COURTENAY FAMILY
I. DEVON LINE
Joscelin De COURTENAY (Sire de Courtenay)
Born: ABT 1034, Courtenay, Loiret, France
Died: ABT 1075
Father: Anton De COURTENAY (Sire of Courtenay) (b. ABT 985 - d. AFT 1030)
Mother: ¿?
Married 1: Hildegarde De GATINAIS ABT 1060
Children:
Married 2: Isabel De MONTLHERY AFT 1065
Children:
2. Miles (Milo) De COURTENAY (Sire of Courtenay)
Born: ABT 1062, probably Courtenay, Loiret, France
Father: Joscelin De COURTENAY (Sire de Courtenay)
Mother: Hildegarde De GATINAIS
Married: Geoffrey De JOINVILLE (C. Joigny) ABT 1080, probably Courtenay, Loiret, France
Children:
1. Roger De JOINVILLE
Miles (Milo) De COURTENAY (Sire of Courtenay)
Born: ABT 1069, Courtenay, Loiret, France
Died: AFT 1127
Father: Joscelin De COURTENAY (Sire de Courtenay)
Mother: Isabel DE MONTLHERY
Married: Ermenegarde De NEVERS (b. ABT 1073) ABT 1095
Children:
1. Renaud (Reinald) De COURTENAY (Lord of Courtenay)
Renaud (Reinald) De COURTENAY (Lord of Courtenay)
Born: ABT 1100, Courtenay, Loiret, France
Died: 27 Sep 1194
Father: Miles (Milo) De COURTENAY (Sire of Courtenay)
Mother: Ermenegarde De NEVERS (b. ABT 1073)
Married: Hawise D'EYNCOURT (d. ABT 1219)
Children:
1. Egeline DE COURTENAY
Married: Hawise DU DONJON (ABT 1113 - AFT 1158) ABT 1111
Children:
Born: ABT 1127
Died: AFT 14 Sep 1205
Father: Renaud (Reinald) De COURTENAY (Lord of Courtenay)
Mother: Hawise DU DONJON
Married: Peter I De COURTENAY (Prince of France) AFT 1150
Children:
1. Pierre De COURTENAY (Emp. Constantinople)
2. Alice De COURTENAY
Born: ABT 1125, Courtenay, Loiret, France
Died: 27 Sep 1194
Father: Renaud (Reinald) De COURTENAY (Lord of Courtenay)
Mother: Hawise DU DONJON
Married: Hawise De COURCY (Lady of Okehampton) (ABT 1135 - 31 Jul 1209)
Children:
1. Henry De COURTENAY
2. Egelina De COURTENAY
3. Renaud (Reginald) De COURTENAY
4. Robert De COURTENAY (1° B. Okehampton)
Robert De COURTENAY (1° B. Okehampton)
Born: ABT 1160, Okehampton, Devonshire, England
Died: 26 Jul 1242, Iwerne, Dorset, England
Father: Reanud De COURTENAY
Mother: Hawise De COURCY (Lady of Okehampton)
Married: Mary De VERNON ABT 1213
Children:
1. John COURTENAY (2° B. Okehampton)
Born: ABT 1222, Okehampton, Devon, England
Father: Robert De COURTENAY (1° B. Okehampton)
Mother: Mary De VERNON
Married 1: John De NEVILLE
Children: 2. John De NEVILLE3. Theobald De NEVILLE of Alphington (b. ABT 1241)
Married 2: John De GATESDEN
Children:
4. Margaret De GATESDEN (m. John De Camoys)
Born: ABT 1224, Okehampton, Devon, England
Father: Robert De COURTENAY (1° B. Okehampton)
Mother: Mary De VERNON
Married: Phillippe De COLUMBERS
Children:
1. Dau. De COLUMBERS
John COURTENAY (2° B. Okehampton)
Born: ABT 1218, Okehampton, Devon, England
Died: 3 May 1274, Okehampton, Devon, England
Father: Robert De COURTENAY (1° B. Okehampton)
Mother: Mary De VERNON
Married: Isabel De VERE
Children:
Born: 25 Mar 1249, Oakhampton, Devon, England
Died: 28 Feb 1290/91, Cullicomb, Devon, England
Buried: Cowick, Devonshire, England
Father: John COURTENAY (2° B. Okehampton)
Mother: Isabel De VERE
Married: Eleanor DESPENCER (BET 1245/1260-30 Sep 1328) BEF 1273
Children:
2. Phillip COURTENAY
3. Thomas COURTENAY
4. Avelina (Ada)COURTENAY
5. John COURTENAY
6. Robert COURTENAY
7. Alice COURTENAY
8. Hugh COURTENAY (1° E. Devon)
9. Margaret COURTENAY
10. Isabel COURTENAY
Born: ABT 1283
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (Sir)
Mother: Eleanor DESPENCER
Married 1: John St. JOHN BEF 1308
Children:
2. William St. JOHN (b. 14 Jun 1309)
Married 2: Reynold PAVELEY 22 Jun 1333
Married 3: Robert DE SCALES (B. Scales) (ABT 1279 - 20 Mar 1324/25) 10 Oct 1335
Born: ABT 1259/73
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (Sir)
Mother: Eleanor DESPENCER
Married: Henry De GREY (1° B. Grey of Codnor)
Children:
1. Richard De GREY (2° B. Grey of Codnor)
2. Nicholas De GREY (Sir Knight)
3. Lucy De GREY
5. Thomas De GREY
6. Henry De GREY
Born: ABT 1287
Died: 10 Oct 1335
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (Sir)
Mother: Eleanor DESPENCER
Born: 14 Sep 1273
Died: 23 Dec 1340
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (Sir)
Mother: Eleanor DESPENCER
Married 1: Elizabeth PLANTAGENET
Married 2: Agnes St. JOHN 1292
Children:
1. Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
3. Eleanor COURTENAY
6. Elizabeth COURTENAY (b. ABT 1313)
Born: ABT 1309, Wotton, Devonshire, England
Died: BEF 1330
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (1° E. Devon)
Mother: Agnes St. JOHN
Married: John De GREY (3° B. Grey of Codnor) BEF 4 Sep 1325, Exeter, Devon, England
Born: ABT 1300
Died: ABT 1349
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (1° E. Devon)
Mother: Agnes St. JOHN
Born: ABT 1309
Died: ABT 1334
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (1° E. Devon)
Mother: Agnes St. JOHN
Married: Elizabeth (Joan) ?
Born: BET 1311/22
Died: BET 1356/62
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (1° E. Devon)
Mother: Agnes St. JOHN
Married: Muriel De MOELS (ABT 1322 - BEF 1362)
Children:
4. John COURTENAY (b. 1357)
Born: 1322/1340, Woodhuish, Devonshire, England
Died: BEF 12 Aug 1369
Buried: Hartland Abbey, Devonshire, England
Father: Thomas COURTENAY
Mother: Muriel De MOELS
Married: John DYNHAM (b. ABT 1319 - d. 7 Jan 1382/83) ABT 1360, Steeple, Ashton, Oxon, England
Children:
1. John DYNHAM (Sir) (b. ABT 1359 - d. 25 Dec 1428) (m.1 Ellen ? - m.2 Maud Maltravers - m.3 Phillippa Lovell)
2. Muriel DYNHAM (b. ABT 1362 - d. 1456) (m. Edward Hastings, 8° B. Hastings)
Born: ABT 1342, Exeter, Devonshire, England
Died: 14 Aug 1422
Father: Thomas COURTENAY
Mother: Muriel De MOELS
Married: Thomas PEVERELL (Sir) (b. ABT 1340 - d. BEF 1422) ABT 1381
Children:
1. Eleanor PEVERELL (b. ABT 1380)
2. Catherine PEVERELL (b. ABT 1382 - d. AFT 14 Jun 1426) (m. Walter Hungerford, 1º B. Hungerford of Farleigh)
Born: ABT 1338
Died: ABT 1369, dsp
Father: Thomas COURTENAY
Mother: Muriel De MOELS
Born: 12 Jul 1303, Okehampton, Devon, England
Died: 2 May 1377, Exeter, Devon, England
Buried: Exeter Cathedral, Devonshire, England
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (1° E. Devon)
Mother: Agnes St. JOHN
Married: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon) 11 Aug 1325
Children:
2. Edward COURTENAY of Godlington
4. Thomas COURTENAY (Sir Knight)
5. Phillip COURTENAY of Powderham (Sir)
10. Matilda COURTENAY
11. Eleanor COURTENAY
12. Guinora COURTENAY (b. ABT 1348)
13. Isabel COURTENAY
14. Phillipa COURTENAY
15. William COURTENAY (Archbishop of Canterbury)
16. John COURTENAY
18. Humphrey COURTENAY (Sir) (b. ABT 1355)
19. Anne COURTENAY
William COURTENAY (Archbishop of Canterbury)
Born: 1342, Exeter, Devon, England
Died: 31 Jul 1396, Maidstone, Kent, England
Notes: Bishop of Hereford; Bishop of London; Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born in Exeter about 1342, and studied law at Stapledon Hall, Oxford. He was elected Chancellor of the University, and held Prebends at Exeter, Wells, and York. At the age of twenty-eight he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford, and six years later became Bishop of London. He took part with William of Wykeham in defending the rights of the clergy: on the one hand, against the attacks made upon them by John of Gaunt, and on the other, against the exactions of the Pope. In 1381 he was translated to Canterbury, and exerted himself for the suppression of Lollardism. Wyclif's opinions were formally condemned at a Council held in his presence at Blackfriars in 1382. Courtenay died in 1396 at Maidstone, and is thought by some to have been buried there, but there is more reason to believe that his body was transferred to Canterbury where his eggigial monument can still be seen today.
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Born: 22 Mar 1326/27, Exeter, England
Died: BEF 2 Sep 1349
Buried: Forde Abbey, Dorsetshire, England
Notes: Knight of the Garter. One of the Founders of the Order. Served with the King in France.
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Married: Elizabeth De VERE BEF Sep 1341
Children:
1. Hugh COURTENAY (B. Courtenay)
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth De VERE
Married: Maud HOLLAND (b. ABT 1359 - d. 8 Jan 1390/91) BEF 1365
Born: ABT 1326
Died: 2 Aug 1385
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Married: John COBHAM (B. Cobham)
Children:
1. Joan COBHAM (m. Sir John De La Pole)
Born: ABT 1323/33, Exeter, Devon, England
Died: 7 Aug 1395
Buried: Unknown Benedictine Church of St. Nicholas, Exeter, Devonshire, England
Notes: On the occasion of her marriage to Andrew Luttrell, in the summer of 1359, Edward III gave them an annuity of 200£ for their lives, in aid of the maintenance of their social position. In 1361, Sir Andrew Luttrell and his wife went on pilgrimage to the famous shrine of Santiago de Compostella, with a retinue. of twenty-four men and women and as many horses. The lady was for some time in the service of her cousins, Edward 'the Black Prince' and the 'Fair Maid of Kent,' his wife. The annuity of 200£ was confirmed by Richard II in 1378, and renewed in favour of Lady Luttrell in 1381, her husband having died in the interval. In the meanwhile, Lady Luttrell had, with part of her savings bought the reversion of the manors of Feltwell in Norfolk, and Moulton, Debenham and Waldingfield in Suffolk. A charter of free warren therein was issued in her favour 1373. She also acquired the right of appointing two of the canons of the priory of Flitcham. The most important pecuniary transaction of this Lady Luttrell was, however, her purchase of the reversion of the castle of Dunster, the manors of Kilton, Minehead and Carhampton and the hundred of Carhampton, of five thousand marks. As she predeceased the vendor, she never obtained actual possession of this valuable property. Dying at Bermondsey on the 7th of August 1395, she was buried; by her own desire, in the Benedictine Church of St. Nicholas at Exeter. Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter, in August of that year, ordered public prayers to be offered throughout his diocese for the souls of Margaret Cobham and Elizabeth Luttrell, sisters of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and, by way of encouragement, promised an indulgence of forty days to the faithful who should pray for them.
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Married 1: John De VERE (Sir) Jul 1341
Married 2: Andrew LUTTRELL (Sir Knight) Jul 1359, Dunster, Somerset, England
Children:
4. Elizabeth LUTTRELL
Born: BET 1335/37, Exeter, England
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Married 1: William De HARRINGTON
Married 2: Thomas ENGAINE
Married 3: William MOHUN ABT 1353
Born: ABT 1337, Exeter, England
Buried: Fryars Church, Augustine, Middlesex, England
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Married: John CHARLTON (b. 1337) ABT 1357
Born: ABT 1331
Died: ABT 1381
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Born: BET 1342/49
Died: 2 Feb 1404/05
Notes: Knight of the Garter. Knighted by the Prince of Wales at Vittoria before the battle of Najara. Standard-bearer to Edward III, Captain of Calais. Governor of Windsor Castle.
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Edward COURTENAY of Godlington
Born: ABT 1329/34, probably Devonshire, England
Died: 1372
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (2° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret De BOHUN (C. Devon)
Married: Emeline DAUNEY (dau. of Sir John Dauney) BET 1347-1356 /ABT 1351, England
Children
1. Edward COURTENAY (3° E. Devon)
2. Hugh COURTENAY of Haccombe (Sir)
Edward COURTENAY (3° E. Devon)
Died: 5 Dec 1419
Father: Edward COURTENAY of Godlington
Mother: Emeline DAUNEY
Married: Matilda CAMOYS (dau. of Thomas, Lord Camoys)
Children
1. Hugh COURTENAY (4° E. Devon)
2. Henry COURTENAY (Sir)
4. Elizabeth COURTENAY (B. Harrington of Aldingham)
Father: Edward COURTENAY (3° E. Devon)
Mother: Matilda CAMOYS
Married: Eleanor MORTIMER (b. 1395-d. 1418) (dau. of Roger Mortimer 4° E. March and Eleanor Holland) 1408
Elizabeth COURTENAY (B. Harrington of Aldingham)
Born: 1381
Father: Edward COURTENAY (3° E. Devon)
Mother: Matilda CAMOYS
Married 1: John HARRINGTON (4° B. Harrington of Aldingham) ABT 1411
Children
Married 2: William BONVILLE of Shute (Sir Knight Sheriff of Devon) (b. 31 Aug 1393 - d. 18 Feb 1460/61)(w. of Margaret Grey) 9 Oct 1427
Born: ABT 1389
Died: 16 Jun 1422
Father: Edward COURTENAY (3° E. Devon)
Mother: Matilda CAMOYS
Married: Anne TALBOT (C. Devon)
Children:
1. John COURTENAY
2. Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Born: 1416
Died: 3 Feb 1458
Father: Hugh COURTENAY (4° E. Devon)
Mother: Anne TALBOT (C. Devon)
Married: Margaret BEAUFORT (C. Devon)
Children:
1. Thomas COURTENAY (6° E. Devon)
3. Henry COURTENAY (7° E. Devon)
4. John COURTENAY (8° E. Devon)
5. Eleanor COURTENAY
7. Anne COURTENAY
8. Matilda COURTENAY
Thomas COURTENAY (6° E. Devon)
Born: 1432
Died: 4 Nov 1461, York, Beheaded
Father: Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret BEAUFORT (C. Devon)
Born: ABT 1434, Okehampton, Devon, England
Died: BEF 1528
Father: Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret BEAUFORT (C. Devon)
Married 1: Robert CLIFFORD 1462, Skelton, Yorkshire, England
Children:
1. Charles CLIFFORD (Capt. of La Batiste)
Married 2: William KNYVETT (Sir Knight) AFT 1485
Died: ABT 1466, Executed
Father: Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret BEAUFORT (C. Devon)
Born: ABT 1435
Died: ABT 1471, Executed
Father: Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret BEAUFORT (C. Devon)
Father: Thomas COURTENAY (5° E. Devon)
Mother: Margaret BEAUFORT (C. Devon)
Married: Hugh CONWAY (Sir)
Hugh COURTENAY of Haccombe (Sir)
Born: BET 1358/60, probably Haccombe, Devonshire, England
Died: 15 Mar 1424/25
Father: Edward COURTENAY of Godlington
Mother: Emeline DAUNEY
Married 1: Elizabeth COGAN
Married 2: Phillipa ARCHDEKNE (dau. of Sir Warren Archdekne of Haccombe)
Children:
Married 3: Matilda BEAUMONT (d. 3 Jul 1467) (dau. of Sir John Beaumont of Sherwell) ABT 1372
Children:
3. Edward COURTENAY (Sir)
4. Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Haccombe (Sir)
Mother: Phillipa ARCHDEKNE
Married 1: Nicholas CAREW (B. Carew)
Children:
1. Thomas CAREW of Mohun's Ottery
2. Nicholas CAREW of Haccombe (Sir)
4. Hugh CAREW
5. William CAREW of Bury St. Edmonds (Sir)
7. Jane CAREW
8. Florence CAREW
Married 2: Robert De VERE (Sir)
Children:
9. John De VERE
10. Jane De VERE
Born: ABT 1381
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Haccombe (Sir)
Mother: Matilda BEAUMONT
Married: Theobald GRENVILLE (Sir)
Children
1. William GRENVILLE of Stowe (Sir)
Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Died: Killed At Tewkesbury
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Haccombe (Sir)
Mother: Matilda BEAUMONT
Married: Margaret CARMINOW (d. BEF 14 Nov 1412) (dau. of Thomas Carminow)
Children:
1. Edward COURTENAY (9° E. Devon)
Born: ABT 1452
Died: BEF 3 Jul 1509
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Mother: Margaret CARMINOW
Married: Joan ? ABT 1481
Born: ABT 1446
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Mother: Margaret CARMINOW
Married: John TRELAWNY
Born: ABT 1447
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Mother: Margaret CARMINOW
Married: John TRETHERFF (Sir)
Children:
1. Jane TRETHURFFE (m. John Tregarthen)
2. Thomas TRETHERFF (m. Maud Trevisa)
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Mother: Margaret CARMINOW
Married: William MOHUN of Hall (son of William Mohun of Hall and Jane Cavell)
Children:
1. John MOHUN of Hall
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Mother: Margaret CARMINOW
Married: John ARUNDELL of Tolverne (Sir)
Edward COURTENAY (9° E. Devon)
Died: BEF 27 May 1509
Notes: Knight of the Garter. MP. A loyalist of the House of Tudor, he fought alongside Henry VII at Bosworth and had been one of his original companions in France. There he went to pay homage to the future King of the Lancastrian affinity to which he adhered. Edward was particularly opposed to Richard III, and as such sought the patronage of Margaret Beaufort and her secret alliance with the Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville on the murder of the princes. Courtenay acted a courier over the Channel in the dark days of 1480's. He also met the Marquess of Dorset, the alienated Yorkist, whose disaffected support left Richard dangerously exposed on the flank of his kingdom. He defended Exeter against Perkin Warbeck in 1497. The earldom was forfeited at his death by his son’s attainder for conspiracy with De La Pole, formerly Earls of Suffolk, whose continental dabblings with Cardinal Pole presented a dynastic threat to the Tudor inheritance, as the last of the Yorkists. The earldom was restored in 1512 to his son, William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon through the marriage of the daughter, Elizabeth of Sir Phillip Courtenay of Powderham Castle. The extinction of the ancient medieval line continued in the cadet line of the cousinage to this day. Edward died in May 1509, and it might be only hours after his will was made on 27 May 1509. It was proved at Lambeth on 15 Jul 1509.
Father: Hugh COURTENAY of Boconnoc (Sir)
Mother: Margaret CARMINOW
Married: Elizabeth COURTENAY
Children:
1. William COURTENAY (10° E. Devon)
William COURTENAY (10° E. Devon)
Born: 1475
Died: 9 Jun 1511
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Edward COURTENAY (9° E. Devon)
Mother: Elizabeth COURTENAY
Married: Catherine PLANTAGENET (C. Devon) BEF Oct 1495
Children:
2. Henry COURTENAY (1° M. Exeter)
Born: ABT 1499
Died: AFT 2 Jul 1520/ 15 Apr 1526
Notes: Margaret was the daughter of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, and the Princess Catherine, and tradition says she died at Holcombe, choked by a fishbone, A.D. 1512. Says on her tombe. But Margaret Courtenay is mentioned in the will of her grandfather, which was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the eleventh of Jul 1509, and this lady is also mentioned by her mother in a document dated 1511, and signed "Kath. Devonshire", in which she states that Margaret, her daughter, is now above thirteen years of age, and that she proposes "to procure for her a fitting marriage". This was found for her, in the person of Henry, Lord Herbert, eldest son of Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester; and she was living at Richmond, in attendance on the infant Princess Mary, on the second of Jul, 1520. She died before her husband, who married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne. So we can only conclude that the inscription at Colyton is a mendacious inscription, and was invented to support the tradition about "little chokebone", as the natives call her, and which, like many other traditions about the Courtenays, can have had no foundation in fact.
Father: William COURTENAY (10° E. Devon)
Mother: Catherine PLANTAGENET (C. Devon)
Married: Henry SOMERSET (2° E. Somerset) 15 Jun 1514/Jun 1520
Born: ABT 1497
Died: 1502
Father: William COURTENAY (10° E. Devon)
Mother: Catherine PLANTAGENET (C. Devon)
Henry COURTENAY (1° M. Exeter)
Born: ABT 1497/1505
Acceded: 18 Jun 1525
Died: 9 Jan 1539, beheaded
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: William COURTENAY (10° E. Devon)
Mother: Catherine PLANTAGENET (C. Devon)
Married 1: Elizabeth GREY (5° B. Lisle) AFT 11 Jun 1515
Married 2: Gertrude BLOUNT (M. Exeter)
Children:
1. Edward COURTENAY (12° E. Devon)
Edward COURTENAY (12° E. Devon)
Born: ABT 1527/8
Acceded: 3 Sep 1553
Died: 18 Sep 1556, Padua, Italy
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Henry COURTENAY (1° M. Exeter)
Mother: Gertrude BLOUNT (M. Exeter)
Born: ABT 1255
Married: Phillip D'AUBENEY (Sir Knight) ABT 1275
William COURTENAY
Born: ABT 1462
Married: Catherine ARUNDELL ABT 1490, Lanherne, Cornwall, England
Robert De COURTENAY
Married: Alix FITZDUNCAN