TREMAYNE FAMILY HISTORY

First Generation
1 Peter/Perys de Tremayne (Knight Templar?)
b abt 1240 Cornwall marr unknown abt 1273.They had the following children.
i. John Tremayne b abt 1275 Cornwall
ii. Peter Tremayne b abt 1276 Cornwall
Peter/Perys de Tremayne was Lord of the Manor of Tremayne in St Martin in Meneage, Cornwall
• Meneage in Cornish……Land of the Monks.
Peter named in De Banco Roll lEDWl no 3 (1273)
SOME FEUDAL COATS of ARMS by Joseph Foster
Perys/Peter Tremayne. El (1272-1307). Bore, gules, three dexter arms conjoined and flexed in triangle or, hands clenched proper.
THE CARTULARY OF ST. MICHAELS MOUNT.
The Cartulary of St Michaels Mount contains a charter whereby Robert, Count of Mortain who became Earl of Cornwall about 1075
conferred on the monks at St Michaels Mount 3 acres in Manech (Meneage) namely Treboe, Lesneage, Tregevas and Carvallack.
This charter is confirmed in substance by a note in the custumal of Otterton Priory that the church had by gift of Count Robert 2
plough lands in TREMAINE 3 in Traboe 3 in Lesneage 2 in Tregevas and 2 in Carvallack besides pasture for all their beasts ( i.e. on
Goonhilly)
CORNISH MANORS.
It was usual also upon Cornish Manors to pay a heriot (a fine) of the best beast upon the death of a tenant; and there was a custom
that if a stranger passing through the County chanced to die, a heriot of his best beast was paid, or his best jewel, or failing that his
best garments to the Lord of the Manor.
CORNISH LANGUAGE
Cornish in the C12th......
If we draw a line from Padstow through Bodmin and to Fowey, west of the line only Cornish spoken, east of the line Cornish /
English spoken......While the less well- to- do used Cornish, principal parishioners used English or French the language which
replaced English at the top of the social ladder since the Norman Conquest, and which was even threatening to drive English to
extinction. Cornish had ominously become the language of the lower class even in west Cornwall. Above it in social ranking were
now not one but two languages.
CROWAN PARISH
The track that leads from Clowance (formerly the residence of the St. Aubyn family) to Crowan Parish Church over the farm land of
Tremayne in this Parish is known as demans (demesne?). Could this also be a former Tremayne family Manor House? More likely to
have been a half way house. The Tremaynes owned property in the St Ives & Lelant area, as traveling over land in medieval
Cornwall would have been a slow and uncomfortable process halfway between their Manor House at Tremayne, St Martin and St
Ives is Crowan Parish.
WHO’S WHO
Who’s who in the Meneage district during the 1250’s to 1280’s
John of Whalesborough was Prior and Rector of St Mawgan in Meneage in 1259
Martin de Funteines was Lord of Halliggye in Meneage in 1262
Ralph Vyel was Prior of St Michaels Mount in 1262.
Robert Breto was Lord of Trelan in 1250 followed by Osbert le Sor as Lord in 1260
Bartholomew de Chamond was Lord of Trenoweth - Chamond in 1249 he was a Merchant for Richard Earl of Cornwall.
John le Seneschal held Rosenython in 1280 and Mudgeon in 1324 the principal residence of this family was Trenithick, Wendron.
Thomas de Trelan-byghan Lord of Trelanvean in 1278.
Reginald le Potier was Lord of Trelease in 1260
The Reskymer family of Reskymer
The Carminow family of Carminow
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