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Hugh de Courtenay

Male Aft 1358 - 1425  (< 65 years)

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  • Name Hugh de Courtenay
    Birth Aft 1358  of Goodrington, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Death From 5 Mar 1425 to 6 Mar 1425 
    Burial Haccombe, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7633  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Family Elizabeth Fitz Payn   d. 1 Jun 1392
    Marriage Abt 14/14 MAR/MAR 1386/1387 
    Family ID F3403  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “HUGH COURTENAY, Knt., of Goodrington (in Paignton), South Allington, and Stancombe (in Sherford), Devon, Cotton, Dorset, and Hinton (in Mudford) and Mudford Terry, Somerset, and, in right of his 3rd wife, Combehill, Combenetherton, Haccombe, Milton (or Middleton), Ringrnore, and Shobrooke, Devon, Knight of the Shire for Devonshire, 1395, 1397, 1421, Sheriff of Devonshire, 1418-19, younger son, born after 1358. He accompanied his uncles, Peter and Philip Courtenay, in the naval expedition of 1378, which was all but destroyed by the Spaniards. He was taken prisoner in the struggle, but was quickly ransomed. He married (1st) shortly after 14 March 1386/7 (date of marriage arrangements) ELIZABETH FITZ PAYN, widow of Thomas de Audley, Knt. (died before 1 April 1386) [see AUDLEY 11.iii], of Kingston, Devon, and Stogursey, Somerset, and daughter of Robert Fitz Payn (formerly de Grey), Knt., of Stogursey, Bridghampton, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Rodway, etc., Somerset, by Elizabeth, daughter of Guy de Bryan, KG., Lord Bryan [see CODNOR 11.ii for her ancestry]. They had no issue. He served at sea as a member of his brother's retinue from March 1387, under the admiral, Richard de Arundel, Earl of Arundel and Surrey. In 1388 he and his wife, Elizabeth, sued Fulk Fitz Warin, Knt., for dower in the manor of Kingston, Devon. She was living at Michaelmas Term 1389. She reportedly died 1 June 139[2?]. He married (2nd) after 1 July 1392 and before 11 Feb. 1392/3 (date of pardon for marrying without a license) ELIZABETH COGAN, widow of Fulk Fitz Warin, Knt (died 8 August 1391), 5th Lord Fitz Warin [see FITZ WARIN 13], of Whittington, Shropshire, Wantage, Berkshire, etc., and daughter of William Cogan, Knt., of Bampton, Devon, and Huntspill, Somerset, by Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of Nigel (or Neel) Loring, Knt., of Chalgrave, Bedfordshire. She was born about 1374 (aged 8 in 1382). She was heiress in 1382 to her minor brother, John Cogan. They had no surviving issue. She died 29 October 1397. In 1399 he went to Ireland with King Richard II. He married (3rd) before 1407 PHILIPPE L'ARCEDEKNE (or L'ARCEDEAKEN), daughter and co-heiress of Warin l'Arcedekne, Knt., of Elerky (in Veryan), Lanihorne (in Ruan Lanihorne), and Roseworthy (in Gwinear), Cornwall, Haccombe, Devon, etc., by Elizabeth, daughter of John Talbot, Knt. [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1386 (age 21 in 1407). They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Joan. He presented to the church of Haccombe, Devon in 1409 and 1413. He married (4th) by license dated 16 October 1417 MAUD BEAUMONT, daughter of William Beaumont, Knt, of Heanton Punchardon, Devon, by Isabel, daughter of Henry Wilington, Knt. [see CHAMPERNOUN 13 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium appears to have included the manor of Stalpits (in Shrivenham), Berkshire. They had two sons, Edward, Knt, and Hugh, Knt. SIR HUGH COURTENAY died 5 (or 6) March 1425, and was buried at Haccombe, Devon with his 3rd wife, Philippe. His widow, Maud, died 3 July 1467. She left a will dated 10 Jan. 1466/7 (P.C.C. 20 Godyn).
      Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 176-179 (sub Talbot), 228 (sub Archdekne). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 214-271 (sub Courtenay, Viscount Courtenay). Nicolas Rpt. of Procs. on the Claim of the Earldom of Devon (1832): 5-16. Coll Top. et Gen. 3 (1836): 250-278 (re. Bryan fam.); 6 (1840): 79-80 (re. Cogan fam.). Oliver Berl Antiqs. in Devon 1 (1840): 160. Westcote View of Devonshire in MDCXXX (1845): 570-573 (sub Courtenay). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 471-472 (Courtenay ped.). Antiq. 3 (1873): 231-233. Maclean Hist. of Trigg Minor 1 (1876): 384 (Wylyngton ped.); 2 (1876): 240-241 (chart); 3 (1879): 259 (Lercedekne ped.). Colby Vis. of Devon 1564 (1881): 15 (Beamond ped.). Burke Dormant, Abgant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 139-142 (sub Courtenay). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 7 (1883): 50-52,369-371. Stafford Reg of Edmund Stafford (1886): 71-72. Jour. Royal Institution of Cornwall 9 (1886-9): 425-448 (re. Lerchedekne fam.). Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (1887): 105-118 (Courtenay ped.). Lawson Gen. Coils. Ill the Hist. of Roman Catholic Fams. in England 3 (1887): 221-232. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 696 (seal of Hugh de Courtenay dated 1391-2-- A shield of arms: COURTENAY, with a label of three points. Suspended by a strap from a tree, and within a carved gothic panel ornamented with ball-flowers along the inner edge). Jackson Wadham College Oxford (1893): 25 (Tregarthen ped.). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 438-439; 3 (1900): 464-465. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 15) (1894): 6-7. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 65-66 (sub Beaumont), 243-250 (sub Courtenay). Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 215; n.s. 17 (1901): 114. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 35. C.P.R. 1391-1396 (1905): 225. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 208, 259, 331. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 82. C.P. 1 (1910): 187-188; 5 (1926): 463-464 (sub Fitzpayn), 502-503 (sub Fitzwarin). Strange Le Strange Recs. (1916): 333. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 534. Genealogist's Mag. 6 (1932-34): 606-626: Year Books of Richard II 5 (Ames Found. 8) (1937): 158-163. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 6 (sub Archdekne); 151: 3. Cal. Inqs. Misc. 6 (1963): 22-23. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.11770. Ancient Deeds - Ser. BB (List & Index Soc. 137) (1977): 41 (Hugh Courtenay, Knt. styled "brother" of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 35 (1984): 192-193 (biog. of Hugh Courtenay). Cal. IPM 17 (1988): 519-520; 20 (1995): 237-238; 23 (2004): 307-308. Roskell House of Commons 1386=1421 2 (1992): 668-670 (biog. of Sir Hugh Courtenay). VCH Somerset 6 (1992): 136-137; 8 (2004): 91-112. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 30-31 (arrangements Sir Hugh's for 2nd marriage). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 116-119. National Archives, E 210/494 - grant dated 14 March 1386/7 by Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, and Hugh Courtenay, his brother, to Hamo de Breirton, clerk, and others, of their manors of Gothelyngton [Goodrington], Stancombe, and Alyngton, Devon, and further grant by the said earl, to the same, of his manors of Hynton and Modeford, Somerset, on condition that after the said Hugh shall have married Elizabeth de Audeleye (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Hugh Courtenay, Knt., by Philippe l'Arcedekne:
      i. ELIZABETH COURTENAY, born about 1413 (aged Sin 1418). She was co-heiress in 1418 to her aunt, Philippe Talbot, wife of John Tiptoft, 1st Lord Tiptoft and Powis. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 228 (sub Archdekne). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 237-238.
      ii. JOAN COURTENAY, married (1st) NICHOLAS CAREW, Knt., Baron Carew [see CAREW 15]; (2nd) ROBERT VERE, Knt., of Haccombe, Devon [see HACCOMBE 8].
      Child of Hugh Courtenay, Knt., by Maud Beaumont:
      I. HUGH COURTENAY, Knt. [see next].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “Children of James de Audley, Knt., by Isabel ___…
      iii. THOMAS DE AUDLEY, Knt., of Kingston, Devon, and Stogursey, Somerset, son by his father's 2nd marriage. He married ELIZABETH FITZ PAYN, daughter of Robert Fitz Payn (formerly de Grey), Knt., of Stogursey, Bridghampton, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Rodway, etc., Somerset, by Elizabeth, daughter of Guy de Bryan, K.G., Lord Bryan, of Langhorne, Carmarthenshire, Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness and Slapton, Devon, Woodsford, Dorset, etc. [see CODNOR 11.ii for her ancestry]. They had no issue. SIR THOMAS DE AUDLEY. Was living 23 April 1379. He died before 1 April 1386. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) shortly after 14 March 1386/7 (date of marriage arrangements) (as his 1st wife) HUGH COURTENAY, Knt. [see COURTENAY 9], of Goodrington (in Paignton), South Allington, and Stancombe (in:Sherford), Devon, Cotton, Dorset, and Hinton and Mudford Terry, Somerset, younger son of Edward de Courtenay, Knt., in fight of his wife, of Goodrington (in Paignton), South Allington, and Stancombe (in Sherford), Devon, Mudford Terry and Hinton, Somerset, Prince's Bachelor to Edward the Black Prince, by Emeline, daughter and heiress of John Dauney, Knt. [see COURTENAY 8 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1388 Hugh and his wife, Elizabeth, sued Fulk Fitz Warin, Knt., for dower in the manor of Kingston, Devon. She was living at Michaelmas Term 1389. She reportedly died 1 June 139[2?]. SIR HUGH COURTENAY died 5 (or 6) March 1425, and was buried at Haccombe, Devon. Coll Top. et Gen. 3 (1836): 250-278 (re. Bryan fam.). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 (1869): 44. Genealogist 4 (1880): 68-75; 6 (1882): 16-19. Duncumb et al. Colls, towards the Hist. & Antiqs. of Hereford 3 (1882): 10 (Audley ped.). Boyd & Wrottesley Final Concords (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 11) (1890): 190. Wrottesley Stafford hire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 15) (1894): 6-7. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 243-250 (sub Courtenay). Wrotteslg Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 188-189. Chetwynd Hist. of Pirehill Hundred 1 (Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 12) (1909): 228-229 (Audley ped.). C.P. 5 (1926): 463-464 (sub Fitzpayn). Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1939): 410-411. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 16: 1-9 (sub Audley). Cal. IPM 17 (1988): 519-520. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 668-670 (biog. of Sir Hugh Courtenay). National Archives, E 210/986 (grant dated 23 April 1379 by Sir Thomas Fichet, Knt, lord of Spaxston, to Richard Lyf, lord of Corypol, at the request of Sir Thomas de Audelegh, Knt., son of Sir James de Audelegh, lord of Red Castle and Helegh); E 210/494 (grant dated 14 March 1386/7 by Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, and Hugh Courtenay, his brother, to Hamo de Breirton, clerk, Roger Grey, John Wodham, and Thomas Kerdyngton, clerk, of their manors of Gothelyngton [Goodrington], Stancombe, and Alyngton, Devon, and further grant by the said earl, to the same, of his manors of Hynton and Modeford, Somerset, on condition that after the said Hugh shall have married Elizabeth de Audeleye) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CP 25/1/44/60, #381 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “RICHARD DE GREY, Knt., 2nd Lord Grey of Codnor, of Codnor and Denby, Derbyshire, Thurrock, Essex, Tunworth and Upton Grey, Hampshire, Aylesford and Hoo, Kent, Evington and Newbold, Leicestershire, Sherringham, Norfolk, Eastwood and Barton, Nottinghamshire, etc., Seneschal of Gascony, Steward of Aquitaine, Constable of Nottingham Castle, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born about 1281 or 1282 (aged 26, 26-1/2, or 27 in 1308). He married JOAN FITZ PAYN, daughter of Robert Fitz Payn, Knt., Lord Fitz Payn, by Isabel, daughter of John Clifford, Knt., of Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire. They had four sons, John, Knt. [3rd Lord Grey of Codnor], Robert [Fitz Payn], Knt., Gilbert, and Henry, and two daughters, Joan and Maud. He was continually employed in the Scottish wars. He was summoned to Parliament from 4 March 1308/9 by writs directed Ricardo de GT). He presented to the church of Heanor, Derbyshire in 1320. In 1323 he was granted 20 does by the king for burying the body of his kinsman, John de Grey, Knt., 2nd Lord Grey of Ruthin. SIR RICHARD DE GREY, 2nd Lord Grey of Codnor, died testate shortly before 10 March 1334/5.
      Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Cox Notes on the Churches of Dertyshire 4 (1879): 233-234. Year Books of Edward III 3 (Rolls Ser. 31) (1886): 122-131. C.P.R. 1330-1334 (1893): 598. Rye Cal Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 182,297. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 383. Cal IPM 5 (1908): 50-51; 7 (1909): 468-469. Report on the MSS of Lord Middleton.(Hist. Mss. Comm. 69) (1911): 91. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 174-175. Chaplais War of Saint-Sardos (1323-1325) (Camden 3rd Ser. 87) (1954): 78 (Richard styled "trescher cousin" in 1324 by Hugh le Despenser). Paget (1957) 224:1, 259:4-5 (identifies other children Henry, Gilbert and Joan, but no daughter Agnes). List of Inquisitions ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO, Lists and Indexes, No. 17) (repr. 1963): 232,238. Goodall "Heraldry in the Decoration of English Medieval Manuscripts," in Antiquaries Journal 77 (1997): 179-220. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 159.
      Children of Richard de Grey, Knt., by Joan Fitz Payn:
      i. JOHN DE GREY, Knt., 3rd Lord Grey of Codnor [see next].
      ii. ROBERT FITZ PAYN, Knt., 2nd son, of Stogursey, Bridghampton, Cary Fitzpaine, Charlton Mackrell, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Rodway, Speckington, and Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, Okeford Fitzpaine and Wraxall, Dorset, Stourton, Wiltshire, Wisley, Surrey, etc., younger son, born about 1321. He married before 16 October 1354 ELIZABETH DE BRYAN, daughter of Guy de Bryan, K.G., Lord Bryan, of Laugharne, Carrnarthenshire, Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, and Torbrian, Devon, by his 1st wife, Joan, daughter of John de Carew, Knt. [see BRYAN 10.ii for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Elizabeth. In 1354 he was in the king's service with Guy de Bryan in parts beyond sea. In 1359 he and his wife, Elizabeth, conveyed the manors of Wraxall, Dorset and Stourton, Wiltshire to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Maud his wife, for the life of Maud, at an annual rent of 200s., with reversion to himself aind Elizabeth, and his heirs. He was with the king in the invasion of France, October 1359 to 1360, serving in the retinue of Sir Guy de Bryan. He presented to the church of Wisley, Surrey in 1387 and 1388. SIR ROBERT FITZ PAYN died 21 May 1393. His wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 286-287. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 63-65 (sub Bryan). Willement Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral (1827): 121 (Gules, three lions passant, in pale, argent, a bendlet, azure [Fitz Pain], impaling Or, three piles, in chief, azure [Brian].). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1 (1896): 165, 169. Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 2 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 12) (1898): 93, 120-121; 3 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 17) (1902): 182-483. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 378-381. C.P. 2 (1912): 361, footnote h; 5 (1926): 452, 463-464 (sub Fitzpayn); 6 (1926): 125, footnote j; 10 (1945): 663. Paget (1957) 259: 4-5. List of Inquisitons ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO, Lists and Indexes, No. 17) (repr. 1963): 232-233.
      Children of Robert Fitz Payn, Knt., by Elizabeth de Bryan:
      a. ISABEL FITZ PAYN, married RICHARD DE POYNINGS, Knt, 3rd Lord Poynings [see POYNINGS 15].
      b. ELIZABETH FITZ PAYN, married (1st) THOMAS DE AUDLEY, Knt., of Kingston, Devon and Stogursey, Somerset [see AUDLEY 11.1]; (2nd) HUGH DE COURTENAY, Knt. of Goodrington (in Paignton), Devon [see COURTENAY 9].
      iii. JOAN DE GREY, married (1st) WILLIAM DE HARCOURT, Knt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire [see HARCOURT 11]; (2nd) RALPH DE FERRERS, Knt, of Bilton, Warwickshire [see HARCOURT 11].
      iv. MAUD DE GREY, married (1st) JOHN DE GRAVESENDE, of Gravesend, Kent. He died before 25 July 1332, when her father granted her 401 of rent in his manor of Sheringham, Norfolk, in exchange for the manor of Gravesend, Kent, which she granted him for the term of her life. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) before 1336-7 (date of fine) ROGER DE LOUDHAM, Knt., of Herringfleet and Lound, Suffolk. They had three sons, Roger, John, and Nicholas. In 1332 he acknowledged that he owed 400 to Richard de Grey, of Codnor; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Suffolk. In 1336-7 Geoffrey de Cotton conveyed the manor of Gunton, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. He presented to the church of Gunton, Suffolk in 1346. SIR ROGER DE LOUDHAM died 15 March 1347. Suckling Hist & Antiqs. of Suffolk 2 (1847): 1, 9, 12. Rye Some Rough Materials for a Hist. of the Hundred of North Erpingham 1 (1883): 98. C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 598. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 182, 297. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 5 (1910): 40. Rpt. on the MSS of Lord Middleton (Hist. Mss. Comm. 69) (1911): 91. Cal IPM 9 (1916): 2.