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Pomery, Richard (1441 - 1496)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1441
Death Date: 1496-08-24

Parents

Titles

  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1487-11-24
    Vacated: 1496-08-24

General Lands Note

Livery of lands 27 March 1487

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1472
Sheriff, Devon 1473 -11 -5 1474 -11 -7
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1484
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1490
Sheriff, Devon 1492 -11 -26 1493 -11 -7
JP, Devon 1494 1496

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Cornwall: Tregony
    Patrimony
  • Devon: Berry Pomeroy Manor, Bridgetown Pomeroy Manor, Brixham Manor (moiety), Huberton Manor (moiety), Sandridge, Stockleigh Pomery Manor
    Patrimony

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall (1), Barnstaple, Devon Mr Pomery's Harper

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Pomery's Harper Pomery, Richard (1441 - 1496) Musicians 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Berry Pomeroy Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Brown, Stewart. Berry Pomeroy Castle Devon. London: English Heritage, 1997
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV – Henry VI [1467–77]. London: HMSO, 1900
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III [1476--85]. London: HMSO, 1901
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Powley, Edward B. The House of De La Pomerai. London: UP of Liverpool--Hodder & Stoughton, 1944
  • Shaw, William Arthur. The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. 2 vols. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1906