Individual Details
Thomas Spoure
(Abt 1478 - Aft 1509)
== Biography ==
Captain Thomas Spoure of Misterton in Somerset was captain of a troop of the "kings horse" who had been sent to Cornwall to suppress a rising against the Crown, and there met and married the heiress to the manor of Trebartha in the parish of North Hill in 1498. The manor was not very large, but he must have brought some money with him, as he and his sons were were soon buying up land, and by the mid 1500's their property was considerable. They owned good quality farmland for at least 5 miles out to BOLVENTOR AND JAMAICA INN. They bought other lands in Cornwall as well. Misterton was sold in the late 1500's.
Spoure of Trebartha in Northill married the heiress of Trebartha in the reign of Henry VII.; became extinct in 1729. The Spoures married heiresses of Rouse of Whitstone, and Speccot of Anderdon. The heiress of Spoure married Bellot, and afterwards Grylls.
Parishes - Misterton British History Onlinewww.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117082. Shareby grant of 1399 and which was known during the Middle Ages as 'Sporisplace'. (fn. 29). Philip Spoure was succeeded by his son, William Spoure of Misterton.
The Old Court Mistertonwww.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-262416-court-close-court. ShareExplore more of the area around Misterton, Somerset at Explore Britain. Known in late C13, and called 'Sporisplace' after Spoure family who owned it from .General Armoury Spoore, or Spoure Trebartha and Northill, co. Cornwall, and Misterton, co. Somerset;
RICHARD SPOURE, of Trebartha, temp. James l., son of HENRY SPOURE, of Northill, who was fourth in descent from PHILIP SPOORE, of Misterton.
Spurre (co. Cornwall).Arms of Spoure: — Gules, on a chevron Or, a rose of the first, and two spur-rowels (mullets) pierced Sable.CREST:..A demi antelope Ermine erased Gules maned and attired Or, holding in the mouth a broken spear Sable headed Argent point downwards.
== Sources ==
* http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50618.
* https://www.facebook.com/pages/Captain-Thomas-Spoure-Spurr-Lord-of-Trebartha/249046398489957
Captain Thomas Spoure of Misterton in Somerset was captain of a troop of the "kings horse" who had been sent to Cornwall to suppress a rising against the Crown, and there met and married the heiress to the manor of Trebartha in the parish of North Hill in 1498. The manor was not very large, but he must have brought some money with him, as he and his sons were were soon buying up land, and by the mid 1500's their property was considerable. They owned good quality farmland for at least 5 miles out to BOLVENTOR AND JAMAICA INN. They bought other lands in Cornwall as well. Misterton was sold in the late 1500's.
Spoure of Trebartha in Northill married the heiress of Trebartha in the reign of Henry VII.; became extinct in 1729. The Spoures married heiresses of Rouse of Whitstone, and Speccot of Anderdon. The heiress of Spoure married Bellot, and afterwards Grylls.
Parishes - Misterton British History Onlinewww.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117082. Shareby grant of 1399 and which was known during the Middle Ages as 'Sporisplace'. (fn. 29). Philip Spoure was succeeded by his son, William Spoure of Misterton.
The Old Court Mistertonwww.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-262416-court-close-court. ShareExplore more of the area around Misterton, Somerset at Explore Britain. Known in late C13, and called 'Sporisplace' after Spoure family who owned it from .General Armoury Spoore, or Spoure Trebartha and Northill, co. Cornwall, and Misterton, co. Somerset;
RICHARD SPOURE, of Trebartha, temp. James l., son of HENRY SPOURE, of Northill, who was fourth in descent from PHILIP SPOORE, of Misterton.
Spurre (co. Cornwall).Arms of Spoure: — Gules, on a chevron Or, a rose of the first, and two spur-rowels (mullets) pierced Sable.CREST:..A demi antelope Ermine erased Gules maned and attired Or, holding in the mouth a broken spear Sable headed Argent point downwards.
== Sources ==
* http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50618.
* https://www.facebook.com/pages/Captain-Thomas-Spoure-Spurr-Lord-of-Trebartha/249046398489957
Events
| Birth | Abt 1478 | Misterton, Somerset, England | |||
| Marriage | 1508 | Digswell, Hertford, England - Anna Trebartha | |||
| Death | Aft 1509 | Trebartha, North Hill, Cornwall, England | |||
| Alt name | Spurr | ||||
| Reference No | 4181186 | ||||
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| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Anna Trebartha (1478 - 1503) |
| Child | Agnes Sporne (1510 - ) |