William Fortescue

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁵⁹
Three Adam Fortescues follow Richard, son of Sir John Fortescue. The third Adam married Anna, daughter of "William de la Port, of Old Port," and they had sons, Richard, Nicholas and their heir William Fortescue, of Wimpston, who paid his "knith's fee in 1345, at the ceremony of the knighthood of the 'Black Prince." Wimpston was being held by him as "of the honor of Tremation" in Cornwal, which had also belonged to Robert, Earl of Corwall and Mortain, and was one of the two castles and the head of his honour in that county. This William Fortescue married Alice, daughter of Walter Strechleigh, of Strechleigh, in the parish of Erminton and thus obtained lands in Tamerton. In 1360, by grant of William's kinsman, Richard Malduit, aliam Somaster, whose mother had been a co-heir of de la Port, he had a further extension of property in the form of tenements at Old Port, in Modbury, and Painston.

~Devonshire Wills, pp. 456-460

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁶²
The second Adam Fortescue was succeeded by his son an heir, another Adam, who married Anne, daughter and coheir to William Delport, of Old Port, in com' Devon, by whom he had three sons, William, Richard, and Nicholas.

Which William, at making the King's eldest son a Knight, in 19 Edw. III, paid for one knight's-fee in Wymondeston, held of Tremeton, which Adam de Fortescu held. In 28 Edw. III, William witnessed a deed of Walter de Strechlegh, whereby he enfeoffed his land in Strechlegh, Forsan, Cokesland, Broke, Dunstan, and Tamerton, on the daughter of the said Walter named Alice, whom William Fortesue married, and had issue of a son also named William. In 48 Edw. III, William Coffin, son and heir of Walter Coffin, grants land in Strechlegh, Forsan, Cokesland, Broke, Boraton, Tamerton and Dunstan, to Walter de Strechlegh, and his heirs, in default to William Fortescu, son of William and Alice, the daughter of Walter de Strechlegh, and to the heirs of their two bodies. In 50 Edw. III, William Fortescu and Walter Strechlegh, grant to William Yearle, vicar of the church of Valhamton, an annual rest of 40s. sterling, to be received out of their lands on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, for the term of twenty-one years, sealed with three seals of arms annexed, the middlemost being the arms the Fortesue family bears.

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