Sir Symon DE FURNEAUX

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: was a Knight

Notes:

Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - england: executor of and heir by entail, to his father; m. ab 1327 Alice, dau. of Sir Henry de Umfraville of Penarth Point, Co. Glamorgan, Wales, on the Bristol Channel. He was one of the principal land owners of his county, and d. withut surviving male issue. He recd. his numerous inherited estates on the death of his father 1316, acquired Strington; and Lapford in No. Devon, came to him by his wife, 1327-8.... He was returned as Man-at-Arms in 1324, summoned to military service in 1325 & again in 1335; was Commissioner of Array in Somerset in 1325 & 1326, deputized to certify as to those to receive Knighthood; and in 1325 & 1327 was charged with the custody of Bridgewater Castle. He was Knight of the Shire of Somerset, in the Parliament of 2 Edwd. III (1328), summoned to Northampton; and in the Parliament of 18 Edwd. III, (1344), summoned to Westminster; and his arms as recorded were "Gules, a bend betw. six crosses-crosslet, or; which are still preserved on some encaustic tiles in 'Cleve Abbey' - where he and his Father were benefactors - to which, later heraldic authorities add a crest. The ensignia & colors displayed by father & son were practicaly identical. He was witness to important state papers in 1327 and again in 1342. He made provision for five chaplains to clebrate mass daily in 'Kilve Church,' for the souls of himself & his heirs, of his father & gr. father, his wife & her father. His only son William, b. 1328 d. in his lifetime; so the vast Furneaux estates mainly passed to heirs female - a daughter & his sisters.

Symon married Alice DE UMFRAVILLE about 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth DE FURNEAUX was born in 1330.
2. William DE FURNEAUX was born in 1328.

Notes:

Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - England": m. ab. 1270, Matilda (or Maud), dau. of Sir Warine (or Warren) de Ralegh of "nettlecombe'- in Somerset, descended from Winund de Ralegh, temp. of K. John (of the smae Ralegh, or Raleigh, family made famous some two centuries thereafter by Sir Walter Raleigh), by his wife, Johanna - called 'Jone,' dau. of Lord Botiler of 'Walis,' or Wales. He was Lord of Ashington-his principal residence, and Kilve (or Kehoe) in 1294, and then became a Knight; was summoned to do military service against the Welsh in 1295 and against the Scots in 1296-7-8 and 1300. He was Sheriff of Somerset, dorset & devon variously, for terms covering many yrs. during the period 1304-1316, the yr. of his death; and was frequently appointed Justice in Oyer & Terminer, for Somerset, Dorset, Devon & Cornwall, and was Conservator of the Peace in Somerset 1307-10. In 1312 he had custody of Devon & the King's Castle of Exeter; and in 1315 held custody over the Cos. of Somerset & Dorset, and of the castle of Shireborn; and the order of Escheat was in 1317. He was the prominent member of the Furneaux family: 'Gu., a bend betw. six crosses-crosslet et flory or.' Hs wife had arms assigned to her, and her paternal arms (a bend fusily) appear with the figure of a Knight in chain armor, carved on a tombstone at Ashington. His family worshiped at 'Athelney (Isle of) Abbey. Sir Matthew obtained license for a 'Fair' at Pury, which privilege afterward passed to his son Symon; and was one means of enriching the Furneaux family.

Matthew married Matilda DE RALEGH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]