Bartholemew Grenville (abt. 1240 - bef. 1325)

Born about 1240 in Cornwall, England

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Biography

Bartholomew de Grenvile was quite old when he succeeded his childless brother Richard as the master of Bideham and Kilkhampton in 1310. In 1318 he presented two priests to the parish at Bideford. In 1320 he granted the Rectory at Kilhampton to his younger son Richard, together with the estate of Hewode. “In 1325 he died, having been certified the previous year to be of great and almost decrepit age. He had married Amy, the daughter of Sir Vyell Vyvyan, Knight of Treviddren, in Cornwall (by his wife Margaret, daughter of Christopher, Earl of Kildare).” ^[1] Her name is given in the 1620 Visitation of Cornwall as Joanna, daughter of Sir Viell Vivion.

In 1317 Bartholomew arranged the succession of his property: “A fine was also levied at Westminster, 10th Edward II [1317], between the said Bartholomew and Amy his wife, Plaintiffs, and Margery, late wife of John de Dynham, Defendant, of the Manor of Kilkhampton, to the use of the said Bartholomew and Amy his wife, for life… remainder to Henry, son of the said Bartholomew, and to the heirs of his body.” ^[2]

In 1325 Bartholomew’s widow Amy sold three acres of land that had been given to her by her husband. “This deed is dated at ‘Bydeford, Tuesday after St. Ambrose’s Day,’ 1325, to which is a fair seal appendant of the arms of Granville impaling the arms of Vyvyan, viz., six mullets, 3, 2, 1, circumscribed. These arms were cut in stone over an old chimney-piece in the village of Morwenstow, having possibly been removed at some time or other from Kilkhampton Church.” ^[3]

There seems to be some confusion here, because the stated arms (six mullets, 3, 2, 1) are the arms of Bonville, not Vivian, which are (according to Vivian’s Visitations of Cornwall, and presumably he should know his own family’s arms) argent, on the waves of the sea azure, a lion rampant gules. Bartholomew’s great-grandson William married Philippa Bonville, and the Grenville arms impaling Bonville still appear in a stained glass window in Petrocstow Church in Devon. “According to Ped. fin. Cornw., 10 Edw. II, No. 1, Sir Bartholomew left two sons and two daughters, Isabel and Joanna. The second son, Richard, took Holy Orders.” ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Roger Granville, The History of the Granville Family (1895), p. 48.
2. ↑ Roger Granville, The History of the Granville Family (1895), pp. 49-50.
3. ↑ Roger Granville, The History of the Granville Family (1895), p. 50.
4. ↑ Roger Granville, The History of the Granville Family (1895), p. 50.

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile De Grenville-12 created through the import of SRW 7th July 2011.ged on Jul 7, 2011 by Stephen Wilkinson.

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