Gervaise de Hornacote

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹¹⁷¹
Roger Carmynowe [Assize Roll 12 Edw. I,] son of Roger Carmynowe, married Sarra, daughter and coheir of Gervais Hernacote. She was heir to her niece Margery, daughter of her sister Cenota. [Assize Roll 30 Edw. I, 1302] Gervais Hornacote, son of Robert de Tintaioel, is recorded in the Assize Roll 30 Edw. I and Ped. fin 40 Hen III, No. 23, as holding five fees in Hornicote and Tintaioel (Tintagel) [Testa de Nevil].

~The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, p. 72

• Web Reference: Tintagel Castle.
In 1225 Richard, 1^st Earl of Cornwall, swapped the land of Merthen (originally part of the manor of Winnianton) with Gervase de Tintagel for Tintagel Castle.

• Web Reference: History of Tintagel Castle.
"In May 1233 the newly created Earl of Cornwall, Richard, brother of Henry III, bought the 'Island of Tyntagel', together with 'Richard's castle', from Gervase de Tyntagel (whose father, Robert, had changed the family surname from Hornicote to Tintagel). [Cartulary (c 1300) of Edmund earl of Cornwall: National Archives, E36/57, folios 18v and 44v.] 'Richard's castle' was presumably built by the earl himself, and if so was begun between 1225, when King Henry granted him the county of Cornwall, and 1233, when the transaction took place."