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Maud Camoys

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  • Name Maud Camoys 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I6150  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father John de Camoys,   b. of Gressenhall, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 5 May 1362 to 1365 
    Mother Elizabeth le Latimer,   d. Aft 1383 
    Married Bef 1351 
    Family ID F2656  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Edward Courtenay,   b. Abt 1357,   d. 5 Dec 1419  (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Married Bef 31 May 1383 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2663  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “…Children of Edward de Courtenay, Knt., by Emeline Dauney:
      i. EDWARD COURTENAY, Knt., 11th Earl of Devon, 4th Lord Courtenay, Marshal of England, Lieutenant of the Duchy of Lancaster in Devon, 1386, Admiral of the West, 1383-5, Privy Councillor, son and heir, born about 1357 (of age in 1378, aged 40 and more in 1405). He proved his age and had livery of the lands of his mother and his grandfather the earl in 1378. He married before 31 May 1383 (date of fine) MAUD CAMOYS, daughter of John de Camoys, Knt., of Gressenhall, Norfolk, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William le Latimer, 3rd Lord Latimer [see CAMOYS 7 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Edward, Knt. [Lord Courtenay], Hugh, Knt. [12th Earl of Devon, 5th Lord Courtenay], and James, and one daughter, Elizabeth. He served as Captain of the English army in Picardy in 1380. He was one of the suite that conducted Anne of Bohemia from Gravelines to London in 1381 for her marriage to King Richard II. He was commander of 60 men-at-arms and 60 arches in Scotland in 1385. He presented to a portion of the church of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, 1394, and to the church of Misterton, Somerset, 1410 and 1413. He went on the French campaign in 1415. He was appointed to treat with the French ambassador in October and Nov. 1417. SIR EDWARD COURTENAY, 11th Earl of Devon, 4th Lord Courtenay, died 5 Dec. 1419, and was buried in Ford Abbey. He left a will dated 29 June 1419, proved 5 Dec. 1419. Rymer Fadera 7 (1728): 193-194 (Edward styled "cousin" by King Richard II of England). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 214-271 (sub Courtenay, Viscount Courtenay). Nicolas Rpt. of Procs. on the Claim to the Earldom of Devon (1832): 5-16. Westcote View of Devonshire in MDCXXX (1845): 570-573 (sub Courtenay). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 471-472 (Courtenay ped). Sussex Arch. Coll 3 (1850): 94 (identifies Elizabeth [recte Maud], wife of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon as daughter of Sir John de Camoys). Reliquary 17 (1876-7): 97-104. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 575-576 (sub Devonshire). Weaver Somerset Incumbents (1889): 401. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 243-250 (sub Courtenay). Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1 (1896): 193-194. Giffard & Bowett Regs. of Walter Gifford &Henry Bowett Bishops of Bath & Wells (Somerset Rec. Soc. 13) (1899): 15-16, 57. Procs. Bath Natural Hist. & Antiq. Field Club 9 (1901): 188-201. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 29-30 (Camoys ped.: "Elizebeth [Camoys] ux. Edw. Courtney Erie of Devon."). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 208, 220-221, 225-226, 425. Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 18 (1905): 369. C.C.R. 1369-1374 (1911): 407. C.P. 3 (1913): 467 (sub Courtenay); 4 (1916): 325-326 (sub Devon). Bubwith Reg. of Nicholas Bubwith Bishop of Bath & We& 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 29) (1914): 94, 168, 242, 295. C.C.R. 1377-1381 (1914): 149. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 107-118. Genealogist's Mag. 6 (1932-34): 606-626. Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele 2 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 178 (will of Edward Courtenay), 649 (biog. of Edward Courtenay). Cornwall Feet of Fines 2 (1950): 67-68. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Ancient Deeds - Ser. BB (List & Index Soc. 137) (1977): 41, 76. VCH Somerset 4 (1978): 4-38. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 35 (1984): 151-158 (incorrectly identifies Earl Edward's wife, Maud, as daughter of Sir Thomas Camoys), 189-193, 219-224. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 116-119. National Archives, SC 8/183/9116 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Edward Courtenay, Knt., by Maud Camoys:
      a. EDWARD COURTENAY, Knt., styled Lord Courtenay, Warden of the King's Forests in Devon and Cornwall, Keeper of the New Forest, 1415, Admiral of the Fleet, 1418, son and heir apparent, born say 1385 (adult by 1406). He married before 20 Nov. 1409 ELEANOR MORTIMER, daughter of Roger Mortimer, Knt., 4th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster, by Eleanor, daughter of Thomas de Holand, KG., 2nd Earl of Kent [see MORTIMER 14 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. His wife, Eleanor, was living Jan. 1413/4. He fought at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. SIR EDWARD COURTENAY died in or shortly after August 1418. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 224-226. Rymer Fadera 9 (1729): 8. Nicolas Controversy between Scrope & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 235-240. Hardy Rotuk Normannice in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1 (1835): 167, 170 (instances of Edward Courtenay styled "kinsman" by King Henry V of England in 1417). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 23-27. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 545. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 6'1620 (1895): 243-250 (sub Courtenay). Giffard & Bowett Regs. of Walter Gifford & Henry Bowett Bishops of Bath & Wells (Somerset Rec. Soc. 13) (1899): 63. Papal Regs.: Letters 6 (1904): 383. Wrottesley Peds, from the Plea Rolls (1905): 208. C.P.R 1408-1413 (1909): 144. C.P.R. 1413-1416 (1910): 128 (Edward Courtenay styled "king's kinsman"). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 281. C.P.R. 1416-1422 (1911): 10 (Edward Courtenay styled "king's kinsman"). C.P. 4 (1916): 326 (sub Devon). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 143-149.
      b. HUGH COURTENAY, K.B., 12th Earl of Devon, 5th Lord Courtenay, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir, born in 1389. He married ANNE TALBOT, daughter of Richard Talbot, Knt., 4th Lord Talbot, by Ankaret, daughter of John le Strange, Knt., 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere [see TALBOT 13 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Thomas, Knt. [13th Earl of Devon, 6th Lord Courtenay]. He was appointed captain of the fleet to guard the sea in 1418. He served as lieutenant of the king at sea in 1419. SIR HUGH DE COURTENAY, 12th Earl of Devon, 5th Lord Courtenay, died 16 June 1422. Administration on his estate was granted 4 July 1423. His widow, Anne, presented to the churches of Hemington, Somerset in 1423, and Misterton, Somerset in 1428. She married (2nd) by license dated 1432-3 JOHN BOTREAUX. Anne, Countess of Devon, died 16 Jan. 1440/1. Rymer Fædera 10 (1727): 97 (Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, styled "kinsman" by King Henry V in 1421). Rogers Antient Sepulchral Effigies (1877): 197-200 (Hugh Luttrell styled "dear and beloved cousin" by Sir Hugh Courtenay [12th Earl of Devon] in 1419). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 576 (sub Devonshire). Weaver Somerset Incumbents (1889): 99, 341, 344, 401. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 243-250 (sub Courtenay). Rpt. on MSS in Various Car. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 82. C.P. 3 (1913): 467 (sub Courtenay); 4 (1916): 326 (sub Devon). Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele 2, ( Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 649 (biog. of Hugh Courtenay). VCH Somerset 4 (1978): 4-38. Wasson Recs. of Early English Drama: Devon (1986): 476.
      Child of Hugh Courtenay, by Anne Talbot
      1) THOMAS COURTENAY, Knt., 13th Earl of Devon, 6th Lord Courtenay, married MARGARET BEAUFORT [see SOMERSET 11.vi].
      c. ELIZABETH COURTENAY, married (1st) JOHN HARINGTON, Knt., 4th Lord Harington [see HARINGTON 12.i]; (2nd) WILLIAM BONVILLE, KG., 1st Lord Bonville [see BONVILLE 11].”

      2. 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “JOHN DE CAMOYS, Knt., in right of his 1st wife, of Gressenhall, East Lexham, and Grimston, Norfolk, and Cowesby, Yorkshire, younger son by his father's 2nd marriage, born in or before 1320 aged 40 in 1360). In 1325-6 his parents settled the reversion of a messuage and lands in Woolavington, Sussex on him. He married (1st) before 1330 MARGARET FOLIOT, younger daughter of Richard Foliot, Knt., of Gressenhall and Weasenharn, Norfolk, by Joan, daughter and co-heiress of William de Brewes (or Breuse), Knt. [see MIDHURST 6 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1314 (aged 16 in 1330). They had one daughter, Katherine (wife of Hamon le Strange, Knt). In the period, 1343-5, he and his wife, Margaret, made a settlement of the manors of Gressenhall and East Lexham, Norfolk, together with the advowsons of Gressenhall and Stanfield, Norfolk. In 1344 he and his wife, Margaret, settled the manor and advowson of Cowesby, Yorkshire on themselves and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to Hugh de Hastings, Knt., and Margery his wife, and the heirs of Margery. He fought at the Battle of Crecy 26 August 1346, and was present at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. In 1347-8 he and his unnamed wife were residing at Hunstanton, Norfolk. He presented to the church of Gressenhall, Norfolk in 1348, 1349, and 1361. He married (2nd) before 1351 ELIZABETH LE LATIMER, daughter of William le Latimer, 3rd Lord Latimer, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt [see THWENG 10 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Thomas, K.G. [1st Lord Camoys] and possibly Hugh, Esq., and one daughter, Maud. He was summoned to a Council in 1359, by writ directed Johanni de Camoys. In 1361 John de Trailly, of Yelden, Bedfordshire owed him and three others a debt of £30. SIR JOHN DE CAMOYS was living 5 May 1362 (date of deed). His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1365-6 RALPH DE UFFORD. In 1382-3 Elizabeth Camoys, possibly his widow, was paid 50s. by Sir Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon out of his manor of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
      Rymer Fadera 6 (1727): 138. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 9 (1808): 510-513, 519. Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Index to the Add'l MSS in the British Museum (1849): 467. Sussex Arch. Coll. 3 (1850): 94. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisley 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Rye Short CaL Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 313. Yorkshire Arch. & Typog. Jour. 11(1891): 444-446. Wrottesley Crecy & Calais (1898): 31, 91, 142 (Queen's Remembrancer, 21 Edward III [1347]: "Sir John de Camoys, formerly of the retinue of Thomas [de Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick, and now of the retinue of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, for lands in cos. Norfolk, Hunts., and Sussex. Dated 1st July."), 173. Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115; n.s. 19 (1903): 102; n.s. 20 (1904): 36. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 203-204; 10 (1921): 502. Feet of Fines for York[shire] 1327-1347 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 42) (1910): 172. Salzman Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex (Sussex Rec. Soc. 23) (1916): 53, 59. Archaeolagia 69 (1920): 111-120. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 35 (1983): 156. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 270-271. Archer Rulers & Ruled in Late Medieval England (1995): 18. Coss Foundations of Gentry Life (2010): 43, 56-57, 71-72. National Archives, C 241/141/139 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Fam., Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 1504 191 x 6 - deed of grant dated 5 May 1362 from John Simond of Ayschelee (Nhts). to Sir Richard de Walltefar', Knt., Sir Richard de Causton, Knt., Sir John Camoys, Knt., and others regarding lands and tenements in Fyncham and Stradesete (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of John de Camoys, Knt., by Elizabeth le Latimer:
      i. THOMAS CAMOYS, Knt., 1st Lord Camoys [see next].
      ii. MAUD CAMOYS, married EDWARD COURTENAY, Knt., 11th Earl of Devon, 4th Lord Courtenay [see COURTENAY 8.i].”