Joan Bodrugan (abt. 1345)

Ancestors

Wife of Ralph Trenouth — married about 1373 in England

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Biography

Birth year is just a guess.

The old [Genealogy of the Family of Cole, in Devon (1867), p. 4 Cole genealogy, pp. 4-5], says the following about the wife of John Cole as part of a lengthy footnote on the Bodrugan family:

"Sir Otto de B. was in 17 and 19 Ed. II a knight of the shire ; and 20 Ed. II had custody of the island of Lundy with its appendages committed to his charge. In 1324 he went by the king's license on a pilgrimage to the Church of St. James in Spain. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Champernon, knt., and died possessed of B., and of a considerable estate in Cornwall in 6 Ed. III. ; at which date his son and heir Sir Henry de B. was likewise deceased. This last named knight married Isabell, daughter of William Wallesborow of Whalesborough, and had three sons...

"Nicholas, the 3rd son, died in 1362, and had 2 sons, viz, Otho and Nicholas. Otho married Jane, daughter of William Trelausard, and by her had Joane, his heir, who married four husbands : — 1st, Sir John Trevaignon, knt., who died s.p. ; 2ndly, Ralph Trenowith (by whom before marriage she had a son William, who bore the name of Bodrugan, and the arms of his mother ("within a bordure ") ; he possessed himself of all her inheritance, and had issue Sir William B., knt., who died 24 Dec. 20 Henry VI., whose son and heir, Sir Henry B., was attainted of treason 1 Henry VII.) ; 3rdly, Sir John Trevarthian, knt., by whom she had issue, Otho Trevarthian, his son and heir, who died s.p.f and Vidona (heir to her brother) married to — Reskymer, and had Ralph R. ; 4thly, Robert Hull, who survived her."

Sources

• James Edwin-Cole,

[The Genealogy of the Family of Cole, in Devon (1867), p. 4

• J.S. Roskell, History of Parliament

• Sir John Maclean, The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, vol. 1 (1873), p. 551.