Richard Fortescue of Filleigh, North Devon was an English Member of Parliament and prominent land-owner and member of the Devonshire gentry, ancestor to the Earls Fortescue.
Mural monument erected in 1638 in Weare Giffard Church, the top tier showing Hugh Fortescue (1544–1600), son of Richard Fortescue, and his wife Mary Chichester.
Monumental brass depicting Richard Fortescue, Filleigh Church
Fortescue&Moreton Arms Simonsbath
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Simonsbath House is a historic house in Simonsbath on Exmoor in Somerset, England. The Grade II listed building is now the Simonsbath House Hotel, and outdoor activity centre. It lies in the valley of
Richard Fortescue (politician)
…arms borne by Joan Morton's kinsman, John Morton (c. 1420 – 15 September 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury 1486 to 1500. The heraldic overmantel now at Simonsbath House originally from Weare Giffard Hall, both former Fortescue residences, appears to confirm the blazon. A framed handwritten note, c. 1900, made by a…
Simonsbath House Exmoor
Setting of Simonsbath House in the valley of the River Barle, looking upstream
Lintel over fireplace of Old Kitchen, Simonsbath House, into which is carved the date "1654", taken to have been carved by James Boevey on completion of the building of the house
Fortescue family 17th-century heraldic overmantel from Wear Giffard Hall