Collacombe is an historic manor in the parish of Lamerton, Devon, England. The manor house survives as a grade I listed building, known as Collacombe Barton or Collacombe Manor (House).
Descent d'Aumale 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
Courtenay 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.
de Esse 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
Trenchard
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 (died 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
Tremayne
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.
Thomas Tremayne 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 (died 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) 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 (died 1482) Thomas Tremayne (died 1482), eldest son of Nicholas Tremayne (born 1368), married Elizabeth Carew, a daughter of "Thomas Carew",Vivian, p. 730 apparently Thomas Carew (died 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) John Tremayne (1452–1504), eldest son of Thomas Tremayne (died 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
Thomas Tremayne (1496–1562/3)
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 (died 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 By Phillipa Grenville he had 16 children,Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 57, biography of Tremayne, Edmund, by Emma Louisa Radford 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 (died 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 (died 1571/2) Roger Tremayne (died 1571/2), eldest son and heir, who married Anne Coffin, a daughter of Richard Coffin (died 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 (died 1553), and his 4 daughters were unable to inherit due to the tail male settlement.
Edmund Tremayne (died 1582) Edmund Tremayne (died 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 (died 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 (died 1578) (Vivian, pp. 16, 20, pedigree of ArscottLauncells, per Vivian, p. 731, pedigree of Tremayne the son and heir of Richard Arscott (died 1578), the 4th son of John Arscott (died 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 (1582–1582) 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 (died 1601).Vivian, p. 731
Degory Tremayne (died 1601)
Degory Tremayne (died 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 (died 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
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.”
Later Tremaynes