Richard Champernowne

Sir Richard Champernowne (1344-1419) was an English landowner and administrator who held lands at Modbury, Dodbrooke, Bridford, and East Portlemouth in Devon and at Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire.

Origins Born on 29 June 1344 at the manor of Suddon in the parish of Wincanton and baptised in the parish church of Wincanton, he was the son of Sir Thomas Champernowne, a member of the Champernowne family who had been landowners in Devon for many generations, and his wife Eleanor Rohant, daughter and heiress of Sir Roger Rohant. and secondly Sir John Courtenay (died 1406), of Powderham. John Champernowne, who married Margaret Spriggy, daughter of John Spriggy.