Josceline le Deneys

• Preferred Name: Josceline le Deneys^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Jellanus
  
• Alternate Name: Jollenus
  
• Alternate Name: Joscelinus
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: Y
  
• Life Sketch: 1166 in North Devon, England at LATI: N0.7365 LONG: E3.7189 with note: Description: held Pancrasweek Manor & Black Torrington hundred
  
• Birth: ABT 1135 in Pancrasweek, Devon, England at LATI: N0.8442 LONG: E4.4179
  
• FSID: 29W7-H18
  

1. Ralph Dennis, b. 1180 in Devonshire, England     d. 1239 in Devon, England

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: William Dennis -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222799
   
2. Title: Wikipedia: Manor of Orleigh: Descent of the Manor, Denys; Josceline le Deneys
   Author: Wikipedia: Manor of Orleigh; Descent of the manor; Denys.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Orleigh;
   Note: The Denys family was for many centuries the feudal tenant of Orleigh under the overlordship of Tavistock Abbey until 1538 when the abbey was dissolved in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and continued to hold it thereafter, under the overlordship of the Russell family, Earls of Bedford, who had acquired the abbey and its lands at the Dissolution. The descent of Denys of Orleigh is as follows: Josceline le Deneys (whose first name was Latinised to Jollenus, Jellanus or Joscelinus) was recorded in the 1166 Cartae Baronum return submitted by Henry de Pomeroy, feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in South Devon, as holding from him the manor of Pancrasweek, Black Torrington hundred, North Devon, and de Pomeroy himself held it from Tavistock Abbey. This Jollenus Dacus held Pancrasweek as one knight's fee on military feudal tenure. Orleigh formed a sub-manor of Pancrasweek, but was held by him under the non-military tenure of free socage, that is to say it was a heritable estate the service for which was monetary not military.] Dacus held two fees in total from de Pomeroy, as stated in his 1166 return. Ralph Denys (son) of Orleigh and Pancrasweek, living during the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189) William I Denys Jellanus II Denys Robert le Deneys. In the feudal aid of 1285 he is recorded as holding one knight's fee in Pancrasweek, half a fee at Southwick in Germansweek and half in Manaton (14 miles north of Berry Pomeroy Castle). In 1285 however Robert le Deneys was holding these manors not from the de Pomeroy barons but from the heirs of Patrick de Chaworth, who was successor in title to Brewer, lord of the manor of Buckland Brewer amongst others, who had himself purchased them from de Pomeroy. William II le Deneys (younger son), to whom Robert le Deneys gave Orleigh. John I le Deneys (son), in possession of Orleigh in 1342 Henry Denys (son) Richard Denys (died 1442) (son), who married Elizabeth Bowhay, daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Bowhay of Bowhay. In 1417 Orleigh was occupied by his wife's cousin, also called Elizabeth Bowhay, the daughter of John Bowhay and widow of Thomas Crydia. She was granted in 1417 by Edmund Stafford (died 1419), Bishop of Exeter, licence to have mass performed in her oratory at Orleigh. John II Denys (son), who married Joan Esse, daughter and heiress of William Esse (alias Ash, see Ashreigney, etc.) John III Denys (son), who married Joan Thorne, daughter of Thomas Thorne John IV Denys (d.1498) (son), who married Eleanor Gifford, daughter and co-heiress of Stephen Gifford of Theoborough. His daughter Elizabeth Denys was the first wife of John Basset (1462–1528) of Umberleigh, Devon, and her monumental brass effigy survives on his chest tomb in Atherington Church. William III Denys (son), Sheriff of Devon in 1466, who married Anne Stucley, daughter of Nicholas Stucley (born 1451)[14] lord of the manor of Affeton, Devon, by his wife Anne Pomeroy, daughter of Edward Pomeroy (d.1446), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy, Sheriff of Devon in 1431. Nicholas Denys (son), who married Philippa Sydenham, daughter of John Sydenham of Orchard Sydenham in Somerset. John V Denys (died 1584) (son), who married Dorothy Monck, a daughter of Anthony Monk (d.1545) of Potheridge, Devon, great-great-grandfather of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608-1670). William Denys (died 1605) (son). In 1573 he married Mary Vyell, daughter of William Vyell of Trevorder. As part of the marriage settlement his father settled onto the issue of the marriage the reversion of his manor of Farley in Petrockstowe. William contributed £25 to the defences against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died intestate. Anthony Dennis (1585–1641) (son), the last of the male line, whose monument survives in St Mary's Church, Buckland Brewer.Anthony Dennis (1585–1641) Anthony Dennis married twice: Firstly in 1610 to Elizabeth Wise (d.1623), daughter of Thomas Wise (1546-1593) of Sydenham, Devon. She bore him a son William (born 1611), who predeceased his father, and two daughters who died young. Secondly, to Gertrude Grenville, daughter of Sir Bernard Grenville (1567-1636), lord of the manors of Bideford, the seaport 4 miles north of Orleigh, and of nearby Stowe, in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall. Sir Bernard was the son of the renowned Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), Captain of "The Revenge" which was lost heroically fighting the Spaniards in the Azores, and the father of the renowned Sir Bevil Grenville (1596–1643) killed in heroic circumstances during the Civil War at the Battle of Lansdowne leading the Cornish Pikemen, memorialized by Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument on Lansdowne Hill near Bath, whose son was John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701). Gertrude bore him eight children, of whom only three infant daughters, aged between 8 and 14, survived their father as co-heiresses: Mary Dennis, the eldest, who married Sir Thomas Hampson, 2nd Baronet (died 1670), of Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Elizabeth Dennis (died 1664), who married twice, firstly in 1643 to John Hern and secondly to William Alston of Strixton, Northamptonshire. A slab exists on the floor of the Orleigh Chapel showing the arms of Alston impaling Dennis, inscribed thus: "In memory of Elizabeth Alston, daughter of Anthony Dennis of Orleigh Esqr., the wife of William Alston of Strixton in the county of Northampton, Esqr., who in sure and certain assurance of a (?) life departed ye 4th of June 1664". Gertrude Dennis, the youngest, who in 1664 married Nicholas Glynne of Glynne in Cornwall. In 1661 the three sisters conveyed jointly the manor of Orleigh to feoffees who sold it in 1684 to the Bideford tobacco merchant John I Davie (died 1710).
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3. Title: The Battle Abbey Roll : Deneys (Dennis) Family
   Author: Internet Archive: The Battle Abbey Roll Account of the Norman Lineages, by the Duchess of Cleveland; pages 292 & 293, Denise .
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/battleabbeyroll00unkngoog/page/n334/mode/2up?q=Deneys;
   Note: Denise, for deneys of Le Danois; a Danish family whose pedigree was traced from Jellanus Dacus, Lord of Pancras Weck in Devonshire, temp. Hen. II. Branches were seated at "Orleigh, in the parish of Buckland Brewer, the long contynewed dwellinge of the family"; ... The direct line from Jellanus Dacus ended in the fifth descent with Sir Robert le Deneys; that of Orleigh was carried on till about 1700, and the co-heiress married Sir Thomas Hamson and Glynn of Glynn.
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