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Edward Courtenay

Male Abt 1357 - 1419  (~ 62 years)


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  • Name Edward Courtenay 
    Birth Abt 1357 
    Gender Male 
    Death 5 Dec 1419 
    Burial Ford Abbey, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6151  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Maud Camoys 
    Marriage Bef 31 May 1383 
    Family ID F2663  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 

  • 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. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “THOMAS CAMOYS, K.G., of Trotton, Barcombe, Broadwater, and Elsted, Sussex, Honydon or Camoys (in Eaton Socon), Bedfordshire, Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, Bekerton, Norfolk, Tansor, Northamptonshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born in or before 1351 (of age in 1372). He married (1st) ELIZABETH LOUCHES, daughter and heiress of William Louches, of Great Milton and Chislehampton, Oxfordshire. They had one son, Richard, Knt., and one daughter, Alice. He was heir in 1372 to his uncle, Thomas Camoys, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Trotton, Barcombe, Broadwater, and Elsted, Sussex, Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, Bekerton, Norfolk, Tansor, Northamptonshire, etc. In 1375 he was granted a weekly market at Broadwater, Sussex. The same year his maternal uncle, William Latimer, K.G., 4th Lord Latimer was granted various tenements and houses in Calais by the king formerly held by John Dayre, with remainder in male tail to Thomas Camoys. In 1378 he disputed the advowson of Broadwater, Sussex with Adam de Hartingdon. He was a legatee in the 1381 will of his cousin, William le Latimer, K.G., 4th Lord Latimer, by which he inherited the manor of Wotton, Surrey. He presented to the church of Wotton, Surrey, 1382, 1383, and 1392, and Lasham, Hampshire, 1392. He was one of the liveried personnel of his brother-in-law, Edward Courtenay, Kim, 11th Earl of Devon, in 1384-5. He saw military service in Castile under John of Gaunt. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 August 1383 to 26 Feb. 1420/1, by writs directed Thome Camoys ch'r, whereby he is held to have become Lord Camoys. He was excluded from court in Jan. 1388 by order of the Lords Appellant. In 1389 he made a settlement of the manor of Honydon or Camoy's (in Eaton Socon), Bedfordshire. In 1399 he was granted the bailiwick of the forestership of Alice Holt and Wolmer, Hampshire by the king "as Ralph de Camoys his grandfather had in the time of Edward III." The same year he and his son, Richard, were jointly granted custody of the castle and town of Porchester, Hampshire. In 1400 he manned a ship for service against the Scotch and the French. In 1405-6 he unsuccessfully claimed the manor of Eling, Hampshire against the warden of Winchester College. He married (2nd) after 3 June 1406 ELIZABETH MORTIMIER, widow of Henry "Hotspur" Percy, Knt., styled le Fitz, K.G., K.B., Justice of Chester, North Wales, and Flintshire, Warden of the East Marches, Captain of Berwick on Tweed [see PERCY 12 for issue of that marriage], and daughter of Edmund de Mortimer, Knt., Earl of March and Ulster, by Philippe, daughter and heiress of Lionel of Antwerp, K.G., Duke of Clarence, 5th Earl of Ulster (younger son of King Edward III of England) [see MORTIMER 13 for her ancestry]. She was born at Usk, Monmouthshire 12 (or 13) Feb. 1370/1, and baptized 16 Feb. 1370/1. She was a legatee in the 1380 will of her father. They had one son, Roger, Knt. [Lord Camoys]. In 1406 he signed the deed of King Henry IV regulating the succession to the crown. In 1408 William Mymecan sued Thomas Camoys, Knt, regarding 40s. rents with appurtenances in Wheatley, Oxfordshire. Thomas was heavily involved in the military affairs of both Kings Henry IV and Henry V. He commanded the left wing of the English army at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. He presented to the church of Broadwater, Sussex in 1416. His wife, Elizabeth, died 20 April 1417. SIR THOMAS CAMOYS, Lord Camoys, died 28 March 1421. He and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, were buried at Trotton, Sussex.
      Gurdon Hist. of the High Court of Parl. 1 (1731): 189. Nichols Coll. of All the Wills (1780): 104-117 (will of Edmond de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist of Norfolk 2(1805): 277-281. Blore Hist & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 42 (Mortimer ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 108 (will of William K.G., 4th Lord Latimer, names his "cousin" Thomas Camoys). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Sussex Arch. Coll. 3 (1850): 96. Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 23-27. Davenport Lords Lieutenant & High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire (1868): 21. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisley 1(1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341, 401; 10th Ser. 7 (1907): 509-510. Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1(1896): 132, 137, 182, 184. Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115. Revised Rpts. of Cases in the English Courts of Common Law & Equity 49 (1901): 195-250 (re. Camoys Peerage). C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 46. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530, 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Tho. Lord Camoys = Elizebeth d. & heire of Wmi. Louches."). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332. D.N.B. 3 (1908): 758-759 (biog. of Thomas de Camoys). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 275-277. C.C.R. 1369-1374 (1911): 406-407. Ruvigny and Raineval Plantagenet Roll: Mortimer-Percy 1 (1911): vi-vii, 2 (erroneously identifies Elizabeth Mortimer as mother of Alice Camoys, wife of Leonard Hastings, Knt., Alice was actually Elizabeth's step-daughter). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 81-82; 547-548. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 155-156, 378-381. C.P. 2 (1912): 507-508 (sub Camoys); 9 (1936): 713-714 (sub Northumberland); 14 (1998): 138 (sub Camoys). VCH Bedfordshire 3 (1912): 189-202. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 61. Feudal Aids 6 (1920): 521. Cal. IPM 13 (1954): 150-151. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35; 6(1) (1980): 69-70, 77; 7 (1940): 80-83. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Hector Westminster Chron. 1381-1394 (1982): 230- 231. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 35 (1983): 156 (biog. of Thomas Camoys, knight). Taylor English Hist. Lit. in the 14th Cent. (1987): 296 (Wigmore Chron. sub 1371: "Bodem anno Elizabeth primogenita filia. domini Edmundi de Mortymer comitis marchie nata est ex philippa uxore died domini Edmundi et Ella leonelli filii Edwardi tercii Anglie idus ffebruaris [13 Feb.] apud Uske et baptisara XVI die ffebruariis et confirmata eodem die."). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 230; 23 (2004): 153, 388-389. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 143-149. Coss Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen (2009):107. Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/590, rot. 127 (available at http:// www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).
      Children of Thomas Camoys, K.G., by Elizabeth Louches:
      i. RICHARD CAMOYS, Knt. [see next].
      ii. ALICE CAMOYS, married LEONARD HASTINGS, Knt, of Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire [see HUNTINGDON 13].
      Child of Thomas Camoys, K.G., by Elizabeth Mortimer:
      i. ROGER CAMOYS, Knt., styled Lord Camoys, of Wotton, Surrey, Trotton, Sussex, Calais, France, etc., Seneschal of Guienne, son by his father's 2nd marriage, born about 1406 (aged 22 in 1428). He married (1st) before 3 March 1437/8 ISABEL ___. They had no issue. In 1429 he quitclaimed to Thomas Morstede, Esq. all his rights in the manor of Wotton, Surrey by way of mortgage for 200 mares; three years later he released to the said Thomas all his rights therein and levied a fine. In 1429 Roger claimed that in 1428 Robert Falowefeld used force arms to seize and carry off his goods and chattels at London to the value of £40. In 1433 he ceded his rights in the manors of Stukeley (in Great Stukeley), Huntingdonshire and Barcombe, Broadwater, and Trotton, Sussex to Roger Lewknor and his wife, Eleanor, niece of the said Roger. In 1436 he and the Earl of Huntingdon relieved the garrison at Calais. He was taken prisoner in France in 1443-4, and detained there in great misery. During his captivity, his wife, Isabel, was granted an annuity of £40 for life in October 1443. In 1411 he obtained license from the king to settle his property at Calais upon himself and his heirs male. His wife, Isabel, died shortly before 26 Nov. 1444, and was buried in the Grey Friars, London. In 1448 he married (2nd) by papal license dated 1448 ISABEL DE BEAUNOY, of the diocese of Rouen, with whom he had already cohabited. They had no issue. In July 1455 the king gave Richard, Earl of Salisbury the armour, etc. "which were of the Lord Camoys, our rebel .... as forfeited by cause of his rebellion." In 1465 SIR ROGER CAMOYS granted an inn called "Nettelbedd" with two tenements in St. Nicholas, Calais to his nephew, William Hastings, 1s, Lord Hastings. His date of death is unknown. Monro Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou & Bishop Beckington (Camden Soc. 86) (1863): 109-110. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 151. VCH Stony 3 (1911): 154-164. Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 77-78. Papal Regs.: Letters 10 (1915): 192 (Roger Camoys styled "brother of the earl of Northumberland"). Rpt. on MSS of the late Reginald R. Hastings 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 273, 275-276. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 230-234. C.C.R. 1422-1429 (1933): 466. C.C.R. 1441-1447 (1937): 166, 460. C.C.R. 1447-1454 (1941-7): 324. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 32-39; 6(1) (1980): 66-81; 7 (1940): 80-83. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Cal. IPM 23 (2004): 153. Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/674, rot. 370 (available at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).”