Richard Edgcumbe (died 1489)

Richard Edgcumbe
Arms of Edgcumbe: Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent
High Sheriff of Devon
In office
1486–1487
Comptroller of the Household
In office
1485–1489
Member of Parliament for Tavistock
In office
1467-1468
1485-1486
Personal details
Bornca. 1443 (1443)
Died8 September 1489 (aged 45–46)
Morlaix, Brittany, France
SpouseJoan Tremayne
Children5, including Piers
RelativesRichard Edgcumbe (grandson)
Cotehele in Cornwall, residence of Sir Richard Edgcumbe
Arms of Sir Richard Edgcumbe impaled by Prideaux, signifying the marriage of his daughter Joan to Fulk Prideaux (1472-1531)[1] of Thuborough in the parish of Sutcombe in Devon. Bench end in Sutcombe Church

Sir Richard Edgcumbe (alias Edgecombe, etc.) (c. 1443 – 8 September 1489) of Cotehele in the parish of Calstock in Cornwall, was an English courtier and Member of Parliament.[2]

  1. ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.618, pedigree of Prideaux
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Edgcumbe [Edgecombe], Sir Richard (c. 1443–1489), administrator by J. L. Kirby