William Fortescue

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
William Fortescue, lord of Whympston, co. Devon, son of William Fortescue, lord of Whympston and his wife Alice Strechlegh, daughter of Walter de Strechlegh, married Eliazabeth Beauchamp, daughter and eventual heir of Sir John Beauchamp, knight.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 246E:33

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁵⁹
Three Adam Fortescues follow Richard, son of Sir John Fortescue. The third Adam married Anna, daughter of "William de la Port, of Old Port," and they had sons, Richard, Nicholas and their heir William Fortescue, of Wimpston, who paid his "knith's fee in 1345, at the ceremony of the knighthood of the 'Black Prince." Wimpston was being held by him as "of the honor of Tremation" in Cornwal, which had also belonged to Robert, Earl of Corwall and Mortain, and was one of the two castles and the head of his honour in that county. This William Fortescue married Alice, daughter of Walter Strechleigh, of Strechleigh, in the parish of Erminton and thus obtained lands in Tamerton. In 1360, by grant of William's kinsman, Richard Malduit, aliam Somaster, whose mother had been a co-heir of de la Port, he had a further extension of property in the form of tenements at Old Port, in Modbury, and Painston.

~Devonshire Wills, pp. 456-460

William married Alice Strechlegh, daughter of Walter Strechlegh and Unknown ¹⁶⁰.^,1459