page_title: Manor of Bideford
section_title: Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495 – 1550)
hierarchical_section_title: Manor of Bideford / Normans / Feudal barony of Gloucester / Grenville / Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495 – 1550)
caption_attribution_description: English: Grenville arms on bench end in All Hallows Church, Woolfardisworthy, North Devon. Apparently relates to Roger Grenville (died 1545), present on the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545, whose son was the heroic Admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591). Roger Grenville (died 1545) married Thomasine Cole (d.1586),[1] a daughter of Thomas Cole of Slade[2] in the parish of Cornwood in Devon and of Bucks in the parish of Woolfardisworthy, North Devon.
context_page_description: The manor of Bideford in North Devon was held by the Grenville family between the 12th and 18th centuries. The full descent is as follows:
context_section_description: Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495 – 1550) (eldest son and heir). He entered the Inner Temple, with his brother John, in 1520 and served as MP for Cornwall in 1529. He married Matilda Bevil, a daughter and co-heiress of John Bevil of Gwarnock, St Allen, Cornwall. He was pre-deceased by his eldest son:
  Roger Grenville (died 1545), present on the Mary Rose when it sank in Portsmouth Harbour in 1545, whose son was the heroic Admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591). Roger Grenville (died 1545) married Thomasine Cole (d.1586), a daughter of Thomas Cole of Slade in the parish of Cornwood in Devon and of Bucks in the parish of Woolfardisworthy, North Devon. A bench-end from this period displaying the arms of Grenville survives in All Hallows Church, Woolfardisworthy. Thomasine survived her husband and remarried to Thomas Arundell (d.1574) of Ley and of Clifton in the parish of Landulph, in Cornwall, a grandson of Nicholas Arundell of Trerice by his wife Johanna St John (died 1482).
caption: Grenville arms on a bench-end in All Hallows Church, Woolfardisworthy, North Devon
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