English soldier and heir apparent to the earldom of Devon
Hugh Courtenay
(c.1345 – 20 February 1374) was an English soldier and
heir apparent
to the
earldom of Devon
.
Career
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Hugh Courtenay was born about 1345,
[
citation needed
]
the only child of Sir
Hugh Courtenay
(22 March 1327 – after Easter term 1348) and
Elizabeth de Vere
. He was the grandson of
Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon
(12 July 1303 ? 2 May 1377), and became heir apparent to the
earldom of Devon
after the death of his father in 1348. Through his grandmother,
Margaret de Bohun
(3 April 1311 – 16 December 1391), he was a descendant of King
Edward I
.
[1]
Courtenay took part in the intervention in the
Castilian civil war
by
Edward, the Black Prince
, and was knighted by the Prince at
Vitoria
in 1367,
[2]
together with
King Peter of Castile
, Courtenay's brother-in-law,
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
, and Courtenay's uncles, Peter Courtenay and
Philip Courtenay
.
[3]
He also distinguished himself at the
Battle of Najera
on 3 April 1367.
[4]
On 8 January 1371 he was summoned to Parliament by writ directed to
Hugoni de Courteney le fitz
, whereby he is held to have become
Baron Courtenay
.
[5]
Courtenay died without issue on 20 February 1374 during the lifetime of his grandfather,
Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon
, and the earldom descended to Courtenay's cousin,
Edward de Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon
.
[6]
Marriages
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Courtenay married firstly, Margaret de Bryan, daughter of
Guy de Bryan
and his first wife Joan, daughter of Sir John de Carew, and secondly, by
papal dispensation
dated 5 September 1363,
[7]
Maud Holland
, daughter of
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
, and his wife,
Joan
, the daughter of
Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent
. He had no issue by either wife.
[8]
In Easter Week 1380, Maud Holland, remarried, at
Windsor Castle
, to
Waleran, Count of Ligny and St Pol
(d. 19 April 1415). Maud died before 13 April 1392, and was buried at
Westminster Abbey
on 23 April.
[9]
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, pp. 324?5;
Richardson I 2011
, pp. 239?43, 540?3.
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, p. 325;
Richardson I 2011
, p. 542.
- ^
Beltz (1841).
Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
. pp.
54
.
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, p. 325;
Richardson I 2011
, p. 542.
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, p. 325;
Richardson I 2011
, p. 542.
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, p. 325;
Richardson I 2011
, pp. 542, 54646.
- ^
Richardson dates the dispensation to 29 August 1373.
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, p. 325;
Richardson I 2011
, p. 542.
- ^
Cokayne 1916
, p. 325;
Richardson I 2011
, pp. 542?3.
References
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edit
]
- Beltz, George Frederick (1841).
Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, from its Foundation to the Present Time
. London: W. Pickering.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1916).
The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs
. Vol. IV. London: St. Catherine Press.
- Richardson, Douglas (2011).
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham
. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
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