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Richard Bampfield MW - Wine Consultant
Richard Bampfield (1526–1594) of Poltimore and Bampfylde House in Exeter, both in Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1576. He is the ancestor of the Bampfylde Baronets and Barons Poltimore.
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- Origins
- Career
- Marriage and children
- Sons
- Daughters
- Heraldry of female descendants
- Monument in Poltimore Church
- References
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Origins
He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Bampfield (died 1528) of Poltimore by his wife Elizabeth Wadham, the widow of John Warre of Chipleigh (see Chipley Park, Somerset), second son of Sir Richard Warre of Hestercombe, and a daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham (died 1542) of Merryfield, Ilton in Somerset and of Edge, Branscombe in Devon. The Bampfield family had been seated at Poltimore since the 13th century.
Career
Bampfield's father died when he was two years of age, and the 18th-century genealogist Thomas Wotton related this tradition about his childhood:
...he became a prey to some great person, who carried him into a distant country, and bred him up in the drudgery of the family, concealing from him his quality and estate, and at last made him his huntsman; but one of his tenants, (being his nurse's husband,) discovering where he was detained, made him acquainted with his fortune; the truth of which he convinced him of, by a remarkable mole which he had in his back, and brought him away privately to Brimpton (the seat of John Sydenham, Esq; who assisted him in his return to Poltimore, and soon after gave him his daughter in marriage.) In confirmation of which, he lieth at length with a hound at his feet, under a monument in Poltimore church...
However, the editor of the 1771 edition of Wotton's genealogy added "Having received no account from the family, concerning this particular, I do not presume to give it as authentic."
Marriage and children
He married Elizabeth Sydenham (died 1599), daughter of Sir John Sydenham of Brympton d'Evercy, Somerset, by his wife Giles Brydges, a daughter of Sir Giles Brydges (c. 1462 – 1511) of Coberley, Gloucestershire, and sister of John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos (1492–1557). Her niece Elizabeth Sydenham was the wife of Admiral Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596). By his wife he had three sons and nine daughters as follows:
Sons
Daughters
Heraldry of female descendants
On the cornice of the monument to Richard Bampfield in Poltimore Church, are displayed 8 painted escutcheons depicting the arms of 5 of his sons-in-law, each impaling Bampfield, and 3 sons-in-law of his son and heir Sir Amias Bampfylde, each impaling Bampfield. Left to right on cornice:
1:Fulford of Great Fulford: Gules, a chevron argent
2:Argent, a bend sable
3:Gules, two bars wavy ermine
4:Argent, on a chevron azure three roses of the field
5:Cary of Clovelly: Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field
6:Dodderidge of Bremridge (son-in-law of Sir Amias Bampfield): Argent, two pales wavy azure between nine cross croslets gules
7:Hancock of Combe Martin (son-in-law of Sir Amias Bampfield): Gules, on a chief argent three cocks of the field.
8:Drake of Buckland Abbey (son-in-law of Sir Amias Bampfield): Sable, a fess wavy between two pole-stars Arctic and Antarctic argent
Monument in Poltimore Church
Richard Bampfield's monument, erected in 1604 by his son Amias Bampfield, survives in the south transept of Poltimore Church. It comprises two recumbent stone effigies, of Richard Bampfield and his wife, under a low canopy supported by arched openings and columns. A view of the monument is obstructed by pews in front and by the balcony above forming the manorial pew of the Bampfield family. The 8 painted escutcheons on the cornice depict the arms of 5 of his 8 sons-in-law, each impaling Bampfield, and the 3 sons-in-law of his son and heir Sir Amias Bampfylde, each impaling Bampfield.