COLUMBIERS or COLUMBERS 379 CO. Pembroke, and Blagdon, Somerset [Lord Martin], by his ist wife, Alianore, da. of Reynold fitz Piers, of Blaen Llyfni and Bwlch y Dinas, co. Brecon. He J. s.p., lo Feb. i34i/2,(^) and was bur. in Barnstaple Priory, when any Barony, that may be supposed to have been created by the writ of 13 14, became extinct.i^) His widow was aged 30 or 40 and more at her brother's death in 1326. She did tealty and had livery of her lands, 20 Mar. i34i/2.('=) Shed', s.p., 13 Dec. I342,('^) and was bur. in Barnstaple Priory. COLVILL or COLVILLE OF CULROSSO BARONY [S.] I. James Colvill or Colville, s. and h. of Sir James . ^ C, of Easter Wemyss, co. Fife (b. 1532, d. 1561), by JanetjC) da. ot Sir Robert Douglas, of Lochleven, was b. I. 1609. about 1 551; served in the Huguenot army under Henri, King of Navarre, for many years, though occasionally (f) " Philippus de Columbariis." Writs of diem cl. ext. 16 Feb. 1 6 Edw. in England and 3 in France. Inq., cos. Kent, Gloucester, Devon, Berks, Somerset, Wilts, 25 Feb. 5, 6, 8, 1 1, 14 Mar. 1341/2. "Philippus Columbar' diem suum clausit extremum x"° die Februarii anno supradicto." "Item dicunt quod Stephanus de Columbariis persona ecclesie de Shirewille est frater et propinquior heres predicti Philippi et etatis quinquaginta annorum." (Cli. /«y. />. w., Edw. Ill, file 6", no. 4: Exch. Inq. p. m.. Enrolments, no. 36). C") His heir-at-law was his br., Stephen de Columbiers, clerk (parson of Shirwell, Devon, 19 Feb. 1310/1 till his death shortly before 18 May 1348), whose h. was his only sister, Joan, wife of Geoffrey de Stawell, of Cothelstone, Somerset. But the Stawells inherited little more than the single manor of Shaw, Berks. For by divers fines, dated in the quinzaine of Easter 1 1 Edw. Ill, Philip de Columbiers entailed the manors of Nether Stowey, Puriton, Downend,Honibere, Stockland-Lovell, Woolavington, isfc., Somerset, and Postling, Kent, on himself and Alianore in tail male: rem. to James Daudeleye for life, rem. to Roger s. of James and the heirs of his body, rem. to Nicholas br. of Roger and his heirs {Firt of Fines, case 199, file 22, nos. 33, 47; case 287, file 39, no. 201). This James d'Audley was s. and h. of Joan, yr. sister and coh. of William Martin abovenamed: and therefore h. of his aunt, Alianore de Columbiers. See "Martin." As late as 1437, Sir Thomas Stawell, great-grandson of Joan abovenamed, was unsuccessfully suing tlie heirs of the Audleys for the afsd. manors in Somerset. {De Banco, Hilary, 9 Hen. V, m. 324, Trinity, 15 Hen. VI, ">• 339)- (') Close Roll, 16 Edw. Ill, pan I, mm. 35, 31, 15. {^) "Alianoraque fuit uxor Philippi de Columbariis." Writs of diem cl. ext. 23 Dec. 16 Edw. in England and 3 in France. Inq., same cos. as above, 30 Dec. 1342, 18, 10, 16, 7, 23 Jan. 1342/3. "... dicta Alianora obiit xiij die mensis Decembris anno supradicto." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 67, no. 5: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 9, no. 2). (') The best account of this family is in a privately printed work entitled The ancestry of Lord Colville of Culross, 1 887, by Georgiana M. Colville, who acknowledges her great obligations to George Burnett, Lyon King of Arms, and to W. A. Lindsay, of the College of Arms [London]. (') She was half-sister to the powerful Earl of Moray, the Regent [S.], who was son of her mother, Lady Margaret Erskine, by James V.
