Jane Fortescue

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1485

Jane married John Cobley about 1501. John (son of John Cobley and Alice Cockworthy) was born about 1479 in of Brightley in Chittlehampton, Devon, England; died on 24 Oct 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Cobley was born about 1502 in of Brightley in Chittlehampton, Devon, England; died before 15 Oct 1547.

William married Elizabeth Champernowne. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Champernoun and Elizabeth Reynell) was born about 1465 in of Inceworth in Maker, Cornwall, England; died before 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 11 Mar 1481

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"Not to be confused with his 1st cousin, Sir John Fortescue, lawyer who became Chief Justice in England." [Ancestral Roots] This confusion is present in A History of the Family of Fortescue in All its Branches, citation details below.

John married Joan Prutteston before 1451. Joan (daughter of John Prutteston) was born in of Preston in Ermington, Devon, England; died on 23 May 1501; was buried in St. George's Churchyard, Modbury, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Elizabeth Reynell. Elizabeth (daughter of Walter Reynell and Joan Walrond) was born in of Malston, Sherford, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud Falwell before 1411. Maud (daughter of John Falwell) died after 8 Nov 1421. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Mabel, or Mabilla. Or Fawell.

John married Margaret Hamley. Margaret (daughter of Arthur Hamley and Isabel) was born in 1409 in of Halwyn in St. Issey, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Knight of the shire for Totnes in 1447 and Devon in 1453.

Pole makes him a son of his father's third wife, Joan Bassingbourne, but the HoP makes his father's second wife his mother.

Walter married Joan Walrond. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1409
• Alternate death: Aft 1411

William married Elizabeth Beauchamp. Elizabeth (daughter of John de Beauchamp and Margaret de Whalesborough) was born in of Whympston in Modbury, Devon, England; died after 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1411

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Or Fawell.

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• Alternate birth: of Modbury, Devon, England
• Alternate death: Aft 26 Feb 1419

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"On the Sunday following his baptism, his great-grandfather and godfather, Sir Richard Lovel, held a feast at la Mersh, by Wyncaulton for all who attended to bear witness to this event. He was a knight by 27 May 1379 and served as Sheriff of Devonshire 1368-69, 1381-82, and 1387-88." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below]

Richard Champernoun was the direct ancestor of several well-known adventurer-explorers.

Ancestor of Sir Walter Ralegh:

Richard Champernoun (d. 1419) = Alice Astley
Joan Champernoun (d. 1419) = John Courtenay (d. <1406)
Philip Courtenay (1404-1476) = Elizabeth Hungerford (d. 1476)
Philip Courtenay (1430-1489) = Elizabeth Wonwell (1432-1482)
Margaret Courtenay (d. 1527) = John Champernowne (1458-1503)
Philip Champernowne (d. 1545) = Catherine Carew (d. 1546)
Katherine Champernowne (d. 1594) = Walter Ralegh (1505-1581)
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618)

And of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, a man loathsome even by the standards of imperialist chancers:

Richard Champernoun (d. 1419) = Alice Astley
Joan Champernoun (d. 1419) = John Courtenay (d. <1406)
Philip Courtenay (1404-1476) = Elizabeth Hungerford (d. 1476)
Philip Courtenay (1430-1489) = Elizabeth Wonwell (1432-1482)
Margaret Courtenay (d. 1527) = John Champernowne (1458-1503)
Philip Champernowne (d. 1545) = Catherine Carew (d. 1546)
Katherine Champernowne (d. 1594) = Otho Gilbert (d. 1547)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583)

And ancestor of Francis Champernowne and his father Arthur Champernowne, both of whom were associates of Sir Ferdinando Gorges in his early efforts to settle and develop the coasts of what are now Massachusetts and Maine. Gorges was married to Mary Fulford, sister of Arthur Champernowne's wife Bridget Fulford. Francis settled permanently in Massachusetts in 1637.

Richard Champernoun (d. 1419) = Alice Astley
Joan Champernoun (d. 1419) = John Courtenay (d. <1406)
Philip Courtenay (1404-1476) = Elizabeth Hungerford (d. 1476)
Philip Courtenay (1430-1489) = Elizabeth Wonwell (1432-1482)
Margaret Courtenay (d. 1527) = John Champernowne (1458-1503)
Philip Champernowne (d. 1545) = Catherine Carew (d. 1546)
Arthur Champernowne (1524-1578) = Mary Norreys (d. 1570)
Gawen Champernowne (1554-1591) = Roberta d'Orge
Arthur Champernowne (1580-1650) = Bridget Fulford
Francis Champernowne (1614-1687)

It's notable that the Champernoun family was rich, and rich for a long time. In the direct male line, the earliest known individual, Jordan de Cambernon (d. >1172), married a granddaughter of Henry I. His 3XG-grandson Richard de Champernoun married a granddaughter of King John. So why did Arthur Champernowne and his son Francis involve themselves in the risky, high-stakes business of financing fishing colonies in Newfoundland and on the coast of Maine? The answer is, because their line of Champernowns had lost all their money.

Arthur's maternal grandfather, remarkably, was Gabriel d'Orge, count of Montgomery, who at a joust in 1559 accidentally killed Henri II, king of France. Despite the dying king's forgiveness, so traumatized was the count by this -- and so immediate and complete was his exclusion from French courtly society -- that in due course he converted to Protestantism and became a leader of the Huguenots. He was one of the few Huguenots to escape the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, from which he fled to England. The queen mother, Catherine de Medici, demanded his extradition, which Elizabeth I refused. In 1573, d'Orge raised a fleet in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve the siege of La Rochelle. The next year, he tried to raise an insurrection in Normandy but was captured and executed. Just before his execution he was told that all his property and that of his children would be confiscated and all their titles stripped.

(All of which sounds remarkably like a Dumas novel, and in fact a novel about Gabriel, The Two Dianas (1846-47) was published with Dumas' name on it, albeit mostly or entirely written by his friend and collaborator Paul Meurice.)

The count's daughter Roberta had married the Devon squire Gawen Champernowne, father of Arthur, and Gawen had become a close ally of the count. Now their branch of the family was substantially penniless. It's little wonder that Arthur and Francis looked to the potential riches of the New World, despite the risks involved.

Richard married Katherine Daubeney before 13 Aug 1394. Katherine (daughter of Giles Daubeney and Eleanor de Wilington) was born in of South Ingleby, Lincolnshire, England; died before 1419; was buried in Dodbrooke, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Feb 1419

Arthur married Isabel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Badlingham, Cambridgeshire, England
• Alternate birth: of East Ogwell, Devon, England

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MP for Devon in Oct 1404.

Walter married Margaret Stigill before 1383. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Stighull, or Styl.

John married Margaret de Whalesborough about 1340. Margaret (daughter of John de Whalesborough) died after 24 Dec 1355. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Whalesburgh.

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• Alternate death: Aft 12 Nov 1387

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Sheriff of Devon in 1362-63 and 1367-68. Escheator for Devon, 1369-71.

Thomas married Eleanor Rohaut. Eleanor (daughter of Roger Rohaut and Eleanor Lovel) died before Apr 1369 in year only.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Rohant, Rohart.

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"Sir Giles Daubeney, of South Ingleby, South Petherton, &c., and h., by 1st wife. On 14 Oct. 1351 he had letters stating that, though born out of the King's allegiance, he might nevertheless enjoy his inheritance. In Oct. 1357 he bought the manors of Kempston, Beds, and Tottenham, Middlesex, from William Daubeney and Philippe his wife, for 200 marks. Sheriff of Beds and Bucks, 1379-80. Knight of the Shire for Somerset, 1382, 1383, and 1384. He m., soon after 5 Jan. 1358/9, Alianore, da. of Sir Henry de Wilington, of Umberleigh, Devon, Poulton, co. Gloucester, &c., by Isabel, da. of Sir John de Walesbreu, of Lamellen and Lancarfe, Cornwall. He d. 24 June 1386, at Barrington, Somerset. 1386. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 8 Aug. 1386. She d. 6 Aug 1400, and was bur. at Kempston." [Complete Peerage IV:97-8]

Giles married Eleanor de Wilington after 5 Jan 1359. Eleanor (daughter of Henry de Wilington and Isabel de Whalesborough) died on 6 Aug 1400; was buried in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to Vivian, he was knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire in 1351.

John married Maude de Fulburne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or William Styl, Stighull. Said by Vivian to have been "armiger."

William married Elizabeth Malston. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]