Manor of Bratton Fleming

1145), whose son, Archembald, went to Ireland with Henry II in 1171 and participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the Kingdom of Mide.

Baldwin's son, Richard, married Mary/Maria Martin, daughter of Sir Nicholas FitzMartin the Younger (died 1260), jure uxoris feudal baron of Barnstaple.

was a cadet branch of the ancient Breton house of de Leon, a member of which accompanied Prince John (later King John) to Ireland in 1185 and was granted extensive lands in Counties Longford and Westmeath[2] called 'Dillon's Country'.

The Dillons of Bratton Fleming (and of Wroughton and Hart, in Heanton Punchardon[3]) were a cadet branch of this Irish family[4] and were seated at Chymwell (Chumhill).

The descent was as follows: In 1599 Robert Chichester (1578–1627) of Raleigh purchased from his aunt's husband, Robert Dillon Esq.,[9] of Chumhill for £9,900 the manors of "Bratton Flemyng, Benton, and Haxton, the capital mansion, barton and demesnes of Chumhill, Haxton, Chelfham, and Shirrledon and all the lands called Chumhill, Benton, Haxton, Chelfham, and Shirrldon, in the parishes of Bratton Flemyng, Loxhore, Stoke Rivers, and Kentisbury, and £5 of rent (called Flemyng's rent) out of lands in South Molton and elsewhere in Devon".

Arms of Chichester: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair , the inverse of the arms of Fleming. These were originally the arms of de Raleigh of Raleigh, Pilton , ancient neighbours of the Fleming family in North Devon
Arms of Fanshawe of Bratton Fleming and of Fanshawe Gate, Derbyshire, granted in 1490 to John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate: Or, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys sable [ 12 ]