Isolde de Pyn

Notes:

Also called Isolda de Bathonia.

She was "the great-niece of Stephen Heym, steward of the earl of Cornwall in the 1260s and a prominent ecclesiastic", according to The Bodrugans: A Study of a Cornish Medieval Knightly Family by James Whetter, quoted by Pat Patterson [citation details below].

Family/Spouse: Roger de Bodrugan. Roger (son of Philip de Bodrugan and Rosa) was born about 1235 in of Bodrugan, Cornwall, England; died between 1271 and 1277. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isolde married Henry V de Pomeroy before 1277. Henry (son of Henry IV de Pomeroy) was born about 1236 in of Berry Pomeroy, Totnes, Devon, England; died before 12 Jul 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isolde married Walter de Aylesbury before 1303. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1262 and 1265
• Alternate birth: 1263, Bodrugan, Cornwall, England
• Alternate death: Between 29 Oct 1308 and 23 Jan 1309
• Alternate death: Jan 1309

Notes:

"It should be noted that the Register of Walter Bronescombe calls him son and heir of Philip de Bodrugan; this is clearly an error and should properly be grandson and heir." [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.]

From The Complete Peerage II:199:

Henry Bodrigan was sum. to Parl.. 26 Oct 1309, by a writ directed 'Henrico de Bodrigan', but he had been dead 9 months when the writ issued (a). [...]

He m., before 26 Oct 1288, Sibyl, widow of Piers le Power, sister and heir of Walter de Mandeville. She, who was then aged over 24, was living 18 July 1304, but d. in or before 1308. He had livery of her lands and of those of his uncle, William Bodrigan, in 1308. He d. Jan 1308/9. Writ for IPM, 23 Jan, 2 Edw. II. None of his descendants were sum. to Parl.

(a) Although the House of Lords has been very liberal in conferring peerages on gentlemen living about this time, who would have been much surprised to learn that they enjoyed that honour, yet the House has never yet held that a summons to a dead man created an hereditary Barony descendible to heirs general.

Henry married Sybil de Mandeville before 26 Oct 1288. Sybil (daughter of (Unknown) de Mandeville and Alice Giffard) was born on 29 Sep 1264; died before 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geoffrey d'Aumarle. Geoffrey (son of William de Albemarle) was born in of Woodbury, St. Thomas, Devon, England; died in 1320. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1333

Family/Spouse: Henry de Campo Arnulphi. Henry (son of William de Champernoun and Joan de Ferrers) was born in 1271; died before 8 May 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1335 and 1336

Notes:

Sheriff of Devon, 7 Nov 1333 to 7 Oct 1335.

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Meriet. Isabel (daughter of John II de Meriet and Margery) was born in of Merriott, Chard, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nicholas de Bonville. Nicholas (son of Nicholas de Bonville and Hawise de Shute) was born about 1293 in of Shute, Devon, England; died about 1354. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1362

Family/Spouse: Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1340, of Shute, Devon, England
• Alternate death: 14 Feb 1408

Notes:

"[A]mong the most prominent west-country gentry in the late fourteenth century, serving as MP for Devon and Somerset on ten and seven occasions respectively, and receiving a large number of local offices and commissions. He was a liveried retainer of the leading regional magnate, Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon, a close political and family bond that was destined to be violently sundered in the mid-fifteenth century." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on his namesake grandson]

According to the History of Parliament: MP for Somerset, 1366; Devon, 1371, 1376, 1378, 1379, Nov 1380, 1381, May 1382, Oct 1382; Somerset Oct 1383, Apr 1384; Devon Apr 1384; Somerset Nov 1384, 1386, Feb 1388, 1393, 1395; Devon Jan 1397, Sep 1397; Somerset 1399; Devon 1402. He was also elected for Devon in Oct 1377 but was on active service overseas, so his seat was taken by Thomas Pomeroy. Not counting this last, this comes to twelve times for Devon and nine times for Somerset.

Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1 Nov 1381 - 24 Nov 1382; of Devon, 15 Nov 1389 - 7 Nov 1390.

"The Bonvilles, of French origin, established themselves in Devon shortly after the Conquest and by the end of the 14th century their wealth and standing in the county had become second only to that of the Courtenays. The antagonism between the heads of the respective families in the mid 15th century, which expressed itself on the battlefields of the Wars of the Roses and ended in the extinction of the main Bonville line, was exacerbated if not caused by jealousy of the material prosperity of the Bonvilles, for which Sir William himself was largely responsible. At his death in 1408 he was holding some 40 manors, and extensive lands and rents, in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, providing his grandson and heir with an income sufficient to justify his elevation to the House of Lords. Such material assets led Sir William into wide fields of public service and military enterprise. In 1369 he served under the duke of Lancaster at Caux and later at Boulogne, and in October 1377 he was again absent overseas and unable to take his seat in Parliament. His military career, however, was only an interlude in a remarkably active political life: beginning in 1366, Bonville sat, either for Devon or Somerset, in 20 out of the 33 Parliaments convened in the next 36 years. His position in the West Country, if not already evident from this near monopoly, may be gauged by the frequency of his appointments to royal commissions, some of which were of major importance." [History of Parliament]

William married Margaret d'Aumarle before 1365. Margaret (daughter of William d'Aumarle and Agnes) was born about 1347 in of Woodbury, St. Thomas, Devon, England; died on 25 May 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Alice before 6 Jun 1402. Alice died on 27 Mar 1426; was buried in Newenham Abbey, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1413

Elizabeth married John Mautravers before 1367. John (son of John Mautravers and Elizabeth Cifrewast) was born on 11 Nov 1337 in Hooke, Dorset, England; died on 15 Jun 1386; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Humphrey Stafford between Jun 1386 and Jan 1388. Humphrey (son of John de Stafford and Margaret de Stafford) was born after 1341 in of Southwick in North Bradley, Wiltshire, England; died on 31 Oct 1413; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William Bonville before 1365. William (son of Nicholas de Bonville and Joan de Champernon) was born about 1332 in of Shute, Devon, England; died on 11 Feb 1408; was buried in Newenham Abbey, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Carew before 1395. Thomas (son of Leonard de Carew and Elizabeth Arundel) was born about 1368 in of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 25 Jan 1431. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Fitz Roger before 18 Oct 1377. Elizabeth (daughter of John Fitz Roger and Alice) was born on 15 Aug 1370 in of Chewton, Somerset, England; died on 15 Apr 1414. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1378 and 1380
• Alternate birth: Abt 1380
• Alternate death: 1422

Elizabeth married Humphrey Stafford before Oct 1397. Humphrey (son of Humphrey Stafford and Alice Grenville) was born about 1379 in of Hooke, Dorset, England; died on 27 May 1442; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Courtenay. Joan (daughter of Hugh Courtenay and Philippe l'Arcedekne) died before 3 Aug 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Champernoun. Richard (son of Richard Champernoun and Katherine Daubeney) was born in of Modbury, Devon, England; died on 20 Jan 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1392
• Alternate birth: 12 Aug 1392, Shute, Devon, England
• Alternate birth: 31 Aug 1392, Shute, Devon, England
• Alternate birth: 13 Aug 1393
• Alternate birth: 30 Aug 1393
• Alternate death: 19 Feb 1461

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Bonville was knighted before 1417 during the campaigns in France of King Henry V. He was Knight of the shire for Somerset in 1421, and for Devon in 1422, 1425 and 1427. In 1423 he was appointed by the king as Sheriff of Devon. He was Seneschal of Aquitaine at various times from 1442 to 1453, and Governor of Exeter Castle from 1453–61. In 1443 Bonville was retained to serve King Henry VI for a one-year term and in 1449 was retained to serve the King at sea. He was summoned to Parliament from 10 March 1449 to 30 July 1460 by writs directed, for the most part, Willelmo Bonville domino Bonville et de Chuton ("To William Bonville, lord of Bonville and Chewton"), by which he is held to have become Baron Bonville. On 8 February 1461 he was nominated to the Order of the Garter.

In 1441 riots resulted from a dispute over the Duchy of Cornwall between Bonville and Thomas Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon, and on 14 December 1455 the two sides fought the Battle of Clyst Heath near Exeter, which resulted in the defeat of Bonville, the sacking of Shute and injury to a number of persons.

Bonville was to all outward appearances loyal to King Henry VI during the Wars of the Roses until he joined the Yorkist side at the Battle of Northampton in July 1460. Both his son, William Bonville, and his grandson, William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, were slain at the Battle of Wakefield on 31 December 1460.

Less than two months later in 1460 the Yorkists suffered another defeat at the Second Battle of St Albans, where Lord Bonville and another Yorkist, Sir Thomas Kyriel, were taken prisoner by the victorious Lancastrians. The two men had kept guard over King Henry VI during the battle to see that he came to no harm. The King had been held in captivity by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and transported in the train of the latter's army, but had been abandoned on the battlefield. In return for their gallantry the King promised the two men immunity. However Queen Margaret, who was present at the battle, remembered that Lord Bonville had been one of the men who had held King Henry in custody after the Battle of Northampton in July 1460, and wanted revenge. Disregarding the King's promise of immunity, she gave orders for the beheading of Lord Bonville and Sir Thomas Kyriel the next day, 18 February 1461. It is alleged that she put the men on trial and appointed as presiding judge her seven-year-old son, Prince Edward. "Fair son", Margaret is said to have inquired, "what death shall these knights die?" The young prince replied that they were to have their heads cut off, an act which was swiftly carried out, despite the King's pleas for mercy.

Bonville was not attainted, as within three weeks of his death the Yorkist King Edward IV came to the throne. Bonville's widow, Elizabeth, was assigned a substantial dower in recognition of his services to the Yorkist cause.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

While his extensive and complex inheritances led to some violent disputes with neighbours during these years, these were on nothing like the scale of disorder that was to characterize Bonville's notorious conflict with the Courtenays during the 1440s and 1450s.

This power struggle was triggered by the appointment of Bonville in 1437 as royal steward in Cornwall for life. This was seen by the young Thomas Courtenay, thirteenth earl of Devon, recently come of age and in possession of a severely reduced inheritance, as a serious challenge to his own regional authority. The bitterness of the strife that grew from this was symptomatic of a change in the local balance of power and wealth that had over a generation tilted against the Courtenay earls (the traditional leaders of west-country society) in favour of a small group of powerful gentry among whom Bonville was pre-eminent.

Violence reached an alarming level during the summers of 1439 and 1440, and the situation was worsened by a serious blunder on the part of the government--the appointment of the earl to the stewardship of the duchy of Cornwall, a post so similar to that held by Bonville as to be hardly distinguishable from it. Urgent attempts at even-handedness and arbitration failed, and the dispute was only temporarily resolved by the appointment of Bonville as seneschal of Gascony in December 1442, thereby removing him temporarily from the scene (he sailed from Plymouth in March 1443 but was back in Devon by April 1445). Even though the government, coming increasingly under the influence of the duke of Suffolk, was careful not to antagonize the earl of Devon, the latter was clearly seen to be the principal culprit. Bonville's connection with Suffolk grew stronger. He was a member of Suffolk's entourage at Margaret of Anjou's betrothal ceremonies at Rouen in May 1444, and married his daughter Elizabeth to one of Suffolk's henchmen, Sir William Tailboys. This development culminated in the parliament of 1449, when Bonville was raised to the peerage as Baron Bonville of Chewton.

Antagonisms hardened after the fall of Suffolk in 1450. The earl of Devon attached himself to the duke of York, and felt confident enough in the summer of 1451 to risk an encounter in the field with Bonville (and his ally, James Butler, earl of Wiltshire). Despite much plunder and violence, a major showdown was avoided when York's unexpected arrival in the west country persuaded the earl of Devon to lift the siege of Taunton Castle, which Bonville had made his headquarters. Although temporarily imprisoned (as were Devon and the other principal malcontents), Bonville was soon able to exploit the dramatically changed political situation that followed the humiliating submission of York and Devon to the king at Dartford on 3 March 1452.

Between 1452 and 1455 Bonville became the dominant force in west-country politics [...] and the king personally reinforced his position by staying at Bonville's house at Shute on his progress through the west country in the summer of 1452. Bonville was confirmed as steward of the duchy of Cornwall in 1452 (the post that had triggered the violence in 1439), and appointed constable of Exeter Castle in 1453, both posts to be held for life. [...]

These partisan appointments of Bonville to positions within the earl of Devon's traditional zone of influence forced the earl to take increasingly desperate measures [...] [T]he enmities that had grown over more than twenty years proved irresolvable. The death in 1458 of Bonville's old adversary afforded him little comfort. The new earl of Devon [...] quickly gained favour with Queen Margaret, and this presented enormous risks for Bonville and his family.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Kirkby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Margaret Grey after 12 Dec 1414. Margaret (daughter of Reynold Grey and Margaret de Ros) was born about 1399; died after May 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Courtenay before 9 Oct 1427. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh Courtenay and Anne Talbot) died on 28 Oct 1471; was buried in Porlock, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Edmund Cheyne before 1424. Edmund (son of William Cheyne and Cecily Strecche) was born on 4 Dec 1401 in of Avon in Bremhill, Wiltshire, England; died on 30 May 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Walter Tailboys before 1432. Walter (son of Walter Tailboys and Margaret) was born in of Goltho, Lincolnshire, England; died on 13 Apr 1444. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Carminow. Joan (daughter of Thomas Carminow and Joan Hill) died before 12 Apr 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Nov 1419

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Barnstaple, Devon.

Family/Spouse: Alice Bois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Little Modbury, Devon, England

Notes:

Also called John Bountle.

John married Alice Dennis before 1478. Alice (daughter of William Denys and Joan St. Aubyn) was born about 1451; died after 1500. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Tailboys. William (son of Walter Tailboys and (Unknown first wife of Walter Tailboys)) was born about 1415; died on 26 May 1464 in Sandhills, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England; was buried in Grey Friars Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Executed immediately following the Yorkist loss at the battle of Wakefield.

William married Elizabeth Harington about 1442. Elizabeth died before 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Catherine Neville in 1458. Catherine (daughter of Richard Neville and Alice Montagu) was born about 1442; died between 22 Nov 1503 and 25 Mar 1504; was buried in Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Willoughby before 4 Mar 1445. John (son of John Willoughby and Jane Welby) was born about 1422 in of Kirton-in-Holand, Lincolnshire, England; died between Dec 1475 and Aug 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]