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Robert de Courtenay

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  • Name Robert de Courtenay 
    Born of Okehampton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Abt 27 Jul 1242  Iwerne, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Ford Abbey, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6183  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Reynold de Courtenay,   b. Abt 1150, of Okehampton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Sep 1194  (Age ~ 44 years) 
    Mother Hawise de Courcy,   b. Bef 1162,   d. 31 Jul 1219  (Age > 57 years) 
    Married From 1173 to 1178 
    Family ID F2682  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary de Vernon,   d. Aft 15 Jul 1250, of Iwerne, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married From 1210 to 1211 
    Children 
     1. John de Courtenay,   d. 3 May 1274
     2. William de Courtenay
     3. Robert de Courtenay,   d. 1 Jan 1258
     4. Egeline de Courtenay,   d. Aft 1297
     5. Hawise de Courtenay,   d. Bef 8 Apr 1269
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2681  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Knt., of Okehampton, Kenn, Musbury, and Sampford Courtenay, Devon, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, lwerne, Dorset, etc., Sheriff of Devonshire, 1215, 1218, Justice for Berkshire and Wiltshire, 1235, son and heir. He was heir in 1209 to his uncle, Robert de Courtenay. He married in 1210-11 (grant of her marriage) MARY DE VERNON, widow of Peter de Preaux, Knt.,* of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc., lord of the Channel Islands, Constable of Rouen (living 1209), and daughter of William de Vernon, Knt., 5th Earl of Devon, by Mabel, daughter of Robert II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 8 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included lands in Crewkerne, Somerset, with the foreign hundred and the chace there. They had three sons, John, Knt., William, Knt., and Robert [Dean of Auckland], and two daughters, Egeline and Hawise. In 1209 he paid a fine to the king of 400 marks and two great horses to have seisin of the manor of Sutton, Berkshire. In 1211 he owed 1,200 marks to have the honour of Oakhampton, Devon, which had been in the king's hands. In 1217 he was ordered by the king to release Exeter Castle and the stannaries and coinage of Devon to the queen mother. In 1214 he sued Roger Chike and two others regarding lands in Sutton, Berkshire. In April 1218 he offered 5 marks to have a jury concerning the hundred of Redlane which he said was his and pertains to his manor of Iweme, which hundred, and the hundred of Gillingham, were withdrawn from him and his ancestors. In July 1218 the king committed custody of the manor of Sutton, Berkshire to John of Wiggonholt for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answer for the issues of the same manor to Stephen de Croy, merchant of Amiens, for the debt which Robert de Courtenay owed him. In 1219 the king ordered the Sheriff of Devon that he cause Robert de Courtenay to have full seisin of all lands and appurtenances in Devonshire formerly of Hawise de Courtenay, his mother, which fell to the said Robert by inheritance. In 1220 he was granted a two day fair at his manor of Okehampton, Devon. In 1220 John de Saint Helen sued him regarding half a hide of land in Sutton, Berkshire. The same year Maud de Courtenay (his aunt and step-grandmother) sued him regarding the manors of Oakhampton, Chulmleigh, Kenn, and Musbury, and Sampford, Devon and Hemington, Somerset, which she claimed as her right. In 1224 he made fine with the king to render £30 to him annually at the Exchequer of the £190 8s. 7d. due from him to the king; he was allowed such costs he incurred, by order of the king and the same justiciar, to fill a breach in the wall of Exeter castle. In 1227 the king committed the manor of Sedborough (in Parkham), Devon with its appurtenances to his wife, Mary. In 1230 he was overseas in the service of the king. In the period, 1230-2, he settled a long standing dispute with Abingdon Abbey regarding digging turves from the manor of Culham for the repair of Sutton mill, Berkshire. SIR ROBERT DE COURTENAY died at Iweme, Dorset about 27 July 1242, and was buried at Ford Abbey, Dorset. His widow, Mary, was living 15 July 1250.
      [*Mary de Vernon married (1st) in 1201 (date of charter) (betrothal dated early 1200) Peter de Preaux, Knt., of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc., lord of the Channel Islands, Constable of Rouen, younger son of Osbert de Preaux, of Normandy. They had no issue. He accompanied King Richard I on crusade in 1190. He distinguished himself at the Siege of Acre in 1192. In the period, 1194-9, he served King Richard I throughout his wars against Philip II of France. In 1203 he was in charge of the escheats of Normandy and the Jews, except for the Jews of Rouen and Caen. The same year he was granted all the land which Peter de Meulan (his Wife's uncle) held at Sens, Normandy. In 1204, in agreement with the leading men of the city, he surrendered Rouen to King Philippe Auguste of France. He was living in 1209.]
      Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survey of the County of Devon (1811): 356-357. Burke Gen’l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 62; 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clxix-clxx, clxxii-clxxiii; 2 (1844): cidiv-cxlvi, cc, ccxxix-ccxxxii (Peter de Préaux styled "brother" [fratris] by Alice, Countess of Eu). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Qui Robertus [de Courtenay] cum tandem vitæ suæ laudabilem cursum fæliciter consummasset in stadio, septimo calend. Augusti [26 July] apud Ywren, manerium suum, diem clausit extremum anno Domini M.CCXLII. [1242] et regni regis Henrici III. 26..."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 464-472. (Courtenay ped.) Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Le Quesne Constitutional Hist. of Jersey (1856): 109-110. Collectanea Archæologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Shirley Royal & Other Historical Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 1 (1862) (Rolls ser. 27): 40-41, 160, 232-233 (letters of Robert de Courtenay). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 250-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 388; 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3; 8th Ser. 7 (1895): 441-443. Bibuotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes 32 (1871): 403-404. Reliquary 17 (1876-7): 97-104. MSS of the Marquess of Abergavenny (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1887): 72-73. Ouless Ecréhous, Illustrated (1884): 8-10. Worthy Hist. of the Suburbs of Exeter (1885): 61-62, 81-82, 149. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 133-134, 137-138 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that he was the son of Hawise, the first born daughter of Maud d'Avranches; Hawise's sister, Maud de Courtenay, who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit, in turn testified that the said Hawise was the daughter of Geoffrey de Crimes (or Crunes, Cruues), the 1st husband of Maud d'Avranches), 404-405; 3 (1887): 320, 450-452 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that his mother, Hawise, was the daughter of William de Curcy, husband of Maud d'Avranches). Archer Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 (1889): 326. Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 65-68; 5 (1892): 21 (charter of Robert de Courtenay). Curtis Short Hist. & Desc. of the Town of Alton (1896): 21-22. Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 53 (Robert de Courtenay styled "king's kinsman" by King Henry III of England). Desc. Gat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 69. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 535. G.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 60. Devon Notes & Queries 4 (1907): 148-149, 229-232 (re. Preaux fam.). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 3) (1907): 79. C.P. 4 (1916): 317 (sub Devon) (ped.), 323 (sub Devon), 465. C.R.R. 7 (1935): 51, 97, 134, 146, 192-193, 244, 259, 333; 9 (1952): 26, 36-37, 104, 237, 294, 305-306, 322, 330, 362; 10 (1949): 22, 115-116, 119-120; 17 (1991): 166. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1211 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 61. Seversmith Col. Fams. of Long Island 5 (1958): 2413-2419, 2439-2440. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 70. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 68-74. VCH Somerset 4 (1978): 4-38. Schwennicke Europaische Stanmtfeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay). Bearman Charters of the Redvers family and the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994): 172. Reedy Rafret Charters c. 1120 to 1250 (Pub. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 128-129 (charter of Egeline de Courtenay, widow of Gilbert Basset dated 1205-6; charter names her late father, Reynold de Courtenay; charter witnessed by Robert de Courtenay). Barlow English Episcopal Acta XII (1996): 215. Golb Jews in Medieval Normandy (1998): 372. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 90 (charter of Robert de Courtenay dated 1225-42; charter witnessed by his sons, John and William, and Reynold de Courtenay [presumably his brother]); 109 (charter of Robert de Courtenay dated 1225-42; charter witnessed by his brother, Reynold de Courtenay), 152-153 (charter of John son of Ellis, parson of Crewkeme dated 1228-36; charter witnessed by Sir Robert de Courtenay and Reynold his brother). Church King John: New Interpretations (1999): 135 footnote 114, 202 ("The Courtenays to whom Henry II awarded landed in England, although related to the original Courtenay line, appear to have been only distant cousins. Nonetheless, cousins they were, so that in 1217, when Robert de Courtenay was asked to surrender Exeter to Isabella, he is described in King Henry III's letter as 'our kinsman.' Perhaps because of his kinship to one of the leading families of France, Robert de Courtenay of Okehampton appears to have been singled out for particularly harsh treatment by Louis and the French during the civil war of 1216-17, being deprived of his lands in one of Louis' few surviving English charters. The fact that the original of this charter survived amongst the Courtenay family archives in France provides further proof, if such were needed, of the kinship between the English and French Courtenays. Robert appears as witness to Isabella's charter in favour of the monks of St. Nicholas Exeter, issued at Exeter in May 1217.). Knight Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1222 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 51) (1999): 51. Sayer Original Docs. in Eng. & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 165-166 ("Lyons, 1250 Jul. 15. 369. Innocentius IV <> Protection for the noble lady, Mary de Cortenay of the diocese of Bath, Hawise de Neville and her other sons and daughters, with all their goods."). Barratt Receipt Rolls, Easter 1223, Michaelmas 1224 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 55) (2007): 85.
      Children of Robert de Courtenay, Knt., by Mary de Vernon:
      i. JOHN DE COURTENAY, Knt. [see next].
      ii. ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Dean of Auckland, dead 1 Jan. 1258. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 190 (Robert le Clerc, son of Robert de Curtenay, styled "king's kinsman").
      iii. EGELINE DE COURTENAY, married PHILIP DE COLUMBERS, of Nether Stowey, Honibere (in Lilstock), Huntworth, Puriton, Woolavington, and Woolstone (in Stogursey), Somerset and Battisford, Suffolk, son and heir of Philip de Columbers, of Nether Stowey and Honibere (in Lilstock), Somerset. They had two sons, Philip and John. At an unknown date, he confirmed William de Rokelle in his land in Akot and Beningham, which property the said Philip's grandfather, Philip de Columbers, gave in free marriage to Richard de Rokelle and Maud de Columbers his daughter, parents of the said William and Philip de Rokelle. PHILIP DE COLUMBERS died in 1262. In 1272 his widow, Egeline, settled 100 librates of land in South Kelsey, Lincolnshire and Blacktoft, Yorkshire, together with the advowson of the church of Torrington, Lincolnshire, on Gilbert Hansard and Joan his wife. Egeline was living in 1297. Roberts Excerpta è Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis 2 (1836): 256, 378, 384. Gairdner Letters & Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 7 (1883): 326-357. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 389-390 (confirmation charters of Philip de Columbers tertius). Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 145-146; 2 (1906): 126-133. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 292. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees (1923): 137-140. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxv (Columbers ped.). VCH Somerset 5 (1985): 103-107; 6 (1992): 137-145; 8 (2004): 210-223. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay).
      iv. HAWISE DE COURTENAY, married (1st) JOHN DE NEVILLE, Knt., of Essex [see DE LA MARE 10]; (2nd) JOHN DE GATESDEN, Knt., of Broadwater, Sussex [see DE LA MARE 10].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “REYNOLD DE COURTENAY, in right of his wife, of Okehampton, Alphington, Kenn, Musbury, Wimple, and Winkleigh, Devon, younger son by his father's 1st marriage, born about 1150. He married after 1173 and before 1178 HAWISE DE COURCY, daughter and heiress of William de Courcy (or ?Geoffrey de Crimes?), by Maud, daughter of Robert d'Avranches. She was born before 1162, and was the older half-sister of his father's 2nd wife, Maud Fitz Robert. They had three sons, Robert, Knt., Reynold, Knt., and Henry. In 1178 he and his wife, Hawise, were granted license to have a free chapel at Oakhampton, Devon. At an unknown date, he witnessed a charter of his brother, Robert de Courtenay. REYNOLD DE COURTENAY died 27 Sept. 1194, and was buried at Ford Abbey, Dorset. In 1199 she fined for 300 marks for the lands of her mother, which included 40 librates in England and just as many in Normandy. In 1201 she owed 40 marks and one palfrey for 18 knights' fees. The same year she paid 40 marks for permission to cross the seas. In 1205 she owed 500 pounds and five palfreys to have livery of the honour of Oakhampton, Devon. At an unknown date, she confirmed to Christchurch Priory the land of Wicha in the manor of Chulmleigh, Devon, which land her predecessor, Richard Fitz Baldwin, previously gave to William Martel. Sometime during her widowhood, she granted the advowson of the church of Alphington, Devon to Henry de Courtenay. At an unknown date, she gave Ford Abbey the whole land of Haregrave, Devon in frankalmoin for maintaining three poor persons in the infirmary of the said house. Hawise died 31 July 1219, and was buried at Ford Abbey, Dorset. On 14 August 1219 the king ordered the Sheriff of Devon to take into the king's hand all lands and tenements in his bailiwick formerly of Hawise de Courtenay, and keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. The same year her sister, Maud de Courtenay, brought a lawsuit against her, but the action was stayed due to Hawise's death.
      Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 2-5 (undated charter of Hawise de Courtenay; charter names her sister, Maud; charter witnessed by her sons, Robert de Courtenay and Reynold his brother). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 62. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "[Reynold de Courtenay] Dilectus igitur a Deo et hominibus, cujus memoria in benedictione, quinto calendas Octobris [27 Sept.] anno Domini M.CXCIV. et regni regis Ricardi quarto & leiter obiit in Christo, et apud Fordam in aquilonari parte presbiterii sepultus quiescit … [Hawise, widow of Reginaldi de Courtenay] obiit tandem plenam dierum in senectute bona pridie calendas Augusti [31 July] anno Dom. MCCIX [recte 1219], et anno regni Johannis decimo, qux in ecclesia Fordensi in australi parte presbiterii sepelitur."). Lipscomb Hist. d'Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 471-472 (Courtenay ped.). Collectanea Archæologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Reliquary 17 (1876-7): 97-104. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3; 8th Ser. 7 (1895): 441-443. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 404-405; 3 (1887): 450-452. MSS of the Marquess of Abergavenny (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1887): 72-73 (undated charter of Robert de Courtenay; charter names his wife, Maud, and is witnessed by Reynold and William de Courtenay). Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. C.P. 4 (1916): 317 (sub Devon) (ped.), 465, footnote c. C.R.R. 1 (1922): 127; 8 (1938): 32. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1201 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 14) (1936): 223. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2419, 2425-2426. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay). Slade & Lambrick Two Cartularies of Abingdon Abbey 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. n.s. 32) (1990): 171 (charter of Reynold de Courtenay dated pre-1194). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (2007): 281.”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “JOHN DE NEVILLE, Knt., of Little Hallingbury, Essex, Stogursey, Somerset, South Stoke, Sussex, West Harnham, Wiltshire, etc., Chief Forester and Justice of the King's Forest throughout England, son and heir. He married in 1230 HAWISE DE COURTENAY, daughter of Robert de Courtenay, Knt., Okehampton, Kenn, Musbury, and Sampford Courtenay, Devon, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, Iwerne, Dorset, etc., by Mary, daughter of William de Vernon, Knt., 5th Earl of Devon [see COURTENAY 3 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included eleven librates of land in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire and 24 librates of land and the advowson of the church in Alphington, Devon. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and John, and one daughter, Joan. In 1231 he sued William, Prior of Cowick, regarding the advowson of the church of Alphington, Devon. In 1234, before his father's death, he fined to have the bailiwick of the King's Forest in Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, and Huntingdonshire for life; after his father's death, he did homage 21 July 1234. He was appointed Chief Forester and Justice of the whole of the King's Forest through England 21 October 1235. Sometime in the period, 1234-46, he confirmed the grants of his father and ancestors to the monks of Stogursey. In 1240 he sailed with Richard, Earl of Cornwall, for Palestine. After his return to England, he was so rapacious and oppressive in the execution of his office as Forester that he escaped prison only by payment of a very heavy fine. He retired in disgrace to Wethersfield, Essex. SIR JOHN DE NEVILLE died at Wethersfield, Essex shortly before 8 June 1246, and was buried at Waltham Abbey, Essex. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) before Easter 1254 (date of fine) JOHN DE GATESDEN, Knt., of Broadwater, Barcombe, Didling, Dumpford, Elsted, and Trotton, Sussex, Stockholt (in Akeley), Buckinghamshire, Eling and Lasham, Hampshire, Compton, Surrey, etc. They had one daughter, Margaret (or Margery). Sometime before 1262 he granted the Dean and Chapter of Chichester one acre of land in Didling, Sussex. SIR JOHN DE GATESDEN died shortly before 17 October 1262. In 1264 his widow, Hawise, was given two deer as a gift of the king. Sometime in the period, 1265-9, she and her daughter, Joan, witnessed an alleged miracle in Sussex, which was accredited to the late Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. Hawise was a benefactress of Beeleigh (Maldon) Abbey, and founded a chantry at the Priory of Mottenden in Headcorn, Kent. She died shortly before 8 April 1269.
      Burke Gen’l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Division of the County of Sussex 1 (1815): 202. Halliwell-Phillipps Chron. of William de Rishanger (Camden Soc. 15) (1840): 90, 101-102 (Hawise de Courtenay and Joan de la Mare both styled "noblewomen"). Wood Letters of Royal & Ill. Ladies (1846): 42-46 (letter dated c.1258 from Lady Hawise de Neville (née Courtenay) to her son, Hugh de Neville, dated c.1258, in which she says: "Sir Walter de la Hide, Joan your sister, and all our household salute you."; see also Blauuw Barons' War (1871): 184, footnote 1). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 471-472 (Courtenay ped). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 4 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1877): 563-564 (death of John de Neville). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 404-405. Archaeologia 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 351-370. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 378. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 19-30 (A. 4008 - Demise of John de Gatesden, 2nd husband of Hawise de Courtenay, witnessed by Walter de la Hide, Knt.), 19-30 (A. 4010 - Release by Hawise de Neville, widow of Sir John de Gatesden, witnessed by Walter de la Hyde, Knt.). Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 2 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 7) (1908): 8, 25, 62-63, 73-74, 116-117. Sussex Arch. Colls. 51 (1908): 190. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 16-24. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 103-110. Sussex Notes & Queries 1 (1927): 215-216. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 107-118, 144-147. CP. 9 (1936): 481-482 (sub Neville). C.C.R. 1264-1268 (1937): 8. Peckham Chartulary of the High Church of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 46) (1942/3): 102. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxiv (Curci ped.), 43 (charter of John de Neville son of Hugh de Neville dated 1234-46). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 8-10; 7 (1940): 80-83. Weinbaum London Eye of 1276 (London Rec. Soc.) (1976): 107, 109-110 (charter of John de Gatesdene; mentions his wife, Hawise). Meekings 1235 Surrey Eyre (Surrey Rec. Soc. 31) (1979): 196-199. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay). VCH Somerset 6 (1992): 136-137. Barlow English Episcopal Acta XII (1996): 215. Young Making of the Neville Family in England: 1166-1400 (1996): 46-49. Meel & Simms Fragility of her Sex? (20106): 130. Stewart 1263, Surrey Eyre (Surrey Rec. Soc. 40) (2006): lxxxvi, cii, cxviii, cxxi. Ward Women in England in the Middle Ages (2006): 75. National Archives, E 40/4008, E 40/4010; DL 25/168; DL 25/193; DL 25/1293; DL 25/3469; DL 27/70; DL 34/1/2; SC 7/64/2 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Child of Hawise de Courtenay, by John de Neville, Knt.:
      i. JOAN DE NEVILLE[see next].
      Child of Hawise de Courtenay, by John de Gatesden, Knt.:
      i. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE GATESDEN, married (1st) JOHN DE CAMOYS, Knt., of Flockthorpe (in Hardingham), Norfolk [see CAMOYS 5]; (2nd) WILLIAM PAYNEL, Knt., Lord Paynel [see CAMOYS 5].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “MABEL OF MEULAN, married WILLIAM DE VERNON (or DE RIVIERS, DE RIVERS), 5th Earl of Devon, of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, Exminster and Plympton, Devon, Christchurch, Hampshire, Crewkerne, Somerset, etc., younger son of Baldwin de Reviers, 1st Earl of Devon, by his wife, Adelise. They had one son, Baldwin, and two daughters, Mary and Joan. Sometime before 1188 he granted land and a house in Yarmouth, Hampshire to William Maskerel to make a hospital. He was heir in 1193 to his nephew, Richard de Reviers, 4th Earl of Devon. In the period, c.1193-1208, he confirmed earlier gifts of the advowsons of the churches of llsington, Stokeinteignhead, and Ugborough, Devon to Plympton Priory. He also either gave or confirmed to Plympton Priory the chapel of St. Mary in his castle at Plympton, Devon. In 1194 King Richard I granted him the tertius denarius of Devon as his father Baldwin and predecessor Richard had held it. He attended the second coronation of King Richard I in 1194, where he was one of four nobles who supported the silken canopy over the king. His wife, Mabel, was living 1 May 1204. In 1206 he sued Robert, Prior of Plympton regarding the advowson of the church of Exminster, Devon. WILLIAM DE VERNON, 5th Earl of Devon, died 10 Sept. 1217.
      Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76, 112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 1. Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survry of the County of Devon (1811): 356-357. Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Ferrey Antiqs. of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hants (1834): 6-7. Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Guilrneth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Westcote View of Devonshire in MDC.,00C (1845): 421. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Anno itaque sequenti, quarto idus Septembris [10 Septembert obiit idem comes Willielmus."); 6(2) (1830): 843 (charter of William de Vernon dated pre-May 1188), 843-844 (charter of William de Vernon), 843-844 (confirmation charter of William de Vernon dated pre-1194). Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846): lvii. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 464-466. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 11(1855): 213-227. Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Collectanea Archaologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Western Antiq. 1 (1882): 37. Clark Mediæval Military Arch. in England 1 (1884): 390-391. Worthy Hist. of the Suburbs of Exeter (1885): 61-62, 81-82. Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 65-68. Worthy Practical Docs. Heraldry (1889): 193-195 (seal of William de Vernon, 6th Earl of Devon - "The device on his seal to an undated deed ... consists of three Roundles, and over them a label of three points."). MSS of the Duke of Somerset, the Marquis of Ailesbury & the Rev. Sir T.H.G. Puleston, Bart. (Hist. MSS Comm. 43) (1898): 133. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 321 (charter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon dated c.1196; charter names his wife, Mabel, and his grandmother, Adeliz de Rivers), 322. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Bones Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1 (1906): 25-38. Guilloreau Cartulaire de Loders (1908): 19-20 (charter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon dated c.1196; charter names his wife, Mabel, and his grandmother, Adeliz de Rivers), 20 (letter of William, Earl of Devon to Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury; letter names his grandmother, Adelicia de Rivers). C.P. 4 (1916): 771; 7 (1929): Appendix I, 740, footnote i (sub Counts of Meulan). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 828-829 (sub Redvers, Fam. of). Lays Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 200-201 (charter of William de Vernon dated pre-May 1188), 203-204 (confirmation charter of William de Vernon dated pre-1194). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 3-4. Seversmith Col. Fams. of Long Island 5 (1958): 2440-2442. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 137-138. Hockey Quarr Abbey & its Lands, 1132-1631 (1970): 39, 61, 67, 85, 126. Bearman Charters of the Redvers Fam. & the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994). Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 245-246, 509 (Malian. ped.). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 217 (charter of William de Vemun, Earl of Devon dated c.1193-1208; charter witnessed by Countess Mabel and Peter Meulent), 226 (charter of William de Redveriis, Earl of Devon dated 1194). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 61, 82, 92-93 ("William de Vernon ... continued the pattern of patronage ... the majority of his charters, both confirmations and original gifts, were made to Christchurch Priory and Quarr Abbey, although he did issue a couple of confirmation charters to Plympton Priory ... [His charters] also record gifts and confirmations to the houses of Montebourg, Carisbrooke, Breamore, and Lyre as well as to the Knights Templar."), 113-114.
      Children of Mabel of Meulan, by William de Vernon:
      i. MARY DE VERNON, married (1st) PETER DE PREAUX, Knt., of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc. [see COURTENAY 3]; (2nd) ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Knt., of Okehampton, Devon [see COURTENAY 3].
      ii. JOAN DE VERNON, married WILLIAM BRIWERRE, Knt., of Horsley, Derbyshire, Odcombe, Somerset, etc. [see BRIWERRE 3.ii].”