–4; Granger's Biogr. Dict. ii. 89.]
C. R. B.
From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_18...
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Sir Richard Percivale (alias Perceval etc.) (1550 – 4 September 1620) of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, was an English administrator and politician, also known as a Hispanist and lexicographer. He wrote a Spanish grammar for English readers, A Spanish Grammar, and a dictionary, both included in his Bibliotheca Hispanica (1591); this work was later enlarged by John Minsheu in A dictionarie in Spanish and English (London: Edmund Bollifant, 1599; London: printed by John Haviland for various booksellers, including William Aspley, Matthew Lownes, and George Latham, 1623).[2]
Origins
He was the eldest son and heir of George Perceval (c1532–1601) (alias Percival, etc.) of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, by his wife Elizabeth Bampfylde, a daughter of Sir Edward Bampfylde (d.1528)[3] of Poltimore, Devon and Elizabeth Wadham. His family had inherited the manor of Sydenham by marriage to the heiress of the prominent Westcountry Sydenham family, which had originated there,[4] junior branches of which were seated in Somerset at Combe Sydenham, Orchard Sydenham, Brympton D'Evercy (later Sydenham baronets) and elsewhere.
etc.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Percivale
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Manor of Poltimore
The Manor of Poltimore is a former manor in Devon, England. The manor house known as Poltimore House survives in its 18th-century remodelled form, but has been dilapidated for several decades. A charity named the "Poltimore House Trust" has been established for the purpose of its restoration. The manor was situated within the historic Wonford Hundred and was largely coterminous with the parish of Poltimore and contained the village of Poltimore, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of the historic centre of the City of Exeter. It should not be confused with the eponymous Devon estate of Poltimore in the parish of Farway, 16 miles (26 km) east of Exeter. Poltimore was the principal seat of the Bampfylde family from c. 1300 to 1920.
etc.
John Bamfielde
John Bamfielde of Poltimore and Weston Bampfylde, Somerset, married Ellinor Beauchamp, a daughter of Sir Humfrey Beauchamp of Ryme. By 1292 John Bampfylde held an estate in Great and Little Weston, Somerset, possibly in right of his wife.[11] He was the son of John Baunfeld (fl. 1199/1216) and married a daughter and heiress of a John Hastings, whose identity is unclear. In the Nomina Villarum of 1316 a certain de Bamfeld is described as "Lord of Poltimore" and on 5 March 1340/41 his son "John de Bamfeld" is recorded as patron of the Rectory of Poltimore.[9]

John Bamfielde
John Bamfielde of Poltimore (son), married Joane de Merton (died 1420),[12] a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard de Merton,[13] of Merton, Devon, whose family also inherited a moiety of the feudal barony of Great Torrington. She survived her husband and remarried to Sir John de la Pomeray (1347–1416), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy, Devon.

Thomas Bamfield
Thomas Bamfield of Poltimore (son), who married Agnes Copleston, daughter of Adam (or John[14]) Copleston of Copleston, in the parish of Colebrooke Devon.

John Bampfield
John Bampfield (son), of Poltimore, who married Joane Hoxham, daughter and heiress of John (or William[15]%29 Hoxham of Hoxham, adjacent to Poltimore.[16] Both Pole (died 1635) and Risdon (died 1640) state that the marriage was without children but that the Hoxham estates were nevertheless inherited by the Bampfields by entail.[17]

Thomas Bampfield
Thomas Bampfield, (eldest son, according to the Heraldic Visitation of Devon pedigree[18]), who married Agnes Faber, daughter and co-heiress of John Faber. His second son was Richard Bampfield (died 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 children, and thus the estate escheated to Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devon.[19]

John Bampfield
John Bampfield (son), who married a certain Joane. Pole states that "John Bampfield, the ancestor of Bampfield of Poltimore" married Isabel Cobham, one of the co-heiresses of the manor of Blackborough,[20] and the arms of Cobham of Blackborough are amongst the 30 quarterings above the effigy and monument to Sir Amyas Bampfield (d.1626) in All Saints Church, North Molton.[21]

John Bampfield (fl. 14th century)
John Bampfield (son) (fl. 14th century), who married Agnes Pederton, daughter and heiress of John Pederton of Hardington,[22] 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. Bamfield 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:[9]

• "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"). The arms are Bampfield impaling Pederton: Argent, a bend gules between three lion's heads erased and ducally crowned sable.[23]

Sir William Bampfield (died 1474)
Sir William Bampfield (died 1474)) of Poltimore, (eldest son), Sheriff of Devon in 1426.[24] 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 children.
• 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 (see below).

Andrew Bampfield (born 1474)
Andrew Bampfield (born 1474) (son), who died childless, apparently as an infant, when the heir to the Bampfield estates was his uncle William Bampfield.

William Bampfield
William Bampfield (uncle, second son of Sir William Bampfield (died 1474)) of Poltimore). He married twice:

• Firstly to Margaret St Maur, a daughter and co-heiress of John St Maur of Rode, and heir to her niece Mary Drury.
• Secondly to Margaret Kirkham, daughter of Nicholas Kirkham (1433–1516) of Blagdon in the parish of Paignton in Devon, and widow of John Cheyne of Pinhoe. She survived her husband and remarried to a Grenville of Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon.[25]

Sir Edward Bampfield (died 1528)
Sir Edward Bampfield (died 1528), eldest son and heir by his father's first wife Margaret St Maur. He married Elizabeth Wadham, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham (1472-1542) of Merryfield, Ilton in Somerset and of Edge, Branscombe in Devon (a widow at the time of her second marriage, she later married John Warre of Chipleigh. One of their four daughters, Elizabeth Bampfield,[26] was the wife of George Perceval (1561–1601) of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, and mother of Richard Percival (1550–1620) an administrator and politician, who wrote a Spanish grammar for English readers and was the ancestor of the Earl of Egmont.

Richard Bampfield (1526–1594)
Richard Bampfield (1526–1594) of Poltimore and Bampfylde House in Exeter, was Sheriff of Devon in 1576, and in 1550 began construction of the Tudor era, Poltimore House. He was the son and heir of Sir Edward Bampfield and Elizabeth Wadham.
His father died when Richard was an infant aged two, and he entered wardship, concerning which John Prince, (died 1723) relates a story "of undoubted credit":[27]

• It was thus, his father dying, the young gentleman fell a ward to some great person in the east-country, who seized upon him while he was very young, carryed him away to his own home. He being now possessed of his person and estate, some years after gave it out he was gone to travel (or the like pretence); insomuch, his relations and friends believing it to be true, looked no farther after him. So that concealing from him his quality and condition and preventing what he could any discovery thereof, his guardian bred him up as his servant and at last made him his huntsman. It happened that one of Mr Bampfeild's (sic) tenants, understanding something of this mistery, made it his business first to find him out and next to discourse with him about it, which in a little time he had an opportunity to do, when acquainting him with his birth and fortunes, it was agreed on between them that he should come at such a time and privately fetch him away. This he did accordingly and so retrieved the right heir of the family".

Wotton (died 1766), later relates the story similarly, with extra details which identify the subject as Richard Bampfield:[28]

• "...but one of his tenants (being his nurse's husband) discovering where he was detained, made him acquainted with his fortune; the truth of which he convinced him of, by a remarkable mole which he had in his back, and brought him away privately to Brimpton, the seat of John Sydenham, Esq., who assiled him in his return to Poltimore, and soon after gave him his daughter in marriage. In confirmation of which, he lies at length, with a hound at his feet, under a monument in Poltimore church. Having received no account from the family, concerning this particular, I do not presume to give it as authentic."

He married Elizabeth Sydenham (died 1599), daughter of Sir John Sydenham of Brympton d'Evercy, Somerset.[29] The couple's monument, dated 1604, survives in Poltimore Church,[30] showing the sculpted stone effigies of Richard and his wife, with the "hound at his feet" mentioned by Worthy. He had nine daughters and three sons, the eldest of whom, Giles Bampfield, died without children during his father's lifetime on a voyage to Ireland.[26]

Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1564–1626)
Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1564–1626), second and eldest surviving son and heir, of Poltimore and North Molton. He was Member of Parliament for Devon in 1597, Sheriff of Devon from 1603 to 1604 and a Deputy Lieutenant in 1616.[31] In 1576 he married Elizabeth Clifton, daughter of Sir John Clifton of Barrington Court, Somerset. By his wife he had six sons and four daughters.

John Bampfylde (c. 1586 – c. 1657)
John Bampfylde (c. 1586 – c. 1657), eldest son and heir, of Poltimore and North Molton, was MP for Tiverton (1621) and Devon (1628–9). In 1602 his father Sir Amyas Bampfylde and Thomas Drake, brother and heir of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, made a double marriage settlement for Bampfylde's eldest son John Bampfylde, then aged 14, and his daughter Jane Bampfield, then aged 16, who were to marry Drake’s daughter and son, with each parent settling £660 on the other’s daughter.[31] He therefore married Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Thomas Drake of Buckland and niece of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, by whom he had children including:

• Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (1590–1650), 3rd and eldest surviving son and heir.[32][33]
• Francis Bampfield (died 1663/4), 6th son,[32] a Nonconformist minister who died in Newgate Prison
• Thomas Bampfield (died 1693), 8th son,[32] MP, briefly Speaker of the House of Commons.

Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (1590–1650)
Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (1590–1650), 3rd and eldest surviving son and heir, MP. He married Gertrude Coplestone (died 1658), a daughter of Amias Coplestone (1582–1621) of Copleston in the parish of Colebrooke and of Warleigh House in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, both in Devon. She was a co-heiress to her brother John Coplestone (1609–1632), and inherited amongst other properties the manor of Tamerton Foliot, which thus passed into the Bampfylde family.[32] His inscribed ledger stone survives, set into the floor of the nave of Poltimore Church.

Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet (c. 1633 – 1692)
Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet (c. 1633 – 1692) (eldest son), was one of the Worthies of Devon of John Prince (died 1723).[34] His father died when he was still a minor. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became a Member, "in the quality of a Nobleman".[35] "How well he answered that title appeared from his very splendid way of living there, and that large and noble plate he left to his College when he went thence, which remained a long while after a monument of his munificence, until at length, with fome other pieces, it was solen away".[35] He returned to Devon during the Commonwealth government of Oliver Cromwell, "But, having a vigorous soul, actuated, even then, with principles of loyalty to his sovereign, though in exile, and of duty to the church, then under a cloud, he became very industrious, with several other persns of honour and quality in these parts, for the happy restoration of both".[35] His arrest was ordered by Cromwell's government, but he hid himself away successfully at Trill, a residence of his friend, Sir John Drake, Baronet. "Notwithstanding any theatening danger that might happen, his generous mind could not be affrighted from following his duty and honour", he joined in the signing of a Remonstrance drawn up at the quarter-sessions in Exeter which demanded a free Parliament, which was supported by much of that city's population. The Remonstrance was presented to Parliament by his uncle Thomas Bampfylde, Recorder of Exeter, and encouraged other towns and cities in England to do likewise. the like, "Whereby the army in and about London, consisting of fourteen thousand odd foot foldiers, were disperfed throughout the kingdom (of which fifteen hundred were sent to Exeter) to prevent the like insurrection as had happened there, elfewhere. Which disperfion, how much it facilitated General Monk's march into London but with seven thousand odd soldiers, and consequently, how greatly this bold and brisk address of our Country Gentlemen, promoted the happy Restoration of Church and State, which soon happened hereupon, is very obvious to observe, if not so easy for envy to acknowledge".[35] It was "this great patriot"[35] Sir Copleston Bampfield who later presented on behalf of the County of Devon a Petition of Right to General Monck, a fellow Devonian, who had landed in Devon with an army "to restore the nation to its right senses". For this he was imprisoned in the Tower of London by the Rump Parliament, but was soon released on the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. He was the first Sheriff of Devon appointed by King Charles II in 1661, "Which office Sir Coplestone executed with great splendor, in an extraordinary number of liveries and attendants"[36] He served as MP for Devon. He was colonel of the Devon Militia until the time of Monmouth's invasion, when he retired due to ill health to be succeeded in the colonelcy by his son. He was at first a supporter of King William of Orange, but later opposed his rule, considering that "matters were carried beyond all imaginations, fearing a change would be made in the fundamental conftitution of the Government" and refused to pay the newly declared rates and taxes, which were therefore enforced on him by a levy of distress upon his goods. He died of gout aged 55 in 1691 at Warleigh and was buried in Poltimore Church. Before his death he charged his family strictly always to continue faithful to the religion of the established Church of England and to pay allegiance to the right heirs of the Crown. He married twice:

• Firstly on 16 November 1655 to Margaret Bulkeley, daughter of Francis Bulkeley of Burgate, Hampshire,[32] by whom he had two sons and a daughter:[37]
  • Col. Hugh Bampfield (died 1690), eldest son and heir apparent, who predeceased his father having died in a fall from his horse.[32] He married Mary Clifford, daughter of James Clifford of Ware, by whom he had 2 sons:
    • Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689 – 1727), eldest son, of Poltimore.
    • John Bampfylde (1691–1750) of Hestercombe, Somerset, 2nd son, MP for Exeter (1715–1722) and for Devon (1736–1741).
  • John Coplestone Bulkeley Bampfield, 2nd son, who died without issue.
  • Margaret Bampfield, died an infant.
• Secondly at Houghton, Devon, on 21 October 1674[37] to Jane Pole, daughter of Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet of Shute, Devon; without children.[37]

Sir Coplestone Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689 – 1727)
Sir Coplestone Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689 – 1727) (grandson). He was a High Tory Member of Parliament for Exeter (1710–1713) and for Devon (1713–1727). As well as having inherited his grandfather's extensive Devonshire estates, including Poltimore and North Molton, he also inherited the estates of his distant cousin Warwick Bampfylde (1623–1695) of Hardington, Somerset (5th in descent from Peter Bampfylde of Hardington, younger brother of Sir William Bampfylde (died 1474) of Poltimore[38]), to whom he acted as executor.[32] He married Gertrude Carew, daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (died 1692) of Antony, Cornwall.

Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baronet (1722–1767)
Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baronet (1722–1767), only son and heir, MP for Exeter (1743–1747) and for Devonshire (1747–1776). He married Jane Codrington (died 1789), daughter and heiress of Colonel John Codrington of Wraxall, Somerset. In 1741 he sold the former Copleston manor and seat of Tamerton Foliot, with its manor house of Warleigh, to Walter Radcliffe, son of Walter Radcliffe of Frankland, Sheriff of Devon in 1696.[39] In 1741 his seats were Copleston and Poltimore in Devon and Hardington in Somerset.[40]

Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5th Baronet (1753–1823)
Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5th Baronet (1753–1823), 2nd and eldest surviving son and heir, who served twice as Member of Parliament for Exeter, in 1774–1790 and 1796–1812.[41] He married Catharine Moore, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet.

George Bampfylde, 1st Baron Poltimore (1786–1858)
Sir George Warwick Bampfylde, 6th Baronet (1786–1858) (created Baron Poltimore in 1831). In 1844 he sold the manor of Weston Bampfylde in Somerset, which his family had held since the 13th century.[42]

Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde, 2nd Baron Poltimore (1837–1908)
Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde, 2nd Baron Poltimore (1837–1908); only son of the 1st Baron

Coplestone Richard George Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baron Poltimore (1859–1918)
Coplestone Richard George Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baron Poltimore (1859–1918); eldest son of the 2nd Baron

George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baron Poltimore (1882–1965)
George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baron Poltimore (1882–1965); eldest son of the 3rd Baron. In 1920 he sold the Poltimore estate but the house and grounds failed to find a buyer. The house was let to Poltimore College, a girls' school which closed in 1939. In 1940 the boys from Dover College were evacuated to Poltimore House, which became a private hospital in 1945 which was taken over by the National Health Service when it came into existence in 1948. It closed as a hospital in 1974. Soon after the accidental death in 1936 of his only son and heir apparent, he also sold most of the North Molton estate and moved to Rhodesia in Africa. In 1968 his widow's residence was Benwell, Bindura, Rhodesia.[43] The remnant of the North Molton estate, including Court House, the manor house, he gave to his daughter (by his first wife) Hon. Sheila Margaret Warwick Bampfylde, the wife of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet of Affeton Castle and Hartland Abbey in Devon. The 4th Baron married twice:

• Firstly in 1910 Cynthia Rachel Lascelles (died 1961), daughter of Hon. Gerald William Lascelles, a younger son of the Earl of Harewood, by whom he had children:
  • Hon. Coplestone John de Grey Warwick Bampfylde (1914–1936), only son and heir apparent, an officer in the Royal Horseguards,[44] who predeceased his father, having died aged 23 in a horse-racing accident.
  • Hon. Sheila Margaret Warwick Bampfylde (born 1912), the wife of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet (1907–1983) of Affeton Castle and Hartland Abbey in Devon, by whom she had a son and heir Sir Hugh George Copplestone Bampfylde Stucley, 6th Baronet (born 1945).
• Secondly in 1962 to Barbara Pitcairn Nicol, daughter of Peter Nicol of Kirkintilloch, Scotland.

Arthur Blackett Warwick Bampfylde, 5th Baron Poltimore (1883–1967)
Arthur Blackett Warwick Bampfylde, 5th Baron Poltimore (1883–1967); younger brother, 2nd son of 3rd Baron

Hugh de Burgh Warwick Bampfylde, 6th Baron Poltimore (1888–1978)
Hugh de Burgh Warwick Bampfylde, 6th Baron Poltimore (1888–1978); younger brother, 3rd and youngest son of 3rd Baron. In 1968 his residence was The Ancient House, Peasenhall, Saxmundham, Suffolk.[45]

Mark Coplestone Bampfylde, 7th Baron Poltimore (born 1957)
Mark Coplestone Bampfylde, 7th Baron Poltimore (born 1957); eldest grandson of the 6th Baron.
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Poltimore
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The visitation of the county of Devon in the year 1564 : with additions from the earlier visitation of 1531 / [by William Harvey] ; Edited by Frederic Thomas Colby
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Pollard.
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Anthony Pollard. = Petronell, d of James Chudleigh of Asheton, Esq. ch: Anne mar. Alex. Wollacombe ; Joan mar. Nich. Esse of Slowcombe. ; Grace mar. John Burnebye. ; Richard mar. Joan Bamfield. ; Thomazine mar. Walter Babington. ; Mary mar. Eyre. ; Alice mar. Gay of Goldworthy.

• Richard Pollarde = Joan d. of Edw. Bamfield. ch: William, 2. ; Henry, 3. ; John, 4. ; (Alexander.2) ; Edmond, 6. ; Anthony 1. ; Anne mar. Hugh Bury of Collyton. ; Petronell. ; Ursula. ; Frances. ; Elizabeth.

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The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's ..., Volumes 1-7
edited by John Lambrick Vivian
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BAMFIELD OF POLTIMORE.
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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)
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The name of Bampfylde, which was spelt "Bampfield" by the fifth Baronet, who died in 1823, and Bamfield at the creation of that title in 1641, has been also variously written Bamfeild, Bamfeld, Baunfelde, and Baunfeld.
John de Baunfelde, the father of the first Baunfelde of Poltimore, by his wife Joan de Hastyngs, appears to have been settled in the parish of Weston Baunfell, or Baunville, now Bamfyld in Somersetshire, and was most probabaly a cadet of the house of Bonville, derived from Sir Nicholas Bonville, who was a landowner in that county as early as the first year of King John, and took his surname either from "Bonneville" in Savoy, or else from the town of the same name in the fertle province of Beauce, on the confines of the Isle of France. The "son" (or grandson ?) of Sir Nicholas, Sir William Bonville,
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recovered his lands in Somerset upon the customary homage and service, in 1265, and was the grandfather of Nicholas Bonville, who married Avis, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Pyne of Shute,* and died in 1294, leaving issue, Sir Nicholas, father of Sir William Bonville of Shute (an estate long subsequently, and after attainder, acquired from Petre, by Pole), the ancestor of William, Lord Bonville of Chewton, who was summoned to Parliament, as a baron, 28 Henry VI., and also a second son, John Bonville, who is said+ to have married Joan, daughter of Waryn Hampton, of Musbury, and to have died without issue.++
"John Bamfielde of Poltimore," who commences the pedigree recorded by the Heralds at the Devonshire Visitation of 1620, married Ellinor, daughter of Sir Humphry Beauchamp, of Ryme, and is named as "Lord of Poltimore" in the year 1316.S He had a son of the same name, who married Isabella, daughter of John Cobham, by his wife Anne Bollay, and who presented to Poltimore Rectory, 5th March, 1340-41. His son and heir, also called John, married Joan, daughter of Geoffrey Gilbert and was dead, 13th November, 1360, when the said Joan, as "relict of John Bampfeld the elder," presented William Seger to the rectory of Poltimore. Consequently her son Thomas, who married a "daughter of Coplestone, must have been also dead at that date, but the latter's son and heir, "John Baunfeld, Esq.," was of full age, 7th November, 1361, when he gave the family living to a certain J. de Cobham, who was doubtless his kinsman. This "John Baunfield, Esq." married Joane, daughter of Sir
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Richard Merton,* but died at a very early age, on which account his father-in-law, 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,+ 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," resented to Poltimore 24 September, 1404, and to Huxham, as "true patron" 3rd February in the same year.++ 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: -

• MC.C.XC."

"Hic jacent Johes Baunfeld et Agnes uxor ejus, Pater et Mater Willi Baunfeld, qui hanc Ecclesiam et maximan Campanam fieri fecerunt."
Their son, Sir William Bamfield,S 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,
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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. His son and heir, Richard Bamfeild, who was an only child and but two years of age at his father's death, was presumably, the hero of a sensational story which has been handed down to us by John Prince, the author of the "Worthies of Devon," published in 1701, and which he tells us is "a most memorable passage of undoubted credit," and to the effect that "one of the heir of the house, not many generations back," being ward to "some very great person in the east country," was taken away in his infancy, and brought up in ignorance of his real position and prospects. He was trained to be a servant, and when discovered by one of his late father's tenantry, was employed as huntsman in his said guardian's establishment. The Poltimore farmer is then said to have abducted him, to have taken him before th proper authorities, and to have duly established the right of his young landlord to his inheritance.
This Richard Bamfeild, at the age of fifty, became Sheriff of Devon in the eighteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. His mother, a widow, at the time of her second marriage, was a daughter of Nicholas Wadham, of Merrifield, co. Somerset, and his wife was a daughter of Sir John Sydenham of the same county; by her he had a family of twelve children, viz., nine daughters and three sons. The eldest of the latter, Giles, predeceased him, having been drowned during his passage to Ireland, so he was succeeded in 1594 by his second son Amias, then over thirty years of age, who was Sheriff of the county in 1603, and was knighted that same year at Windsor.* He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Clifton, of Barrington, Somerset, and had ten children; one of
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his daughters married the nephew of the great Sir Francis Drake, who was created a baronet in 1622, and whose sister, Elizabeth, was the wife of his eldest son and successor, John Bamfeild, of Poltimore, who was born about 1590. The latter also had a large family, fifteen children; one of the daughters, Dorothy, was the wife of Henry Worth, of Worth. The sixth son, Francis was a Nonconformist minister, and died in Newgate Gaol in the spring of 1604; the eighth son, Thomas Bampfield, was Recorder of Exeter during the Usurpation, and member of Exeter in 1656. The third son, John Bamfield, was created a baronet 14th July, 1641, and through the deaths of his two elder brothers, Amias and Arthur, succeeded to Poltimore at his father's death, and married Gertrude, sister and co-heir of John Coplestone, of Warleigh. During the great rebellion this first baronet was active on the side of the Parliament, and Poltimore House was garrisoned by Fairfax in 1645; its owner died in 1650, aged forty, when he was succeeded by his son Sir Coplestone Bampfield, the eldest of a family of nineteen, and who was zealous for the Restoration of monarchy as his sire had been for its overthrow, and who was duly "pricked" Sheriff of Devon as soon as the king "came home again." etc.
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'Bampfylde1'
Families covered: Bampfield of Hardington, Bampfield (Bamfield or Bampfylde) of Poltimore
(1) Westcote spells the family name as "Bampfield" whilst Vivian uses 'Bamfield" or "Bamfeild" then "Bampfield" with "Bampfylde" being used for the first time with the 1st Lord. Wotton mostly uses "Baumfilde" then "Bampfylde". We use Bampfylde for the page title as that is what is used in BP1934 (Poltimore).
(2) BP1934 reports that the manor of Poltimore has been possessed by this family since the reign of Edward I (who r. 1272-1307) but, other than mentioning John (m. Eleanor Beauchamp), starts its pedigree with the Amias shown at the top of Bampfylde2.
(3) There has been some confusion with & between the early generations of this family. We show what is reported by Vivian but report also what is shown by the other Main Sources.
John Baunfeld or Baumfilde (a temp John who r. 1199-1216) mentioned by Vivian (named) & Wotton (unnamed)
m. Joan Hastings (dau of John Hastings)
Wotton inserts 2 extra generations here: an unnamed Baumfilde who married the de Hockisham heiress (presumably the Hoxham/Huxham heiress shown by Vivian/Westcote as some generations later) then John Baumfilde of Poltimore (temp Edward I) who m. Isabel, dau of John Faber (presumably the Faber connection shown by Vivian/Westcote as some generations later).

• 1. John Bampfield of Poltimore the first mentioned by Westcote
• m. Eleanor Beauchamp (dau of Sir Humfrey Beauchamp of Ryme)
  • A. John Bampfield of Poltimore
  • m. Joan Martin (dau of Sir Richard Martin (or Merton or Moreton), m2. Sir James Chudleigh, m3. Sir John de la Pomeroy)
  • Wotton inserts 2 extra generations here: John (m. Isabella, dau of John de Cobham) and John (m1. Joanna, dau of Geoffrey Gilbert of Compton (mother also of John who dsp); m2. (sp?) Joanna Hastings). Vivian shows the next generation as ...
    • i. Thomas Bampfield of Poltimore this generation shown by Vivian & Wotton but not by Westcote
    • m. Agnes Copleston (dau of Adam Copleston)
      • a. John Bampfield of Poltimore this generation shown earlier by Wotton
      • m. Joane Hoxham (dau/heir of John Hoxham or Huxham)
        • (1) Thomas Bampfield of Poltimore this generation shown earlier by Wotton
          • m. Agnes Faber (dau/coheir of John Faber)
            • (A) John Bampfield of Poltimore this generation shown by Vivian & Westcote but not by Wotton
            • m. Joane
              • (i) John Bampfield of Poltimore
              • Wotton just identifies John's wife as Agnes, dau of John de Pederton. Except that Westcote shows Agnes's mother's family name as Turvey rather than Turney, Vivian & Wescote identify her as ...
              • m. Agnes Pederton (dau/heir of John Pederton by Cecily, dau/heir of John Turney son/heir of Simon son/heir of Sir Simon Turney)
                • (a) Sir William Bampfield of Poltimore, Sheriff of Devon (d by 1475)
                • This generation is shown by Vivian & Wotton but not by Westcote. Wotton shows his son Walter as father rather than elder brother of the William who m1. Margaret St. Maur m2. Margaret Kirkham. We are following Vivian.
                • m. Margaret Pauncefoote (dau of Walter Pauncefoote of Compton)
                  • ((1)) Walter Bampfield of Poltimore (b c1447, d 01.09.1478) not mentioned by Westcote
                  • m1. (sp) Constance Langsford (dau of Edward Langsford)
                  • m2. Grace Pudsey (dau of Sir Ralph Pudsey, m2. Sir Roger Tetcote)
                    • ((A)) Andrew Bamfield (dsp (young?))
                  • ((2)) William Bampfield of Poltimore
                  • m1. Margaret St. Maur (dau of John St. Maur (Seymour))
                    • ((A)) Sir Edward Bampfield of Poltimore (d 20.05.1528)
                    • Westcote identifies Edward's wife as Elizabeth, dau of Sir Richard Wadham of Merryfield and relict of _ Warr of Somerset. BE1883 (St. Maur) identifies her as dau of Sir Michael Wadham. It seems that there was no Sir Richard or Sir Michael Wadhams of Merryfield around this time so we follow Vivian & Wotton (supported by the Warre records) in identifying her as ...
                    • m. Elizabeth Wadham (dau of Sir Nicholas Wadham, widow of John Warre)
                      • ((i)) Richard Bampfield of Politmore, Sheriff of Devon (b c1526, d 25.05.1594)
                      • m. Elizabeth Sydenham (d 04.05.1599, dau of John Sydenham (Sidnam) of Brimpton)
                        • ((a)) Sir Amias Bampfield or Bampfylde of Poltimore (b c1564, d 09.02.1625-6, 2nd son)
                        • m. Elizabeth Clifton (dau of Sir John Clifton of Barrington)
                        • ((b)) Elizabeth Bampfield
                        • m. George Cary of Clovelly
                        • ((c)) Johanna/Joan Bampfield see ## below
                        • ((d)) Ursula Bampfield
                        • m. Thomas Fulford of Fulford (b c1553, d 31.07.1610)
                        • ((e)) Susan Bampfield
                        • Wotton shows Susan m. John Hicks of Witheridge. Vivian & Westcote report that she married ...
                        • m1. John Hays of Myll
                        • m2. _ Simcock
                        • ((f)) Mary Bampfield
                        • m1. Humphrey Moor of Moorhays
                        • m2. Richard Bowden (parson of Okehampton)
                        • ((g)) Gertrude Bampfield
                        • m. John Harding of Longbrady
                        • ((h)) Ann Bampfield
                        • m1. Christopher Morgan of Maperton
                        • m2. _ Luttrell (Lutterel)
                        • ((i)) Margaret Bampfield
                        • m. William Lacy of Hartrow
                        • ((j))+ other issue - Giles (dvpsp), Richard, Katharine (d unm)
                      • ((ii)) Laurencia Bampfield
                      • m1. John Bidwell
                      • m2. Robert Fulford
                      • ((iii)) Joan Bampfield
                      • m(1). Richard Pollard of Horwood
                      • All 3 of our Main Sources show Joan as married only to Richard Pollard (by whom she had 9 children). Vivian shows a Johanna of the next generation (dau of John) as married to Hugh Gifford (see ## above). Wotton & Westcote also show a Johanna/Joan in the next generation but do not show her as having married. [Vivian also shows another Joane (dau of John) of 4 generations later as m. Hugh Gifford (see ## on Bampfylde2).] In his work on 'Giffard of Halsbury' (p400) Vivian identifies the wife of Hugh Giffard of St. Giles as "Joane da. of John Bamfeild of Poltimore, relict of Richard Pollard of Horwood". That Hugh must have been born c1530 and so his wife, who bore him (at least) 4 children, is shown as this Joan even though her father was called Edward.
                      • m2. Hugh Giffard of St. Giles
                      • ((iv)) Katherine Bampfield
                      • m. Erasmus Pym of Brymmore
                      • ((v)) Elizabeth Bampfield
                      • m. George Percival (d c1599)
                      • ((vi)) Mary Bampfield
                      • m. William Warder of Hampshire
                    • ((B)) Elizabeth Bampfield
                    • m. _ Lye
                    • ((C)) Margaret Bampfield
                    • m. Richard Yard of Bradley & Churchton
                  • m2. Margaret Kirkham (dau of Nicholas Kirkham of Blakedon, widow of John Chenye of Pinho)
                • (b) Richard Bampfield of Hardington, Somerset (d before 07.06.1499)
                • m. Maria (d before 07.02.1508-9)
                • The following is partly supported by Visitation (Somerset, 1623, Bamfield).
                  • ((1)) John Bampfield of Hardington (d 10.10.1528)
                  • m. Joan Gawen (dau of John Gawen)
                    • ((A)) Thomas Bampfield of Hardington (b c1498?)
                      • ((i)) John Bampfield of Hardington
                      • m. Meliora Webb (dau of William Webb of Motcombe juxta Shafton)
                        • ((a)) Thomas Bampfield 'of Hardington' (d before 16.08.1656)
                        • m. Elizabeth Rogers (dau of Edward Rogers of Cannington)
                          • (((1))) Margaret Bampfield
                          • m. James Drax
                          • (((2)))+ other issue - John (b c1621, d before 07.1661), Warwick (b c1621, d before 05.09.1695), Edward
                        • ((b)) Catherine Bampfield
                        • m. Henry Forster of Meere
                        • ((c)) Meliora Bampfield
                        • m. John Farwell of Bristol
                        • ((d))+ other issue - John (b c1599, a 1623), George (b c1601, a 1651), Mary (dsp), Elizabeth (dsp)
                      • ((ii)) Walter Bampfield
                      • m. Joan
                        • ((a))+ issue - John, Thomas, Alice
                      • ((iii))+ other issue - Richard, Emma
                    • ((B)) William Bampfield of Turnworth
                    • m. Elizabeth
                      • ((i)) Mary Bampfield
                      • m. William Frere of Water Eaton
                      • ((ii)) Edith Bampfield
                      • m. Christopher Twinyho
                    • ((C)) Elizabeth Bampfield (Banfylde) possibly fits here
                    • m. John Bushe of Dylton (a 1558, 1565)
                    • ((D))+ other issue - Robert, Hugh of Cadbury, Nicholas of Flyntford, Anne, Joan, Isabell, Dorothy, Mary
                  • ((2))+ other issue - Avice, Elizabeth, Margaret
                • (c) Elizabeth Bampfield
                • m. Henry Francis of Killerton (Frauncis of Combflory)
                • (d) Thomasine Bampfield
                • m. Walter Pauncefoote
              • (ii) Thomas Bampfield
            • (B) Richard Bampfield (d 15.03.1429)
            • (C) Johanna Bampfield
            • m. John Thorne
            • (D) Agnes Bampfield
            • m. John Prouse or Prouz of Esterval
            • (E) Maud or Alice Bampfield
            • m. Thomas Dennis of Holcombe Burnel
          • (2) John Bampfield
        • b.+ other issue - Thomas (d young, elder brother of John), Alice, Joanna, Agnes shown by Wotton

Main source(s): "A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX, with a Pedigree of most of its Gentry" by Thomas Westcote (as edited by Rev. George Oliver & Pitman Jones, 1845), Visitation (J.L. Vivian (1895), Devon, 1531+1564+1620+additions, 'Bamfield of Poltimore'), Wotton (vol 1, Kimber & Johnson edition 1771, 'Bampfylde of Poltimore', p374+)
https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/bb4ae/bampfylde1.php#top
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