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Family: Sir William STRODE, Knight / Dewnes GLANVILLE (F8515)
m. 31 Mar 1625-
Father | Male
Sir William STRODE, Knight
Born Abt 1562 Died Buried 28 Jun 1637 The Church of St. Mary Blessed Virgin, Plympton St. Mary, Devon, England 
Married 31 Mar 1625 St. Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, Devon, England Other Spouse Mary SOUTHCOTE | F8078 Married 15 Jul 1581 Ss. Peter Paul and Thomas’ of Canterbury Church, Bovey Tracey, Devon, England Father Richard STRODE | F7931 Family Group Page Mother Frances CROMWELL | F7931 Family Group Page
Mother | Female
Dewnes GLANVILLE
Born Est 1574 Died Buried 16 Sep 1635 The Church of St. Mary Blessed Virgin, Plympton St. Mary, Devon, England Other Spouse Henry VOSPER | F8514 Married Between 30 Aug 1598 and 1600 Father Nicholas GLANVILLE, Gent. | F8156 Family Group Page Mother Elizabeth POYNTER | F8156 Family Group Page
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Notes Married:
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 May 2016)
"William Strode knight and Mistres Dewnes Vosper were marryed the 31 of March" - under heading 'March 1625' Dewnes had no children with Sir William, and may have had none by her previous marriage, certainly no step-children are mentioned in her husband's will. On marrying William she became a step-mother, with some of his children in their teens.
Second son William was aged about 30 when they married, but included Dewnes when he had a monument placed in Plympton St Mary Church in memory of his parents, saying in the incription:
"Patri Guilielmo, matri Mariæ et Dionysiæ quasi matri Monumentum hoc posuit Guilielmus Strode" - "To his father William, to his mother Mary and to Dionise, virtually a mother to him, William Strode placed this monument".
Who was Dewnes?
On the Glanville tree on p. 411 of Vivian (Devon Visitations) Vivian shows Dewnes' as marrying Sir William Strode after her marriage to Thomas Polwhele.
Sir William Strode did marry in Tavistock, presumably his bride's parish as he was of Newnham in Plympton St. Mary, on 31 March 1625, and a John Glanville was involved with the marriage settlement (see DHC catalogue entry for rec. 1039 M/F 13). This shows that Dewnes' was a widow when she married William.
Despite this on p. 719 of Vivian (Devon visitations, the Strode tree) Vivian shows Sir William Strode's 2nd wife as Dewnes Vosper daughter of Stephen Vosper. This seems to be an error, maybe Stephen was Dewnes' father-in-law. Of course Dewnes' could have been both wife and daughter of a Vosper, but the arms on a monument in Plympton St. Mary's Church to William and his two wives shows Dewnes' arms as the Glanville ones.
The question then is which Dewnes Glanville did Sir William marry, the daughter of Judge John (as shown by Vivian) or of his brother Nicholas (as on Wikipedia, citing the Glanville tree in Vivian despite not agreeing)?
In his will Sir William left bequests to Nicholas and Dewnes, brother and niece respectively of Dewnes, daughter of Nicholas, so I think it was Nicholas' daughter to whom Sir William was married. Hopefully the marriage jointure information will confirm; alternatively, confirming that the burial of a Dionisia Polwhele in 1655 was Dionisia the daughter of Judge John would rule her out.
(There is no addenda item regarding either the Glanville tree or this part of the Strode tree, and I have not found the marriage of a Dewnes Glanville or Polwhele to a Vosper; if Dewnes married Henry Vosper in Tavistock,as seems most likely, the relevant PR does not survive).
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 May 2016)