Sir Walter de Cornwall Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁹
"Wolmerston was aunciently thenheritanc of Peverell, of Stanford, and given by Sir Hugh Peverell (to) his younger sonne, w^ch had issue Sir Richard, w^ch by Matild his wief, had issue Sir Hugh, w^ch by Margaret, daughter and heire of Sir Walter Cornwall, had issue Sir Hugh, who by Elisabeth, one of the daughter and heire of Sir Walter Cornwall, had issue Sir Hugh, w^ch by Elizabeth one of the daughters of Sir John Cobham, of Blackburgh Bolhay, and Amy Bolhay his wief, had issue Sir Thomas Peverell, who by Margaret daughter and one of the heires of of Sir Thomas Courtenay, had issue Elinor (Katherine) wief of Walter Lord Hungerford."

Pole's Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, p. 227

• Background Information. ⁵⁹⁹
Sir Walter of Cornwall, Knight, of Brannel, Cornwall, Knight of the Shire for Cornwall, Coroner of Cornwall, was the illegitimate son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, Count of Poitou and a unknown mistress. Richard the Earl of Cornwall was the son of King John of England by his wife Isabel of Angoulême. The name of Sir Walter is unknown, but they had one son, William, and one daughter Margaret.

~Richardson's Plantagenêt Ancestry, p. 286