William DE FURNEAUX

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: was a Knight

Notes:

Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - england: executor of and heir by entail, to his father; m. ab 1327 Alice, dau. of Sir Henry de Umfraville of Penarth Point, Co. Glamorgan, Wales, on the Bristol Channel. He was one of the principal land owners of his county, and d. withut surviving male issue. He recd. his numerous inherited estates on the death of his father 1316, acquired Strington; and Lapford in No. Devon, came to him by his wife, 1327-8.... He was returned as Man-at-Arms in 1324, summoned to military service in 1325 & again in 1335; was Commissioner of Array in Somerset in 1325 & 1326, deputized to certify as to those to receive Knighthood; and in 1325 & 1327 was charged with the custody of Bridgewater Castle. He was Knight of the Shire of Somerset, in the Parliament of 2 Edwd. III (1328), summoned to Northampton; and in the Parliament of 18 Edwd. III, (1344), summoned to Westminster; and his arms as recorded were "Gules, a bend betw. six crosses-crosslet, or; which are still preserved on some encaustic tiles in 'Cleve Abbey' - where he and his Father were benefactors - to which, later heraldic authorities add a crest. The ensignia & colors displayed by father & son were practicaly identical. He was witness to important state papers in 1327 and again in 1342. He made provision for five chaplains to clebrate mass daily in 'Kilve Church,' for the souls of himself & his heirs, of his father & gr. father, his wife & her father. His only son William, b. 1328 d. in his lifetime; so the vast Furneaux estates mainly passed to heirs female - a daughter & his sisters.

Symon married Alice DE UMFRAVILLE about 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]