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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Champernowne (was Re: BODRUGAN/BODRUGANHAM/BEWPELL/FITZWARIN/COLES of Devon)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:35:36 -0500
"Don Mcarthur" < >:
> Alan B. Wilson, wrote
>
> > Weis, Ancestral Roots, 124A:33, lists "Henry de Chambernon
> > (or Champernon), b. ca. 1274, d. 1330, of Ilfracombe, Devon, and
> > Tywardreath, Cornwall; m. Joan, dau. Sir Henry Bodrugan.
> > (Champernowne Family, cit., pp. 12-21; Vivian, Visit. of Devon,
> > p. 160)."
>
> Does this connect to Alexander Champenoun, of Devon, d 1441, husband of
> Joan Ferrars.
This Henry Champernowne of Ilfracombe represented the senior line of the
family, being son of William, son of an earlier Henry, son of Oliver,
son of Henry, son of Jordan, who married Mabel of Gloucester and is the
earliest proven ancestor of the family. (She was daughter of Robert,
younger son of Earl Robert of Gloucester, and hence great-granddaughter
of Henry I. This corrects Ancestral Roots, which shows her as daughter
of Earl Robert. It also creates a bit of a chronological problem,
suggesting that Henry may not have been her son, but I don't want to get
too far afield.)
Alexander descended from Henry's uncle Richard Champernowne of Modbury.
He was son of Richard, son of Thomas, son of Richard, son of Richard
(son of Henry, son of Oliver . . .).
Now, for the moment of truth. Why is Alexander relevant to you? I ask
because there is a widespread error which erroneously calls Joan, wife
of 1) James Chudlegh and 2) John Courteney, the daughter of Alexander,
when there is near-contemporary evidence that she was instead his
sister.
ta
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