Sir Lewis Pollard, of Girleston^[1]

1465 - 1526  (61 years)

• Name	Lewis Pollard
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Born	1465
  WWW	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pollard
  Died	1526
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Pollard           b. Abt 1430
  Relationship	Birth

  
  

  Wife	Agnes Exte
  Count of Children	22
  Children	1. Sir Richard Pollard, of Ford Abbey           b. Abt 1505  [Birth]
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Career One of the Judges of the Common Pleas. From The History of the Worthies of England1: Sir Lewis Pollard of Kings Nimet in this County, Sergeant of the Law, and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the time of King Henry the Eighth, was a man of singular knowledge and worth; who by his Lady Elizabeth2 had, Eleven Sons, whereof four attained the honour of Knighthood: Sir Hugh Sir John of Ford Sir Richard Sir George, who got his honour in the defence of Bullen. All the rest, especially John Arch Deacon of Sarum, and Canon of Exeter, were very well advanced. Eleven Daughters married to the most potent Families in this County, and most of them Knights: So that (what is said of Cork in Ireland, that all the Inhabitants therein are Kinne) by this Match almost all the Ancient Gentry in this County are allied. The Portraiture of Sir Lewis and his Lady, with their two and twenty Children, are set up in a Glasse Window at Nimet-Bishop. There is a Tradition continued in this Family; that the Lady glassing the Window in her husbands absence at the term in London; caused one child more then she then had, to be set up, presuming (having had one and twenty already, and usually conceiving at her husbands coming home) she should have another child; which inserted in expectance, came to passe accord∣ingly. This memorable Knight died Anno 15402. Footnotes [1] History of the Worthies of England. By Thomas Fuller, D.D. Folio. London, 1662, see here [2] There are a few errors in this profile; firstly, the date of death given is wrong, in so far as contemporary sources (e.g. Wikipedia all give 1526 not 1540. Secondly, the name of Lewis' wife was Agnes, not Elizabeth.

  
  

• Sources

  [S0445] Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, JL Vivian, (Execter, 1895), Pollard of Way; Pages 597-599.