Collacombe

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists COLECOME as part of the triple-manor of Ottery-Collacombe-Willestrew, the second listed of the 17 Devonshire holdings of Robert d'AumaleThorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, Chapter 28:2 one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror. He held it in demesne.Domesday Book: "Robert holds ... himself" The triple group had been held before the Norman Conquest of 1066 by three Saxon thanes, including Oslac and Burgred,Thyorn & Thorn, Part 2 (Notes), 28:2 as four manors.Domesday Book It was administered within Lifton hundred after 1066.Thyorn & Thorn, Part 2 (Notes), 28:2

The Devonshire lands of Robert d'Aumale later formed part of the very large feudal barony of Plympton,Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, part 2, Chapter 28 whose later barons were the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon. The Book of Fees (1302) lists Collecumb and Willestre as held from the honour of Plympton, the third part of the triple-manor, Ottery, having dropped out of the grouping since being given to Tavistock Abbey by one of the predecessors of Ralph d'Aumale.

In 1242 it was held by Raph de Esse.Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.342, regnal date 27 Henry III

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In 1295 it was held by Sir Michael Trenchard,Pole, p.342, regnal date 24 Edward I and in 1301 by Walter Trenchard.Pole, p.342, regnal date 30 Edward I William I Trenchard held it in 1314Pole, p.342, regnal date 8 Edward II and William II Trenchard held it in 1345.Pole, p.342, regnal date 19 Edward III The last in the male line of Trenchard left a daughter and heiress, Isabella Trenchard (d.1408), who married Thomas Tremayne of Carwythenack, in the parish of Constantine, Cornwall, and the manor of Collacombe passed to her descendants from this marriage. She survived her husband and remarried to Sir John Damerell, who by apparent coincidence was of the same family as the Domesday Book holder Robert d'Aumale (alias d'Amarell, Damarell,Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.511 etc., Latinised to de Albemarle,As the name appears in the Domesday Book de Albamara,Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.191 etc.). As Sir John Damerell died without progeny he bequeathed to his wife and her progeny by her first husband Thomas Tremayne, the manors of North Huish, Sydenham Dammarel and Whitchurch.Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.3, p.442, note

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The Tremayne (originally de Tremayne) family originated at the manor of Tremayne in the parish of St Martin in Meneage, Cornwall, about 8 miles south-west of Penryn,Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.2, London, 1793, Vol.3, p.442, note: "Manor of Tremayne near Penryn", not to be confused with Tremaine near Launceston from which they took their surname.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

Thomas Tremayne of Carwythenack, in the parish of Constantine, Cornwall, who married the heiress Isabella of Collacombe, was the second son of Richard de Tremayne (d.1354) by his wife Mary Erney, a daughter of Sir Thomas Erney of Cornwall. Thomas's elder brother, who inherited the paternal estate of Tremayne, was John de Tremayne, a Member of Parliament for Cornwall in 1366 and 1369, who died without male progeny leaving two daughters and co-heiresses.Vivian, p.730 Thomas's younger son was Rev. Thomas Tremayne, Rector of Aveton Giffard and a Canon of Exeter Cathedral in Devon.Polwhele

Nicholas Tremayne (born 1368), eldest son of Thomas Tremayne and Isabella Trenchard, married as his first wife Joan Dodscombe, daughter and heiress of Sir John Dodscombe.Vivian, p.730

Thomas Tremayne (d.1482), eldest son of Nicholas Tremayne (born 1368), married Elizabeth Carew, a daughter of "Thomas Carew",Vivian, p.730 apparently Thomas Carew (d.1446) of Mohuns OtteryVivian, p.134, pedigree of Carew in Devon. In 1448 Edmund Lacey, Bishop of Exeter, granted the couple a licence to celebrate divine service "within their mansion of Collacombe",Polwhele, p.442 effectively to maintain a private chapel. The arms of Carew (Or, three lions passant in pale sable) are visible on the 1588 Tremayne monument in Lamerton Church.

John Tremayne (1452-1504), eldest son of Thomas Tremayne (d.1482), was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1486 and 1487.Vivian, p.730, regnal dates 2 & 3 Henry VII He married Jane Warre, a daughter of Sir Francis Warre. By his deed of 1493 he settled his lands in Devon in tail male on his heirs male forever.Vivian, p.730

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Thomas Tremayne (1496-1562/3) of Collacombe, one of Prince's Worthies of Devon.Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, Biography of Tremain, Thomas, Esquire (1496-1562/3), pp.739-742 He was the eldest son of John Tremayne (1452-1504), married Phillipa Grenville (d.1571), eldest daughter of Sir Roger Grenville (1477–1523) of Stowe, Kilkhampton in CornwallVivian, p.730 and lord of the manor of Bideford in Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1510–11, 1517–18, 1522,Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, p.303 ancestor of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701). Her brothers included Digory Grenville of Penheale,Byrne, Vol.4, p.11 Cornwall and John Grenville (c.1506-c.1562), three times MP for Exeter, in 1545, 1554 and 1558.Hawkyard, A.D.K., Biography of John Grenville (c. 1506 – c. 1562) published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1509–1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/grenville-john-1506-62-or-later] By Phillipa Grenville he had 16 children,Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 57, biography of Tremayne, Edmund, by Emma Louisa Radford [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tremayne,_Edmund_(DNB00)] including 8 sons, the eldest surviving three of which succeeded successively to Collacombe. Edmund Tremayne, the second son, was Chief Secretary for Ireland. A large standing monument erected in 1588 by his 3rd surviving son Degory Tremayne (d.1601) of Collacombe, survives in Lamerton Church which includes "lively"Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.530 statues of five of his brothers, with lengthy biographical inscriptions in verse and a profuse display of the family's heraldry including the arms of Grenville and Trenchard.

Roger Tremayne (d.1571/2), eldest son and heir, who married Anne Coffin, a daughter of Richard Coffin (d.1555)Vivian, p.209, pedigree of Coffin of PortledgeVivian, p.730 in the parish of Alwington in Devon. He was predeceased by his only son John Tremayne (d.1553), and his 4 daughters were unable to inherit due to the tail male settlement.

Edmund Tremayne (d.1582), next younger brother, of Collaton, a clerk to the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, who rebuilt the manor house at Collacombe, which survives today.Pevsner, p.277 Evidence of his work includes the surviving large heraldic plaster overmantel to the fireplace in the great hall,Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.422 with date "1574".Listed building text He married Ulalia St Leger, a daughter of Sir John St Leger (d.1596) of Annery, Monkleigh in Devon. She survived him and in 1583 remarried to Tristram Arscott (1544–1621) of Launcells,Tristram Arscott was aged 34 at death of his father Richard Arscott (d.1578) (Vivian, pp. 16, 20, pedigree of ArscottLauncells, per Vivian, p.731, pedigree of Tremayne the son and heir of Richard Arscott (d.1578), the 4th son of John Arscott (d.1541) of ArscottVivian, p.16 in the parish of Holsworthy, Devon. Her father sold the manor of Annery to Tristram Arscott.

By Ulalia he had one surviving son, Francis Tremayne (April 1582-November 1582), who died an infant, having survived his father only a few weeks.

Francis Tremayne (April 1582-November 1582), only surviving son, who died an infant, having survived his father only a few weeks. His heir under the entail was his uncle Degory Tremayne (d.1601).Vivian, p.731

File:TremayneMonument LamertonChurch Devon.jpg Church, Devon, erected in 1588 by Degorie Tremayne in memory of six of his deceased brothers, with statues of five, one having died an infant. Only his brother John Tremayne was then still living, who is therefore not featured on the monument]]

Degory Tremayne (d.1601) of Collacombe, uncle, 3rd surviving son of Thomas Tremayne (1496-1562/3). He succeeded to Collacombe in November 1582. In 1588, when only one of his other brothers was still living, he erected the large monument in Lamerton Church to his 5 brothers, as the inscription relates "Through duty mov’d he of his care and cost, Caus’d to be fram'd this monument emboss'd". He married Elizabeth Vasey, a daughter of Thomas Vasey of Tamerton and widow of Richard Browning.Vivian, p.731 Secondly he married Katherine Courtenay, a daughter of Sir Peter Courtenay (d.1552) of Ugbrooke, in the parish of Chudleigh, Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1549,Vivian, p.247, pedigree of Courtenay whose monument survives in Chudleigh Church.Pevsner, p.263 He was the 2nd son of Sir William Courtenay (1477–1535) "The Great", of Powderham,Vivian, p.246 MP for Devon 1529, Sheriff of Devon 1522, 1525-6, 1533-4 and Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII. The arms of Tremayne impaling Courtenay appear at the top of the monument in Lamerton Church. The first part of the inscription on the monument erected by Degory is as follows:Transcript of the inscriptions per: Prince, p.742 and per Gilbert, Charles Sandoe, An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, Volume 2, Part 1, p.295 [https://books.google.com/books?id=NvlRAQAAMAAJ&dq=twins+in+form+and+fancy+one+lamerton&pg=PA295]

This here erected massy type contains,

The history of latter-age Tremains;

Who numb'ring fair descents of ancestry,

Are drawn from lines of long antiquity.

Thomas their sire match'd one of Grenvil's blood,

Philip her name by birth a gentile good;

From out her womb unto the world's full view,

Eight sons and just so many daughters grew.

Roger first born stepp'd into father's stead;

Edmund by course succeeded father dead.

Next Edmund fell the land to Degory,

Who only wrought his wasted name supply.

Through duty mov’d he of his care and cost,

Caus’d to be fram'd this monument emboss'd,

As witness of his love to parents gone,

Not that his praise should be engraved thereon.

Richard and John, the fourth and fifth so hight,

Both safe one timely birth brought forth to light;

The sixth and seventh like after twins in all,

Were Nicholas and Andrew, stout and tall.

Robert the least, and eke by kind the last,

Dy'd e're the term of infancy was past.

Of eight male two near of one age and stature

- Yet live; the rest pay’d tribute unto nature.”

The parents of th’ above recited race, -

Devoy'd of sense lie here inclos'd together,

Who Colacombe held their abiding place,

Till death's sad harbinger convey'd them hither.

Long faithful pairs they liv'd in wedlock-state,

And both enjoy'd many a blissful year,

E’re marriage knot dissolved was by fate,

Which wife bereaved of her husband dear.

The widow left, made choice to wed no more,

But spent in prayer the remnant of her days;

And shortly went the path he went before,

The path to heav'n whereof Christ keeps the keys.

Their life and death did truly testify,

Both in God's fear did live, and favour die.”

In 1653 Edmund Tremayne (1587-1667) of Collacombe, Digory's grandson, sold the family's ancient seat of Carwythenack to Anthony Chepman of Constantine, for £850.http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=updike&id=I13574 {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=June 2022}} The Tremayne family abandoned Collacombe in about 1700Pevsner, p.277 and moved their seat to Sydenham in the parish of Marystow in Devon, which Edmund Tremayne (1649-1698) (4th in descent from Degory Tremayne)Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.732, pedigree of Tremayne had inherited on his marriage to Arabella Wise, only daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Wise (1632-1675) of Sydenham, thrice MP for Okehampton.Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.732, pedigree of Tremayne Arthur III Tremayne (1735-1800) (son of Arthur II Tremayne (1700/1-1796), Sheriff of Devon in 1739, grandson of Edmund Tremayne (1649-1698)Vivian, p.732), the last in the senior male line and great-grandson of Arabella Wise, who died unmarried at Sydenham, finally sold Collacombe to Sir William Pratt Call, 2nd Baronet (1781–1851),Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.404 and bequeathed Sydenham to his very distant cousin Rev. Henry Hawkins Tremayne (1741–1829) of Heligan, Cornwall.Vivian, p.732

Richard Eales, of Easton House,Lysons, Magna Britannia; Pevsner, p.333 Dawlish, lord of the manor of Dawlish (which he purchased),[https://archive.org/details/devonshirecornwa00britrich Britton, John, et alia, Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated , 1832] purchased the estate of Collacombe from Arthur Tremayne (1735-1800), the last in the senior male line, and also purchased from him in 1792, in partnership with Charles Luxmoore, the manor of North Huish. He acquired Luxmoore's share and sold the whole to Richard King of Fowelscombe, who built a house on the estate. Eales purchased various other property in Devon, including Huish from the Duke of Roxburgh, which in about 1812 he sold on to Lord Clinton,Lysons, Magna Britannia who renamed it Heanton Satchville and made it his seat. Eales sold Collacombe to Sir William Pratt Call, 2nd Baronet (1781–1851).[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol6/pp306-326 Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire]

Collacombe was purchased from Richard Eales by the banker Sir William Pratt Call, 2nd Baronet (1781–1851),Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.404 of Whiteford House, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1807-8. It was let as a farmhouse from 1810, during which time parts were demolished.Pevsner, p.277 In 1887 it was the property of his grandson, Sir William George Montagu Call, 4th Baronet (1849–1903) of Whitford House, Launceston.Worthy, Charles, Devonshire parishes; or, The antiquities, heraldry and family history of twenty-four parishes in the archdeaconry of Totnes, 1887, p.211 [https://archive.org/stream/devonshireparish01wort/devonshireparish01wort_djvu.txt] In 1887 the Tremayne family still owned the advowson of Lamerton Church.Worthy, p.211

In the 1950s to after 1962 Collacombe was the home of Major Archibald Jack,Country Life Magazine, 1962 who in the 1950s restored the building.Pevsner, p.277

In 1993 it was the residence of Peter Goide (born 1937), a director of Provend Operating Ltd{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/01383348/officers|title=PROVEND OPERATING LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK}} and of Collacombe Farm Ltd.http://business-portal.co.uk/eng/collacombe-farm-ltd-550220#.WVbfglGQwqc {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}

• Country Life Magazine, June 20, 1914, article on Collacombe Barton [http://www.rostronandedwards.com/Shop/Country_Life_Magazine/2399][https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/collacombe-manor-lamerton-devon-1962-541476317]
• Country Life Magazine, 1962, article on Collacombe, North Devon Record Office, B513/91 [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7f385064-1179-4eb6-a9fe-5ae6b3c8c0a6]
• Collacombe Manor, Lamerton: An Exceptional Residential and Farming Property, 10 pages, by auctioneers Knight, Frank & Rutley, 1962
• Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, Biography of Tremain, Thomas, Esquire (1496-1562/3), pp. 739–742
• [[John Burke (genealogist)|

Burke's]] Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p. 2275, pedigree of Tremayne of Heligan and Sydenham

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