BODRIGAN 199 BODRIGAN Henry Bodrigan was sum. to Pari. 26 Oct. (1309) 3 Edw. II, by writ directed Henrico de Bodrigan^ but had been dead 9 months when the writ issued. () It seems clear that the man so sum. was the powerful feudal Baron of that name, of Bodrigan, Cornwall, s. and h. of Sir Henry B., who was living 128-3. He «z., before 26 Oct. 1288, Sibyl, widow of Piers le Power, sister and h. of Walter de Mandeville. She, who was then aged over 24, was living 18 July 1304, but d. in or before 1 308. He had livery of her lands and of those of his uncle, William B., in 1308. C') He <:/. in Jan. 1308/9. Writfor/«y./).w. 23 Jan. 2 Edw. II. None of his descendants were sum. to Pari. Sir Otes Bodrigan, s. and h., b. 6 Jan. 1289/90, at Bodrigan, and bap. there next day; joined in the rising against the Despensers in 132 1/2, but was pardoned. He m. Margaret. He d. aged 41, in 1331, before 10 Oct., when the writ for his Inq.p. m. is dated. His widow was living in 1340- Henry Bodrigan, s. and h., aged over 2 1 at his father's death. He w., before 1 3 Jan. 1328, Isabel, but <3'. j./i. 7?;., 3 weeks after his father, and before he had obtained seizin. His widow had dower 10 Mar. 133 1/2. William Bodrigan, br. and h., was b. 2 Sep. 131 1, at Trelawn, in Pelynt par., Cornwall, and bap. next day at Pelynt Church. He pr. his age in 1332. He d. s.p. BOHUNC) I. Sir John deBohun,('^) of Midhurst, Ford, and Rustington, Sus- sex, and of Ballymadden, co. Kildare, s. and h. of Sir Frank de B., of Midhurst, by his ist wife, Sibyl, da. of William (de Ferrers), Earl of Derby. He sue. his father 14 Sep. I273,(^) being then aged 26.(') On 20 Oct. following, he did homage and had livery of the lands in England both of his father and his mother,(^) and, 3 Mar. 1273/4, of his mother's (^) Ahhough the House of Lords has been very liberal in conferring peerages on gentlemen living about this time, who would have been much surprised to learn that they enjoyed that honour, yet the House has never yet held that a summons to a dead man created an hereditary Barony descendible to heirs general. V.G. C") Writ for Inq. p. ??!. on William Bodrigan 26 Mar. I Edw. II. (■=) This article has been kindly contributed by G. W. Watson. For a fuller account see Genealogist, N.S., vol. xxviii, p. i sqg. V.G. C^) The arms of Bohun of Midhurst were, Or, a cross Azure. (') Fine Rolh, I Edw. I, 7nm. 5, 3; 2 Edw. I, m. 29. Ch. Inq. p. m. (on Frank de Bohun), Edw. I, file 3, no. 14.
