Bableigh, Parkham

The present Bableigh Farm, in the parish of Parkham, Devon, near the site of the demolished former mansion house occupied by the Risdon family from the 12th - 18th centuries

Bableigh (pronounced Babe-leigh) is an historic estate in the parish of Parkham in North Devon, England. It is separated from the village of Parkham by the Bableigh Brook. It was the earliest recorded seat of the Risdon family in Devonshire, from which was descended the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640).

Descent

de Oilgi

The holder of bableigh during the reign of King William the Conqueror 91066-10870 was Robert de Oilgi.[1]

Risdon

Arms of Risdon of Bableigh and Winscott: Argent, three bird-bolts sable[2]

According to Tristram Risdon (d.1640) himself, in his work The Survey of Devon, the Risdon family originated in Gloucestershire, where during the reign of King Richard I (1189-1199) they were lords of the manor of Risdon.[3] The Risdon family is first recorded at Bableigh in 1274,[4] and a member of this family, apparently Giles I Risdon (1494-1583), built the north aisle of Parkham Church (in which are situated several monuments to the Risdon family, now very worn and illegible) and also Veybridge (alias Heybridge[5]) over the River Torridge.[6] The descent of Bableigh in the Risdon family was as follows:[7]

13th century

15th century and subsequent

Sources

References

  1. Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.243
  2. Per the 17th-century Risdon monument and (newly restored) Chafe monument in St Giles in the Wood Church, and as given by Thomas Robson in The British Herald. However, the published edition of Risdon's own Note-book gives his arms with the tinctures reversed: Sable, three bird bolts palewise argent,(Tristram Risdon's Notebook, 1897 edition, p.41 ) as does his contemporary Devon historian Sir William Pole (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.499)
  3. Risdon, p.243
  4. Risdon, p.243, regnal date 3 Edward I
  5. Prince, p.702
  6. Risdon, p.243
  7. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.648-50, pedigree of Risdon of Bableigh
  8. Risdon, p.243, regnal date 3 Edward I
  9. Estimated date of life as his great-grandson died in 1518
  10. Vivian, p.648
  11. Vivian, p.648
  12. Vivian, p.648
  13. Vivian, p.648
  14. Vivian, p.648, denoted by "MI"
  15. Prince, p.702
  16. Risdon, p.243
  17. Vivian, p.649 & pedigree p.650
  18. Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.235
  19. Vivian, p.224
  20. Not mentioned in Vivian, p.599, pedigree of Pollard of Langley
  21. Risdon, p.314
  22. Prince, p.644
  23. Risdon, p.314
  24. Vivian, p.649
  25. Vivian, p.649
  26. Vivian, p.648
  27. Jenkins, Alexander, Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the City of Exeter and its Environs, 2nd edition, Exeter, 1841, p. 125
  28. Vivian, p.397
  29. Vivian, p.569, pedigree of Monk of Potheridge
  30. Vivian, p.649
  31. Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London
  32. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.469; Image from Flickr ; For transcript of inscription, see Prince, p.703
  33. Great-nephew per Vivian, p.649, but called "his eldest brother's son" by Prince, p.703
  34. Prince, p.703
  35. Vivian, p.649
  36. Rogers, W. H. (1938) Buckland Brewer, reprinted 2000, Snetzler, M.F. (Ed.), Barcott, Buckland Brewer, p.14, quoting Inquisition post mortem 10 Charles I, 473 N.14
  37. Vivian, p.649; p.93, pedigree of Blewett
  38. History of Parliament biography of her brother John Bluett (1603-1634), MP
  39. Vivian, p.649; For transcript of inscription, see Prince, p.703
  40. Vivian, p.649
  41. Vivian, p.649
  42. Vivian, p.210, pedigree of Coffin
  43. Vivian, p.649
  44. Vivian, p.649
  45. Vivian, p.649
  46. Vivian, p.649
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