Michael Archdeacon, of Combehall in Drewsteignton, Devon was an English politician who was MP for Cornwall in February 1383 and November 1390. He was the son of John Archdeacon, in turn a son of Thomas Archdeacon, and a younger brother of Warin Archdeacon. [1]
Peter Courtenay was Bishop of Exeter (1478-87) and Bishop of Winchester (1487-92), and also had a successful political career during the tumultuous years of the Wars of the Roses.
Drewsteignton is a village, civil parish and former manor within the administrative area of West Devon, England, also lying within the Dartmoor National Park. It is located in the valley of the River Teign, 13 miles (21 km) west of Exeter and 9 miles (14 km) south east of Okehampton. Visitor attractions in the area include the village centre itself, nearby Castle Drogo, and Fingle Bridge. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 1,616.
Richard Fitz Turold was an eleventh-century Anglo-Norman landowner in Cornwall and Devon, mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the 13th century his estates formed part of the Feudal barony of Cardinham, Cornwall, and in 1166 as recorded in the Cartae Baronum his estates had been held as a separate fiefdom from Reginald, Earl of Cornwall.
Lawhitton is a village in the civil parish of Lawhitton Rural, in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated two miles (3 km) southwest of Launceston and half-a-mile west of Cornwall's border with Devon at the River Tamar.
The Archdeacon of Cornwall is a senior cleric in the Church of England Diocese of Truro.
Reverend William Helyar, Doctor of Divinity, of Coker Court, East Coker, in Somerset, was Archdeacon of Barnstaple and a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I.
John Pollard was a 16th-century Archdeacon of Wiltshire, Archdeacon of Cornwall, Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Archdeacon of Totnes.
William Read was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1679 until 1703.
John Fulford was an English archdeacon.
Jasper Swift was the archdeacon of Cornwall and Archdeacon of Totnes.
William Cotton was the Archdeacon of Totnes.
Edward Cotton was the Archdeacon of Totnes from 1622.
George Snell was the Archdeacon of Totnes.
The Ven. Montague Blamire Williamson was an Anglican priest who was the Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1924 until his death.
Robert Lydston Newcombe (1719-1808) of Starcross in the parish of Kenton in Devon, was High Sheriff of Devon in 1779 and 1799.
Warin Archdeacon was an English politician who was MP for Cornwall in 1380 and 1382. He was the son of John Archdeacon, in turn a son of Thomas Archdeacon, and an elder brother of Michael Archdeacon.
John Archdeacon was an English politician who was MP for an unidentified constituency. He was the son of Thomas Archdeacon, and two of his sons were Michael Archdeacon and Warin Archdeacon.
Thomas Archdeacon was an English politician who was MP for an unidentified constituency. He was the father of John Archdeacon, and the grandfather of Michael Archdeacon and Warin Archdeacon.
Baron Arcedekne was a peerage created in 1321 for Thomas Arcedekne, 1st Baron Arcedekne (d.1331) of Ruan Lanihorne Castle in Cornwall, Governor of Tintagel Castle in 1312 and Sheriff of Cornwall 1313–14, who was summoned by writ to Parliament in 1321, whereby he became Baron Arcedekne. His descendants were never again summoned to Parliament in respect of the barony, and GEC Complete Peerage does not list them as holders of that peerage and considers the barony to be abeyant. His descendants were:
The manor of Haccombe was a historic manor in the small parish of Haccombe, near the town of Newton Abbot, Devon, England. It was the seat of important branches of the Courtenay and Carew families.
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