General Notes

Father: Henry de Chambernon , Sir b: ABT. 1225 in Ilfracombe,Devonshire, E
ngland
Mother: Dionisia English b: ABT. 1230 in Stockleigh English,Devonshire, En
gland
Marriage 1 Joan de Ferrers b: ABT. 1256 in Bere Ferrers, Tavistock,Devonsh
ire, England
Children
Henry de Chambernon , Sir b: ABT. 1274 in Tywardreath, Cornwall,England
Margaret Chambernon b: ABT. 1280 in Ilfrancombe, Devonshire, England
Sources:
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition,byFreder
ick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 124a-32
Sir WILLIAM de CHAMPERNOUN. As the son of Henry, see de Banco Plea Rolls,
Trinity 17 Edw. 3, m. 42. Died before 21 Feb 1305 seized of Tywardraith an
d
Trevelowen, co. Cornwall and Ilfracombe, Colrigg, and the hamlets of Hev
ed and
Clist, Devonshire (CIPM, 4: no. 312). On 16 Feb 1269/70, William de
Chaumbernun was claimant to 1 messauge, 20 acres in Cowick, in St. Thomas
(Devon Feet of Fines, no. 714). In July 1279, as a knight, he witnessed an
oath to settle a dispute between the abbot and convent of Glastonbury a
nd the
prior and convent of Launceston (The Cartulary of Launceston Priory, p. 16
7).
On 15 May 1287 he had letters going overseas (Cal. Patent Rolls 1281-92, p
.
269). In 1294, as a knight, he was summoned to proceed to Wales and suppre
ss a
rising under a Welsh chieftain named Madog (RTDA, 71: 289-291). Knig
ht of the
Shire of Cornwall, Nov 1295 (Parliaments, p. 4; summoned to serve again
st the
Scots 1296 and 1301 (Knights of Edward I, 1: 192); knight of the Shire of
Devon, May 1298 (Parliaments, p. 8).
He was married to Joan. In March 1308/9, as Dame Joan de Champernoun,
relict of Sir William, she presented to the church of Jacobstowe, co. Corn
wall,
doing so again in Nov 1309 when she presented John de Campo Arnulphi, a
subdeacon and presumably her son, as the new rector (Stapledon, p. 224)
Children: