page_title: Bowden, Ashprington
section_title: Pomeroy
hierarchical_section_title: Bowden, Ashprington / Descent / Pomeroy
context_page_description: Bowden is an historic estate in the parish of Ashprington, near Totnes in Devon, England. The present mansion house known as Bowden House is a grade I listed building and, having been modified over many centuries, is composed of various building styles, with an emphasis on English Baroque and Tudor.
context_section_description: The de la Pomeroy family were feudal barons of Berry Pomeroy, seated at Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes, built by Radulfus de Pomerei (Ralph de Pomeroy), from La Pommeraye, Calvados, Normandy, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding Berie in demesne with 57 other manors.
  Henry IX de la Pomeroy (1416–1481), whose second wife was Anna (or Amy) Cammel, daughter of Robert Cammel of Tittleford, Dorset, and widow firstly of Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, Wiltshire and secondly of Thomas Gyll of Loddiswell, Devon. "A succession of records suggest that she brought Bowden to the Pomeroy's, along with 3 generations of chancery suits brought by the Gyll heirs".
  Thomas Pomeroy (died 1493), 3rd son by his father's first wife Alice Raleigh. He was in possession of Bowden after 1487. In 1491 he entered into a bond summarised as follows:
  Thomas Pomerey de Bowden, Esq., to William, Prior of Tottenesse and Convent. In £100. To abide the arbitration of Richard Lord Bishop of Exeter on all causes depending between them.
  He married Agnes Kelloway (died 1518), great-grand-daughter of his step-mother Anna Cammell, and daughter of John Kelloway, son of John Kelloway of Sherborne, Dorset, by his wife Johanna Barrett, daughter of Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, Wiltshire, by his wife Anna Cammell. In 1478 John Kelloway settled various lands on his daughter Agnes and her husband Thomas Pomeroy. The Inquisition post mortem of Agnes states her to have died seized of Bowden Manor in Totnes Magna.
  Richard Pomeroy (fl.1531) of Bowden and of Rousdon, Devon, son and heir, who married Eleanor Coker, daughter of John Coker of Mappowder ("Maypowder"), Dorset. An heraldic escutcheon showing the arms of Pomeroy impaling Coker (Argent, on a bend gules three leopard's faces or) existed at one time in Bowden House, as recorded in a Roll of Arms made by Sir George Carew. Richard Pomeroy had a son Henry Pomeroy, who married Agnes Huckmore, daughter and heiress of William Huckmore. The marriage settlement commences: "in consideration of a marriage to be had, celebrated and solemnized between Henry Pomerey, son and heir apparent of Richard Pomerey of Bowdon, esquire, and Agnes, daughter of the said William Hokemore". Richard Pomeroy sold Bowden to John Giles (died 1552/3) of Totnes and his son William Giles.
caption: Arms of de la Pomeroy, feudal barons of Berry Pomeroy, Devon: Or, a lion rampant gardant gules armed and langued azure within a bordure engrailed sable