Denys Rolle (died 1638)

Denys Rolle
Arms of Rolle: Or, on a fesse dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants
Sheriff of Devon
In office
1636
Personal details
Born1614 (1614)
Died1638 (1639) (aged 24)
SpouseMargaret Poulett
Children6
Heraldic escutcheon of Denys Rolle (1614–1638), Rolle Mausoleum, Bicton, showing the following ten quarterings of the Rolle and Denys families[1] 1st:Rolle; 2nd:Denys; 3rd:Dabernon; 4th:Giffard of Halsbury in the parish of Parkham; 5th:Stapledon; 6th:Bockerell; 7th:Cristenstowe; 8th:Gobodesley; 9th:Chiderleigh; 10th:Done (or Dunn)

Denys Rolle (1614–1638) of Bicton and Stevenstone in Devon was Sheriff of Devon in 1636.[2] He was one of the biographer John Prince's Worthies of Devon.

  1. ^ Harding,Lt.-Col. William. An Account of the Ecclesiastical Edifices of Exeter, published in Exeter Diocesan Architectural Association Transactions, 1851–1853 and 1863, p.278
  2. ^ Wolffe, Mary, Gentry Leaders in Peace And War: The Gentry Governors of Devon in the Early...