page_title: Manor of Shirwell
section_title: Descent from Sir Thomas Beaumont (died 1450)
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Shirwell / de Poilley / Descent from Sir Thomas Beaumont (died 1450)
caption_attribution_description: Arms of Sir John Bassett (1462-1529) of Umberleigh, Devon, photograph of one of the monumental brasses on his chest tomb in Atherington Church, Devon. Quarterly 1st &amp; 4th: Barry wavy of six or and gules (Basset); 2nd: Barry of six vair and gules (Beaumont of Shirwell &amp; Umberleigh) 3rd: Gules, a saltire vair (Willington of Umberleigh)
context_page_description: The Manor of Shirwell was a manor in North Devon, England, centred on the village of Shirwell and largely co-terminous with the parish of Shirwell. It was for many centuries successively the seat of two of the leading families of North Devon, the Beaumonts and their heirs the Chichesters of Raleigh, Pilton, both of which families were seated at the estate of Youlston within the manor of Shirwell. The manor house which survives today known as Youlston Park is one of the most architecturally important historic houses in North Devon and exists largely in its Georgian form, but retains many impressive late 17th-century interiors.
context_section_description: Firstly he married Phillipa Dynham, daughter of Sir John Dinham (1359–1428) of Kingskerswell and aunt to John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham (1433–1501), by whom he had three sons and two daughters:
  Richard Beaumont, his eldest son who died childless before his father.
  William Beaumont (1427–1453), second son, who married Joan Courtenay, said to have been a daughter of his contemporary "Sir William Courtenay" (1428–1485) of Powderham, more probably of the latter's father Sir Philip Courtenay (1404–1463). The marriage was childless but Joan had an extra-marital affair with Sir Henry Bodrugan of Cornwall, whom she later married after her first husband's death. A son was born to Joan named John Bodrugan, who claimed to have been the son of William Beaumont, and after a lengthy legal case was granted the subsidiary Beaumont manor of Gittisham and changed his family name to Beaumont. This family continued several generations at Gittisham.
  Philip Beaumont (1432–1473), third son, MP in 1467 and Sheriff of Devon in 1469. He married Blanche Bourchier (died 1483), of whom a stone effigy exists in Shirwell Church, daughter of William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin (1407–1470), feudal baron of Bampton in Devon. She survived her first husband and married secondly Bartholomew St Ledger of Kent. The marriage was childless and Philip bequeathed his estates in two directions: firstly to his nephew Sir John III Bassett (1441–1485) of Whitechapel in Devon, the son of his sister Joan Beaumont who had married John II Bassett (1374–1463) of Whitechapel and of Tehidy in Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1449. The Bassetts received from this bequest the manors of Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon. The other part of Philip Beaumont's bequest went to his half-brother Thomas Beaumont (died 1487/8) (see below)
  Secondly Sir Thomas Beaumont married Alice Stukeley, daughter of Hugh Stukeley of Affeton, Devon, by whom he had three further sons:
  Thomas Beaumont (died 1487/8), fourth son, who married Mathye of unrecorded family, and had a son John Beaumont who predeceased his father. Thomas's heir was his younger brother Hugh Beaumont (c. 1457 – 1507).
  Hugh Beaumont (c. 1457 – 1507), fifth son, who married Thomasine Wise, daughter and heiress of Oliver Wise of Ford House and Wombwell Court, Devon. Hugh was a co-heir of his half-brother Philip Beaumont (died 1473), and his own heir was his daughter Margaret (or Maud) Beaumont who married John Chichester (1472 – 1537/8) of Raleigh. Thus the manors of Shirwell and Loxhore descended to the Chichester family.
  John Beaumont (died 1513), sixth son, a priest who died unmarried and childless.
caption: On a brass escutcheon on the monument to Sir John Basset (1462–1528) of Umberleigh in Atherington Church, possibly removed from the Umberleigh Chapel, the arms of Bassett Barry wavy of six or and gules (1st & 4th) quarter Beaumont (2nd quarter) and Willington (3rd quarter)
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