William Cole (abt. 1220)

Born about 1220 in Hittisleigh, Devon, England

Ancestors

Husband of Unknown Cole — married 1252 in Hittisleigh,,Devon,England

Descendants

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Earlier Coles and William

"William Cole and Ysabella his wife are named in Assize Roll of the County of Cornwall, in the third year of King John (anno domini 1201). In the fourteenth year of King John (1212) Roger Cole granted to Edith, late wife of Ralph Burdeville, a capital messuage and lands in Hoke , in the county of Devon, to be held of him for the term of her life, with remainder to himself and his heirs ; and in 1219 mention is made of Roger Cole in a Fine roll relating to a third part of one knight's fee in Hardwinesleigh, in the same county.

"'Richard Cole, of the County of Devon, says Segar, 'lived in the tyme of Henry III [who reigned from 1216 to 1272], as appears by the Charter (to the Monastery of Bromere) of Amice Redvers, Countess of Devon.' But it is not known what relationship he, or the above-named persons, bore to 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 Chulmleigh, and also held, in 27 Henry III, Hantesford, in that parish."^[1]

William's home parish of Hittisleigh is near Devon's border with Cornwall, but not near either coast.

Chulmleigh, the home parish of William's son Roger, is in the same general area, north of Hittisleigh.

Sources

1. ↑ James Edwin-Cole, Genealogy of the Family of Cole, in Devon (1867), pp. 2-3.

• Edwin-Cole, James. The Genealogy of the Family of Cole, of the County of Devon (John Russell Smith, London, 1867) Page 2