Sir
John
(John II)
Cole
Born about in Devon, England
Ancestors 
Son of John Cole I
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Anne (Bodrugan) Cole
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
William Cole and Thomasine Cole
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Father or Grandfather?
It is generally assumed that John Cole, who was knighted in 1380, was the son of John Cole who was a man-at-arms (not yet knighted) in 1324. It seems more logical to assume that the younger John was actually the grandson, and not the son, of the elder John Cole.
Biography
The 1867 Cole genealogy states that "Sir John Cole, knight, of Nythway, in the parish of Brixham, ... on 25th July, 4 Richard II (1380) was 'knighted (before the castle of Ardres) in Fraunce, by the Earl of Buckingham Thomas of Woodstock, Lord Deputy there for the King.'"
The 1867 Cole genealogy follows Sir William Segar's 1630 pedigree of the Cole family in stating that Sir John Cole married "Anne, daughter and heiress to Sir Nicholas Bodrugan, knt., by whom he had issue, WILLIAM Cole ..., who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Beaupell, knt."[1]
However, the father of the wife of Sir John Cole is given as William Bodringham in the 1573 visitation pedigree of the Cole family, reproduced in Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall, p. 90. This can only be William, the bastard son of Otto Bodrugan, and of course this William couldn't inherit the family estates. The extended Cole pedigree in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldrica, starting on page 234 also falsely shows Anne, wife of Sir John Cole, to be the daughter and heir of the imaginary Nicholas Bodrugan. (This source also errs in showing Otto and his elder brother William Bodrugan to be the sons, rather than the brothers, of eldest brother Henry Bodrugan. For this point, see the biography of William Bodrugan in the History of Parliament.
Heraldry
"Segar remarks: 'Richard, Earle of Cornwall, King of the Romanes, created Earle of the Isle of Wight, bare a bordure of Cornwall about his coate. And it's conceived he gave the same bordure to this or one of the Auncestors of this family of Cole, as an augmentation for services in the Warres.'" [2]
Sources
- ↑ James Edwin-Cole, Genealogy of the Family of Cole, in Devon (1867), p. 4.
- ↑ James Edwin-Cole, Genealogy of the Family of Cole, in Devon (1867), pp. 2-3.
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