01. Sir Walter Devereux
 [1]
of Bodenham,
Weobley and Whitchurch in Herefordshire, was born abt 1361 and died 25 June 1402.
He married in 1383/4 Agnes Crophull, who married second John Parr of
Kendal, and married third John Merbury, as his third wife. She was sole
heiress of Weobley, and received Lyonshall late in life. She died 3 Feb.
1436. He was a commissioner from 1382, and Constable of Builth Castle
in Radnorshire from 8 Feb. 1382 for about twelve years. From 9 Nov. 1385 he
served many terms as justice of the peace in Herefordshire. He was a king's
esquire in the expedition to Scotland in 1385. He received Weobley in 1386
on proff of age of his wife. Apparently he did not support King Richard II
during the political crisis of 1387-1388, but he was knighted by 1391 and
did go to Ireland with Richard II in Sept. 1394. He served as Sheriff
of Herefordshire in 1401, the year he was a Member of Parliament. He was a
member of Sir Edmund Mortimer's expedition to Radnorshire, and was wounded
when the English were defeated by the Welsh at the battle of Pilleth on 22
June 1402, and died three days later. His wife Agnes Crophull was, by
her second husband John Parr, the great-great-grandmother of Katherine Parr,
the last wife of King Henry VIII. 02. Sir Walter Devereux,
[1]
son of
Walter and Agnes of Salisbury in Wiltshire, was born about 1387. He married Elizabeth Bromwich of Herefordshire. She was
called Maud in Burke's Peerage. He died in 1419. 03. Sir Walter Devereux,
[1]
son of Walter
and Elizabeth of Weobley and Bodenham in Herefordshire, Branston, Cottesbach
and Newbold Verdon in Leichestershire, and Market Rasen in Lincolnshire,
born in 1411, died 22 or 23 April 1459. [CP, 5:321]. He married
Elizabeth Merbury,
daughter of Sir John Merbury.
04. Sir Walter Devereux,
[1]
son of Walter and Elizabeth of Woebley
and Bodenham (and Lyonshall in Herefordshire, Branston, Cottesbach and
Newbold Verdon in Leichestershire, and Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, born
about 1433, was slain in the battle of Bosworth, 22 Aug. 1485. He
married first, before 26 Nov. 1446, Anne De Ferrers, who was aged
eleven years, eight months in July 1450, daughter and heir of Sir William de
Ferrers of Chartley. She died 9 Jan. 1468/9, aged 30. On 17 March
1452/3 he and Anne had a grant of livery of her father's lands, she being
aged 14 and more. By right of his wife he became Lord Ferrers of Chartley.
He was aged about 27 when his father died in April 1459. He was with the
Duke of York in the skirmish at Ludford, but surrendered and threw himself
on the mercy of King Henry VI; he was allowed to live but had to forfeit his
lands, which he redeemed later on payment of a fine of 500 marks.
Nonetheless, he was Knight of the Shire for Herefordshire in 1460. He was
with Edward, Duke of York, on the advance from Glouchester to London in Feb.
1460/1, and was present at the council held in Baynard's Castle on 3 March
1460/1, where it was resolved to elevate the Duke of York as King Edward IV.
He was knighted after the battle of Towton, 29 March 1461, and then raised
to the rank of baron, and on 20 Feb. 1461/2 he was awarded an extensive
grant of forfeited lands. In Nov. 1462 he accompanied King Edward IV in his
expedition to the North, and on 18 June 1463 he was appointed Constable of
Aberystwyth Castle for life. On 16 Nov. 1469 he was granted the offices of
Constable of the castles and Steward of the lordships of Brecknock, Hay and
Huntington, as long as Henry, grandson and heir of Humphrey, Duke of
Buckingham was a minor. On 28 July 1470 he was appointed SHeriff of
Caernafon, and master forester of the Snowdon Hills in Wales, for life.
With other lords he swore, in the parliamentary chamber in Westminster on 3
July 1471 to accept Edward, Prince of Wales, as heir to the Crown. He was
elevated to K.G. on 24 April 1472. He was among those to be selected on 20
Feb. 1472/3 to be a tutor and councillor to the Prince until he was fourteen
years old.
He went to France with King Edward IV in July 1475, and was present at the
conference at Saint-Christ in Vermandois when the king agreed, on 13 August
1475, to withdraw his troops to England. After he was killed in the
battle of Bosworth 22 Aug. 1485
 , which ended the rein of King Richard III,
he was attainted of high treason by the Parliament which met 7 Nov. 1 Hen
VII (1485). There he was adjudged to have forfeited lands which he had held
fee simple, fee tail, or for life.
05. Elizabeth Devereux,
[1]
daughter of Walter and Agnes was born abt. 1452
of Chartley, Herefordshire, England. She married Sir
Richard
Corbet, son of Roger Corbet (1412) and Elizabeth Hopton abt. 1469.
She died in 1516.
I descend from their son
Robert Corbet who married Elizabeth
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