Roger Cole (abt. 1250)

Born about 1250 in Coleton, Devon, England

Ancestors

Husband of Unknown Cole — married 1278 in Coleton,,Devon,England

Descendants

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Biography

"William Cole, of Hutenesleigh (now called Hittisleigh) in the county of Devon, living in the year 1243, whose son and heir Roger Cole, had "his dwelling at Coleton," in Chuinleigh, and also held, in 27 Henry III [1243], Hantesford, in that parish. In 25th of Edward I [1297] he was "returned from the county of Cornwall as holding lands or rents to the amount of £ 20 yearly value and upwards, either in Capite or otherwise, and as such summoned under the general writ to muster at London, on Sunday next after the Octaves of St. John the Baptist (7 July, 1297), to perform Military Service in person with horses and arms, &c., in parts beyond the Seas ;" and also again summoned with his son William to muster at Berwick-on-Tweed, on the nativity of St. John the Baptist, to perform service against the Scots in 1301. He was father of ROGER (of whom immediately), and of the above-named William, who probably perished in this expedition, as there is no further trace of him; and perhaps his early death may account for the omission of his name, in the family pedigree drawn up, in July 1630, by Sir William Segar, Garter, King-at-Arms."^[1]

Arms of Cole: (per the Cole genealogy): Arg., a bull passant Sa., armed Or, with a bordure of the second bezant^e.

Sources

1. ↑ James Edwin-Cole, Genealogy of the Family of Cole, in Devon (1867), pp. 3-4.

• Edwin-Cole, James. The Genealogy of the Family of Cole, of the County of Devon (John Russell Smith, London, 1867) Page 3

• The extended Cole pedigree in Joseph Jackson Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldrica, vol. 2 (1876), starting on page 234.