Ricahrd Fortescue

  Noted events in his life were:

• Pedigree. ¹¹⁹⁹
Pedigree from Vivian's The Visitation of Devon, pp. 352-353

Sir Richard le Fort^[1]
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Sir Adam Fortescue^[1]
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Ralph Fortescue, granted land to Modbury Priory by deed dated 1135 ^[1]
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Richard Fortescue, confirmed the grant made by his father to Modbury Priory ^[1]
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William Fortescue ^[1]
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Sir John Fortescue, had a grant of Wymondston or Wymston from King John [Letters Patent 10 John, Palgrave's Rot Cor Reg., ii, 201] he had two brothers, Sir Richard and Sir Nicholas
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Richard Fortescue, son of Sir John, of Winstone, 37 Hen, III
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Sir Adam Fortescue, Knight
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Sir Adam Fortescue, Knight, Deed 30 Edw. I
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Adam Fortescue=Anna, daughter and coheir of William de la Port of Old Port
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William, ^[2] brother of Nicholas and Richard, Fortescue of Winston, paid a contribution on one knight's fee at the knighthood of Edward the Black Prince, Deed 43 Edw III=Alice daughter of Walter Strechleigh
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William Fortescue=Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John and sister and coheir of Thomas Beauchamp of Ryme, widow of branscombe, Assigned dower, 18 Rich. II
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William Fortescue of Winston=Isabel or Mabel, daughter and heir of John Falwell
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John Fortescue, of Wymston, M.P. for Totues, Travistock and Plympton=Jane, daughter and heir of John Preston, survived her husband, died 23 May 1501. Inq.p.m. 16 Hen. VII, No. 37

[1] No records showing that these two existed, rather more of a legend.
[2] The Devonshire Wills includes a missing William who was alive in 1392 inbetween this William and the next.

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁵⁹
Sir John Fortescue, son of William, son of Richard, is supposed to have become settled upon the Manor of Wimpston in Modbury, in 1208, by virtue of a "grant" from the Crown, but which was doubtless a mere confirmation of a previous grant by the Valletorts to one of his ancestors, as his son, another Richard held the same in 1252, as "one knight's fee of the barony of Reginald Valletort, whose ancestor, Reginald de Valletort, had been sub-tenant of the same manor under Robert of Mortain,, to whom it have been given by King William."

~Devonshire Wills, pp. 456-460

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁶²
King John, by his letters patent dated in the 10^th year of his reign, enfeoffed therewith John Fortescue, after whom it came to his son Sir Richard and after his to Adam Fortescue, who was dead in 31 Edw. I. for then it was specified he held Wymonston by one knight's-fee of the honour of Tremeton. His son and heir was another Adam, who rants to Henry Lopperigge seven shillings annual rent, which Richard, the son of Philip Gretun, used to pay him for his tenement at Wymonston ; witnesses, Sir Andrew Trelesk, Peter de Prideaux, &c. dated at Wymonston, Friday next following te feast of St. Ambrose (April 4) 1302, the 30^th of King Edward, son of Henry. To the deed is an oval seal affixed, whereon was the badge of a star, and circumscribed Sigillum Adæ Fortescu.

Collin's Peerage of England, Vol. VII, 391-395