Adam Fortescue

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴⁹
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

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁶²
King John, by his letters patent dated in the 10^th year of his reign, enfeoffed therewith John Fortescue, after whom it came to his son Sir Richard and after his to Adam Fortescue, who was dead in 31 Edw. I. for then it was specified he held Wymonston by one knight's-fee of the honour of Tremeton. His son and heir was another Adam, who rants to Henry Lopperigge seven shillings annual rent, which Richard, the son of Philip Gretun, used to pay him for his tenement at Wymonston ; witnesses, Sir Andrew Trelesk, Peter de Prideaux, &c. dated at Wymonston, Friday next following te feast of St. Ambrose (April 4) 1302, the 30^th of King Edward, son of Henry. To the deed is an oval seal affixed, whereon was the badge of a star, and circumscribed Sigillum Adæ Fortescu. The second Adam Fortescue was succeeded by his son an heir, another Adam, who married Anne, daughter and coheir to William Delport, of Old Port, in com' Devon, by whom he had three sons, William, Richard, and Nicholas

Collin's Peerage of England, Vol. VII, 391-395