Upcott, Cheriton Fitzpaine

Both were sub-infeudated to Alured Pincerna ("Alfred the Butler" or "Alfred the Cup-Bearer"), feudal baron of Chiselborough in Somerset,[2] whose main landholdings were in Cornwall and Somerset, a follower of the Count, and also held in Devon from the same overlord the manors of Pocheelle (Poughill, adjacent to today's Cheriton Fitzpaine) and also Little Torrington.

Following the rebellion of Robert, Count of Mortain, Alfred Pincerna and his descendants retained possession of Stockleigh and its sub-member.

The descent was as follows:[7] In 1200 the Pincerna family surrendered Upcott to the great magnate William Brewer (died 1226).

Radford however found himself in the situation of acting as lawyer to William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville, of Shute, the chief enemy of his overlord Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon, by whose orders he was murdered at home at Upcott, which crime was one of the most notorious in 15th century England and in the entire history of Devon.

Following the murder the Bonville–Courtenay feud was finally ended at the Battle of Clyst Heath (1455) at which Bonville was defeated by Courtenay's private army.

However, by a marriage settlement dated 1509, Mary Prowse brought to her husband, John Gye, lands called "Upcott" in Cheriton Fitzpaine near Poughill.

Two stone sculpted angels holding heraldic escutcheons survive above the capitals of the arcade separating the Upcott Chapel from the chancel of St Matthew's Church.

He married twice: The ledger stone (across the middle of which now stands the 1926 wooden chancel screen) of James Courtenay (d.1592) "The Younger" survives in the Upcott Chapel, St Matthew's Church, the most ancient stone in the church,[26] inscribed in Gothic script as follows: John I Moore (1582-1641)[27] of Moore "near Tavistock",[14] in Devon (possibly More-Malherbe in the parish of Broadwoodwidger,[28] 10 miles north-west of Tavistock, where many of the Moore family were buried[29]), married Gertrude Courtenay (1592-1666),[30] daughter and heiress of the last James Courtenay of Upcott.

It displays the canting arms of Moore (Argent, a chevron between three moorcocks sable)[32] quartering Courtenay, and is inscribed as follows: John II Moore (1636-1700), son and heir, who laid down two similar ledger stones in St Matthew's Church, Cheriton Fitzpaine, one to his mother Gertrude Courtenay (1592-1666) and another to his first wife who died 5 years later in 1671.