Wrey baronets

The Wrey Baronetcy, of Trebitch (modern: Trebeigh Manor, St Ive, 4 miles NE of Liskeard[4]) in the Duchy of Cornwall, is a title in the Baronetage of England.

Trebeigh, St Ive, Cornwall was a manor listed in Domesday Book as held by the Earl of Mortain, the largest landholder in that county.

It was given in 1150 by King Stephen to the Knights Templar, and thenceforth formed, together with that order's other nearby manor of Temple on Bodmin Moor, the Preceptory of Trebeigh, which also held the advowson of the parish church of St Ive.

[5] Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor of Trebeigh was granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1573 to Henry Wilbye and George Blyke, from whom it was acquired by John Wrey,[6] who made it his family's chief seat until his descendants inherited Tawstock in Devon from the Bourchiers in 1654.

[7] The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Harry David Bourchier Wrey (born 1984), eldest son of the 15th Baronet.

Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gules [ 1 ]
Arms of Wrey Baronets, with quarterings and crests, as seen on mural monument in Tawstock Church, Devon, to Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet: Quarterly : 1st: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gules (Wrey); [ 2 ] 2nd: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water-bougets sable ( Bourchier ); 3rd: Within a bordure argent the Royal Arms of England ( Plantagenet ); 4th: Azure, a bend argent cotised or between six lions rampant or ( de Bohun ). The last two quarterings refer to the wife of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (d.1420), namely Anne of Gloucester , Countess of Stafford , the daughter of the Plantagenet prince, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester by his wife Eleanor de Bohun elder daughter and coheiress of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373), Earl of Essex and Northampton. Over-all is the Red Hand of Ulster . Above the shield in the centre is a Bourchier knot or . Above the dexter is the crest of Wrey: A cubit arm embowed holding a pole-axe argent helved gules , on the sinister side is the crest of Bourchier: A man's head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules [ 3 ] On a scroll underneath the motto of Bourchier: Le Bon Temps Viendra ("The right time will come")
Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (c. 1715–1784), 1744 portrait by George Knapton (1698–1778) for the Society of Dilettanti . Getty Center , Brentwood, Los Angeles