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Walter PAUNCEFOOTE, Esq.
Abt 1455 - 1486 (~ 31 years)
Has 16 ancestors and 13 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Walter PAUNCEFOOTE Suffix [ONS gp] Esq. Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1455 - Shown as aged 30 years and more when IPMs were held for his father.
Gender Male Died 22 Aug 1486 - Date from IPMs (calendar entries):
he died 22 Aug 1487, according to the original Hampshire and Wiltshire IPMs, 22 Aug 1486 according to additional enquiries in 1494/5;
he died 15 May 1487, according to the Somerset and Dorset inquisitions.
If he did die on 22 August it would appear it must have been 1486, as the writs for the Dorset and Somerset inquistions had been issued before 22 Aug 1487!
I wonder if he died away from home, since his daughter Ann expressed a wish to be buried in the chantry where her grandfather was buried, rather than her father.
Alt. Death 15 May 1487 Inquisition Post Mortem 4 Nov 1487 Dorset - This shows that Walter died 15 May, 2 Hen. VII, seised of the under-mentioned manor in fee. Peter Paunesfote, aged half a year and more, is his son and heir.
Property in Dorset:
Manor and advowson of Little Hynyngton, alias Hyneton [Hinton Parva], worth 5 marks, held of the King in chief, by service of 1/2 of a knight's fee.
A writ of diem clausit extremum was issued dated 27 May 2 Hen. VII (1487) and the inquisition itself was on 4 Nov, 3 Hen. VII (1487) before Richard Vowell, escheator.
(The inquisition can be seen at TNA, ref. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10173828">C 142/3/91 and E 150/890; I have not yet seen this - the information here is from a calendar, available online on the BHO website (no. 338).
Inquisition Post Mortem 6 Nov 1487 Somerset - This shows that Walter enfeoffed William Carent, John Fitzjames, Henry Burnell, and William Knoyle, esqs., and William Bucke, clerk., of the under-mentioned manor of Compton.
He died 15 May, 2 Hen. VII, seised of the other under-mentioned lands in fee. Peter Paunesfote, aged three quarters of a year and more, is his son and heir.
Property in Somerset:
Manor and advowson of Compton Paunesfote, worth £23, held of John Lord Dynham, service unknown.
Three messuages, a cottage, and 60 acres of arable in Blakeford, worth 40s., and a toft and 20 acres of arable, in Maperton, worth 10s., held of John, Abbot of Glastonbury, by doing fealty and suit to his court of frankpledge of Whytley at Hokeday [the Tuesday 9 days after Easter Day] and Michaelmas [29 Sept], for all service.
A writ of diem clausit extremum was issued dated 27 May 2 Hen. VII (1487) and the inquisition itself was on 6 Nov, 3 Hen. VII (1487) before Richard Vowell, escheator.
(The inquisition can be seen at TNA, ref. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10173827">C 142/3/90; I have not yet seen this - the information here is from a calendar, available online on the BHO website (no. 337).
Inquisition Post Mortem 18 Jan 1488 Wiltshire - This shows that the findings (death of Walter and particulars about his heir) were as for the Hampshire IPM.
Property in Wiltshire:
A capital messuage, 4 virgates of land, 20 acres of meadow, and 16 acres of pasture in Birtford [Britford] beside Salisbury, worth 66s. 8d., held of the Lord Hungerford, service unknown.
A writ of diem clausit extremum was issued dated 28 Nov 3 Hen. VII (1487) and the inquisition itself was on 18 Jan, 1 Hen. VII (1487/8) before Henry Rake, Esq., escheator.
(The inquisition can be seen at TNA, ref. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10173748">C 142/3/11; I have not yet seen this - the information here is from a calendar, available online on the BHO website (no. 260).
Inquisition Post Mortem 22 Jan 1488 Hampshire - This shows that Walter Paunesfote, died 22 Aug. last, seised of the under-mentioned manor and lands. Peter Paunesfote, half-a-year old and more, is his son and heir.
Property in Hampshire:
Manor called 'Paunesfotes Hill' beside Romsey, 300 acres of arable, 200 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, and 6s. 4d. quit-rent issuing out of divers tenements, in Romsey, worth £12, held of the King, as of the duchy of Lancaster, by service of one knight's fee.
A tenement in Romsey called 'Gaterygges place,' and 8 acres of arable and 3 acres of meadow in Stanbrygges felde, in the parish of Romsey, worth 26s. 8d., held of the Abbot of Romsey, service unknown.
A writ of diem clausit extremum was issued dated 28 Nov 3 Hen. VII (1487) and the inquisition itself was on 22 Jan, 1 Hen. VII (1487/8) before Henry Rake, Esq., escheator.
(The inquisition can be seen at TNA, ref. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10173747">C 142/3/10; I have not yet seen this - the information here is from a calendar, available online on the BHO website (no. 259).
Inquisition Post Mortem 21 Jan 1495 Alton, Hampshire, England 
Wiltshire - An additional inquisition was held by writ Ad melius inquirendum regarding Walter Paunesfote, esq.
Whereas by an inquisition taken before Henry Rake, escheator, it was found that the said Walter died seised of a messuage and land in Byrtford, but his estate therein is not specified, now it is found that he died 22 Aug., 2 Hen. VII seised thereof in fee.
Property in Wiltshire:
A capital messuage, 4 virgates of land, 20 acres of meadow, and 16 acres of pasture in Byrtford [Britford] beside Salisbury.
The writ Ad melius inquirendum was issued on 2 Dec. 10 Hen. VII (1494), and the inquisition was held on 21 Jan., 10 Hen. VII (1494-5).
(The inquisition can be seen at TNA, ref. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10230277">C 142/10/26; I have not yet seen this - the information here is from a calendar, available online on the BHO website (no. 990).
Inquisition Post Mortem 22 Jan 1495 Alton, Hampshire, England Hampshire - An additional inquisition was held by writ of Que plura.
This shows that Walter Paunesfote, died 22 Aug., 2 Hen. VII, seised of the under-mentioned messuage and lands in fee, over and above the lands specified in the inquisition taken at his death and returned into the Chancery. Richard Wylloughby, esq., and Isabel his wife have occupied the said messuage and lands since the said Walter's death, by what title the jury know not.
[Isabel was Walter's widow, who had remarried to Richard Willoughby].
Property in Hampshire:
A messuage, 120 acres of land, and 20 acres of meadow in Broughton, worth 40s., held of John Ryse, clerk., Master of the Alms House of Portesmouth, service unknown.
The writ of Que plura was issued on 2 Dec. 10 Hen. VII (1494), inq. 22 Jan., 10 Hen. VII (1494-5), taken at Aulton [Alton], before John Uvedale, esq., escheator.
(The inquisition can be seen at TNA, ref. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10230276">C 142/10/25; I have not yet seen this - the information here is from a calendar, available online on the BHO website (no. 259).
Siblings1 brother and 1 sister Patriarch & Matriarch 
Richard PAUNCEFOOTE, b. Est 1330, d. Abt 1369 (Age ~ 39 years) (2 x Great Grandfather)
Cecilia TURNEY, b. Est 1370, d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandmother)Person ID I25216 All Last Modified 30 Apr 2020
Father Sir Walter PAUNCEFOOTE, b. Abt Dec 1429, d. 26 Jun 1485 (Age ~ 55 years) Mother Thomasine BAMPFIELD, b. Est 1432, d. Bef 1485 (Age ~ 52 years) Married - The Bampfield pedigree in Vivian shows that the vis of 1564 showed that Thomasine Bampfield had been married to one Walter Pauncefoote. No other information was given.
It seems almost certain it was this Walter since:
1. The surname Pauncefoot is a rare one.
2. This family are about the same social standing as the Bampfields.
3. This Walter seems to have had a sister Margaret who married Thomasine's brother, William.
4. A Peter Bampfield, possibly the brother of Thomasine and William of that name, was clearly a friend of Walter's, so it is likely the families knew each other.
5. A Chancery Court case concerning a marriage settlement concerns a Walter son of Walter and Thomasin daughter of John, and so fits with both of these families. It names property that from Pauncefoote IPMs clearly associates it with this particular Pauncefoote family.
6. Although this Walter had a son Walter and, judging by the Pauncefoote vis, a father also called Walter, it is clear that the son died married to an Isabel, considering his young age probably his only wife. Walter the father is shown in the vis as having a wife who was a Davers or Davies.
The estimated ages of Thomasine's siblings suggest she was an age to make marriage to this Sir Walter the most likely.
7. It is most likely a Bampfield from Poltimore would marry someone from Compton Pauncefoote than from Gloucestershire, where most other Pauncefootes seem to have been living at this time, with others more distant.
Family ID F9744 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Isabel BIDICKE, b. Est 1458, d. Between 25 Nov 1524 and 15 Dec 1524 (Age ~ 66 years)
Other Partners: Richard WILLOUGHBY m. Between 1486 and 1495Children3 children Last Modified 5 Nov 2017 Family ID F9827 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Child - Anne PAUNCEFOOTE - 4 Jul 1486 - Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset, England 
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