Marriage & Progeny
He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Gilbert, who was connected by descent with the eminent legal family of Fitzjames. By her he had the following progeny, one son and one daughter:
- Sir Henry Portman, knight (d.1590), married Jane Mitchell and produced issue:
- Sir John Portman, 1st Baronet (d.1611/12)
- Joan Portman, married pre-1613 Sir John Wyndham (1558-1645), of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset.
- Margaret Portman, married (1) Sir Gabriel Hawley; (2) Sir John Acland, Sheriff of Devon 1608, son of John Acland by Margaret Redcliffe.
- Mary, who married John Stowell.
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