Budockshed (''alias'' Budshead, Budeokshead, Budokeside etc.) is a historic estate in the parish of
St Budeaux
St Budeaux is an area and ward in the north west of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.
Original settlement
The name St Budeaux comes from Saint Budoc, the Bishop of Dol (Brittany). Around 480, Budoc is said to have founded a settleme ...
, near
Plymouth
Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymout ...
in
Devon
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, England.
History
It was for fourteen generations the seat of the de Budockshed family which took its name from the estate. It then passed to the Gorges family of
Wraxall, in Somerset, near
Bristol
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, and was sold by Sir Arthur Gorges to the Trevill family, wealthy merchants from Plymouth. The mansion house of the Trevills was demolished in the early 19th century, and only ruins survive, namely of a few outer walls and granite arches. Rogers wrote: "The venerable home of the Budocksheds has been destroyed, but two fine old barns - one of grand proportions - and a picturesque granite gateway, still remain to attest its aforetime importance". A monument to the Gorges family survives in St Budeaux Church.
de Budockshed

The arms of de Budockshed were: ''Sable, three fusils in fess between three buck's faces argent'', with crest: ''A moor's head affrontée
proper
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'', or ''A stag's head erased argent''. The early descent is given by Pole as follows:
*Alan de Budockshed, living at Budockshed in 1242.
*Nicholas de Budockshed, successor
*Alan de Budockshed, successor
*William de Budockshed, successor
*Nicholas de Budockshed, successor
*Thomas de Budockshed, who married a certain Elizabeth.
*Nicholas de Budockshed, son, who married Cecily Trevalrand, daughter and heiress of Henry Trevalrand (''alias'' Morton), by whom he had two sons, including Walter de Budockshed (whom Pole states to have been ancestor of the
Basset family
Members of the Basset family were amongst the early Norman settlers in the Kingdom of England. It is currently one of the few ancient Norman families who has survived through the centuries in the paternal line. They originated at Montreuil-au- ...
of Devonshire, which does not agree with the
Heraldic Visitation
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s of Devon,)
*William de Budockshed, son and heir, who married Jone Prous, daughter and heiress of Richard Prous of
Chagford
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in Devon. According to the
Heraldic Visitation
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s of Devon, his younger son was Walter de Budockshed, whose granddaughter Elizabeth de Budockshed married Sir John Basset of
Tehidy
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in Cornwall, of the
Basset family
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of Devonshire and Cornwall.
*Thomas de Budockshed, son, who married Jone Trencrek, daughter and heiress of John Trencrek of Trenhall.
*Robert de Budockshed, son, who married Anne Pomeroy, daughter of Sir Thomas Pomeroy (died 1446),
feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in Devon,
Sheriff of Devon
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in 1427.
*Thomas de Budockshed, son, who married Margaret Halwell, daughter of Sir John Halwell.
*Anthony de Budockshed, son, who married Elizabeth Strode, daughter of William Strode of Parham in Dorset, a junior branch of the Strode family of
Newnham in Devon.
*Roger Budockshed (died 1576/7), son, who married Frances Champernowne, third daughter of Sir Philip Champernowne (1479–1545) of Modbury,
Sheriff of Devon
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in 1527. Her elder sister
Joan Champernowne
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was the wife of Sir
Anthony Denny
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,
Groom of the Stool
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to King Henry VIII and her brother John Champernowne was married to Katherine Blount, a daughter of the courtier
William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy
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(c. 1478 – 1534),
KG, one of the wealthiest English nobles of his time. Roger Budockshed left surviving children one son, Phillip Budockshed, and three daughters.
*Phillip Budockshed (died 1570), son, who having married Margery Smith, daughter of Robert Smith of Tregonyke in Cornwall, died without children, leaving his three surviving sisters as co-heireses:
**Wenefride Budockshed, wife of Sir William Gorges (died 1538), whose share of her paternal inheritance was Budockshed.
**Elizabeth Budockshed, wife of John Amidas of Plymouth
**Agnes Budockshed, wife of Oliver Hill of Shilston
Gorges

*Sir William Gorges (died 1538), who married Winifred Budockshed, heiress of Budockshed. He was a Vice-Admiral, Deputy of Ireland, and a Gentleman Pensioner of Queen Elizabeth, a member of the Gorges family of
Wraxall in Somerset, which was in fact the Russell family, descended in the male line from the Russell family of
Dyrham
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Location and communications
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in Gloucestershire and
Kingston Russell
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in Dorset, but which adopted the surname Gorges in compliance with a maternal inheritance. The matter is explained in the important 14th century heraldic case of
Warbelton v Gorges
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, name = Warbelton v Gorges
, court = Court of Honour
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, caption = ''Lozengy or and azure'', the arms subject of the 1347 dispute between Warbelton & Gorges. As depicted on the Dering Roll ...
. By Winifred he had three sons:
**Tristram Gorges;
**Sir
Arthur Gorges
Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625), was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset.
Origins
He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d.1584) of Charlton, in the parish of Wraxall in Somerset, lord of the man ...
(c. 1569 – 1625);
**Sir Edward Gorges;
*Tristram Gorges, son and heir of his mother, from whom he inherited Budockshed. married Elizabeth Cole, daughter of Martin Cole of Cole-Anger, by whom he had four daughters (two of whom married Courtenays of the Landrake descent, and another Trelawney) and one son.
*William Gorges, son and heir, who died childless. He disinherited his sisters and bequeathed Budockshed to his uncle Sir Arthur Gorges.
*Sir
Arthur Gorges
Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625), was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset.
Origins
He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d.1584) of Charlton, in the parish of Wraxall in Somerset, lord of the man ...
(c. 1569 – 1625), uncle, of
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in
Middlesex
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, who sold the estate to the Trevill family of Plymouth, prosperous merchants.
Gorges monument, St Budeaux

In St Budeaux Church survives a beautiful monument to the Gorges family, a high
altar tomb
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situated in the ''Budockshed Aisle'', at the east end of the north aisle, with pillars at the angles, the cover-stone of slate finely carved, with a
reredos
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of exquisite Elizabethan
strapwork
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design. The slate slab and front and sides of the altar tomb displays coats of arms as follows:
1: ''Sable, three fusils in fess between three stags' faces argent''; Crest: ''A moor's head affrontée proper'' (Budockshed); 2: Quarterly, 1 and 4: ''Lozengy or and azure, a chevron gules, a crescent for difference'' (Gorges); 2 and 3: ''Argent, a bull passant sable within a bordure of the second bezantée'' (Cole); 3: Gorges, with crest: ''A greyhound's head couped at the shoulders and collared with crescent for difference''; 4: Gorges and Budockshed quarterly; 5: Budockshed, with crest. The original inscription, which was probably gilded on it, had disappeared, but the sculptured date, 1600, remains. The monument had become greatly dilapidated, but was restored in 1881, with the following inscription:
:"Roger Budockshead of Budockshead Esquire ob: 1576; Sir William Gorges Kn: ob: 1583; Dame Winifred Gorges, ob: 1599; Tristram Gorges of Budockshead Esq: ob: 1607; Mrs. Elizabeth Gorges ob: 1607; Restored 1881 chiefly at the expense of the Historical Society and Citizens of the state of Maine, U.S.A., in memory of Sir Ferdinando Gorges the first Proprietor and Governor of that Province. A.D. 1635, aided by some connections of the Gorges family in England".
Trevill
In the Budockshed aisle of St Budeaux Church is a monument to the Trevill family inscribed as follows:
:"Here Lyeth Bvried the Body of Richard Trevill, Esqr.,who died Avgvst the XXVI., 1648. Aged 73. Here Lyeth Bvried the Bodyes of Richard Trevill, Esqr., Nephew and Heire of the Aforesaid Richard, who died April the 4th, 1662. Aged 51. And also of Mary his Wife, who died the XXV. day of Febrvary, 1663. Aged 57. Here Lyeth Bvried the Body of Richard Trevill, Esq., Sonn of the said Richard and Mary, who died Janvary the XIX. 1665. Aged 19. This Monvment was Erected by William Trevill, of Bvtshead, Esq., in the year of ovr Lord 1667, to Perpetuate ye memorie of his Worshipfull Predecessors and Relations here buried.
The Trevill family is memorialised by a street name in Plymouth. In St Budeaux Church, below an elaborate monument to earlier members of the Trevill family, is a
ledger stone
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inscribed as follows:
[ Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, ''The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West'', Exeter, 1890, pp. 202–]
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::''"Also Here Lyeth The Body of William Trevill of Butshead, Esq., Father of Lethbridge Trevill, who departed this Life the 18th Day of May, 1680. Also Here Lyeth the Body of Lethbridge Trevill, Son of William Trevill of Butshead, Esq., who departed this Life 27th of February, 1699"''.
References
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;Sources
* William Pole (antiquary), Pole, Sir William (died 1635), ''Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon'', Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 334–5, "St Budocks"
* Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) ''The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620'', Exeter, 1895, p. 114, pedigree of "Budockshide of Budockshide"
* Risdon, Tristram (died 1640), ''Survey of Devon'', 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 209
* Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, ''The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West'', Exeter, 1890, pp. 202–
Historic estates in Devon