page_title: Descent of Holnicote
section_title: de Holne
hierarchical_section_title: Descent of Holnicote / de Holne
caption_attribution_description: English: Stained glass window now in stables of Holnicote House, Selworthy, Somerset. (Per information notice attached to window, 2014) These are the arms of arms of Charles Steyning (d.1592) of Holnicote, of four quarters, impaling the arms of his wife (Margaret?) Pollard. 1st quarter Argent, a bat displayed sable (Steyning) 2nd: Argent, a chevron sable between three holly/ilex leaves erect proper (de Holne) 3rd: Argent, on a bend sable three fishes (Huish) 4th: Azure, a fess in chief a chevron argent (Sprye)(Robert Steyning (d.1483) married Love Sprye of Devon). All impaling: Argent, a chevron azure between three mullets gules (Pollard), for his wife Margaret Pollard (1561-1631) of Kilve, Somerset. (See her monumental brass in Selworthy Church). The Pollards of Kilve were descended from Richard Pollard of Kilve, 2nd son of Robert Pollard (d.1576) of Knowstone, Devon[1] by his wife Agnes Chichester, daughter of Richard Chichester of Hall, Bishops Tawton, Devon. Robert Pollard was the 4th son of Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526) of Kings Nympton, Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas
context_page_description: The descent of the Holnicote estate in Somerset, England, is as follows:
context_section_description: William de Holne held the manor in the reign of King Edward I (1272–1307), and in the same reign, according to "Savage", Walter Barun (or Bidun) held a portion of it. Ten acres of arable and two acres of meadow land were held from the king in chief by the serjeanty "of hanging on a certain forked piece of wood the red deer that died of the murrain in the forest of Exmoor, and also of lodging and entertaining at the tenant's expense such poor or decrepit persons as came to him, for the souls of the ancestors of King Edward I". The canting arms of de Holne, Argent, a chevron sable between three holly leaves erect proper, are visible in the second quarter of the arms of Charles Steyning (d.1592) which survive in a 16th-century stained glass window fragment now in the stable block at Holnicote, formerly in the demolished manor house. the arms are as follows:
  1st quarter Argent, a bat displayed sable (Steyning)
  2nd: Argent, a chevron sable between three holly (ilex) leaves erect proper (de Holne)
  3rd:  Argent, on a bend sable three fishes (Huish)
  4th:  Azure, a fess in chief a chevron argent (Sprye)(Robert Steyning (d.1483) married Love Sprye of Devon).
  All impaling: Argent, a chevron azure between three mullets gules (Pollard), for his wife Margaret Pollard (1561–1631) of Kilve, Somerset, whose monumental brass survives in Selworthy Church.
caption: 16th century fragment of stained glass now in the stables at Holnicote, formerly in the Staynings manor house. These are the arms of Charles Steyning (d.1592) of Holnicote. The canting arms of de Holne are shown in the 2nd quarter: Argent, a chevron sable between three holly leaves erect proper
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