Isabel de Valletort
- Marriage: Thomas de Corbet
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141 Thomas Corbet of Caus, Shropshire, died in 1274, and was married to Isabel, widow of Alan de Dunstanville, sister and in her issue coheir of Roger de Vautort, and the daughter of another Roger de Vautort of Harberton, Devonshire.
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XIIA, (Corbet), p. 417
• Background Information. 980 In 1275, 4 Edward I, Roger de Valletort (son and heir of another Roger Valletor), the last of the family of that name, resigned his right and interest in the manor and castle of Trematon, with the appurtenances, to Richard Earl of Cornwall. In 1315, 9 Edward II, Peter Corbet (son of Isabella, sister of Roger de Valletort) and Henry de Pomeroy, the descendants of Roger de Valletort's two sisters, -to whom, at his death in 1289, he had bequesthed his large landed property, -commenced a suit in parliament for the recovery of the manor and honor of Tremation, alledging that when the said Roger made the deed of gift in favor of Richard Earl of Cornwall, he was not in his right mind.
~ A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, Vol. IV, p. 176
• Background Information. 981 In 1289, Roger de Valletort, the last of the family of that name, died, bequeathing his large landed property to his two sisters. Isabel married, first Alan de Dunstanville, and second, Thomas Corbet, Sheriff of Shropshire in 1249. The other sister and co-heir married Pomeroy, of Berry-Pomeroy in Devon, and Tregony castle, Cornwall. In 9 Edward II (1315), Peter Corbet, grandson of Isabel, joined with Henry de Pomeroy in petitioning parliament for the recovery of the manor and honor of Trematon, alleging that when the said Roger made the deed a gift in favor of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, he was no compos mentis.
~ Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Vol. X, p. 152
Isabel married Thomas de Corbet, son of Sir Robert Corbet Lord of Caus and Emma Pantulf. (Thomas de Corbet died in 1274 in Caus, Shropshire, England 141.)
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