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Hugh de Courtenay

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  • Name Hugh de Courtenay 
    Born of Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 20/20 Feb 1373/4 
    Person ID I7637  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Margaret de Bryan,   d. From 1361 to 3 Oct 1362 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3346  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “Child of Hugh de Courtenay, KG., by Elizabeth de Vere:
      a. HUGH DE COURTENAY, Knt., 3rd Lord Courtenay, of Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire and Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, son and heir. He married (1st) MARGARET DE BRYAN, daughter of Guy de Bryan, K.G., Lord Bryan, of Laugharne, Carrnarthenshire, Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness and Slapton, Devon, Woodsford, Dorset, etc., by his 1st wife, Joan, daughter of John de Carew, Knt., of Carew, Pembrokeshire, Moulsford, Berkshire, Galmpton (in Churston Ferrers), Ottery Mohun (in Luppit), Monkton, and Stoke Fleming, Devon, etc. [see BRYAN 11.ii for her ancestry]. They had no issue. His wife, Margaret, was living in 1361. He married (2nd) by marriage settlement dated 3 October 1362 (dispensation dated 29 August 1363, they being related in the 3rd and 4th degree of kindred) MAUD DE HOLAND (also known as MAHAUT DE REUS) [see KENT 9.v], daughter of Thomas de Holand, K.G., 1st Earl of Kent, by Joan, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (son of King Edward I) [see KENT 9 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1366 they received an indult for a portable altar, to have mass celebrated before daybreak, etc. He was knighted by Edward the Black Prince before Vittoria in 1367, and was at the Battle of Nàjera the same year. He was summoned to Parliament 8 Jan. 1370/1, by writ directed Hugoni de Courteney le fitz whereby he is held to have become Lord Courtenay. In 1373 King Edward III of England granted a pardon at the request of Maud de Courtenay his kinswoman to William del Langhous for the death of William del Kechin. In 1374 the king likewise granted a pardon at the request of Lady de Courtenay his kinswoman to Walter Hydon for the death of Walter Robyn. SIR HUGH DE COURTENAY, 3rd Lord Courtenay, died 20 Feb. 1373/4. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) at Windsor, Berkshire in Easter week, 1380 (as his 1st wife) WALERAN DE LUXEMBOURG, Knt., Count of Ligny (in Namur) and Saint-Pol (in Artois), seigneur of Fiennes and Bohain, Châtelain of Lille and Bourbourg, Constable of France [see KENT 9.v], son and heir of Guy de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny (in Namur), seigneur of Roussy, Beaurevoir (in Arrouaise), and Richebourg, Châtelain of Lille, Governor of Arras and Picardy, and, in right of his wife, Count of Saint-Pol, by Mahaut, daughter of Jean de Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol [see WYDEVILLE 10 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Jeanne (wife of Antoine de Bourgogne, Duke of Lorraine, Brabant, and Luxembourg, Count of Rethel, Marquis of the Holy Empire). In 1390 King Richard II of England granted a pardon at the supplication of his sister, Maud, Countess of Saint-Pol, to John Wallere, of Horstead, Sussex, who was indicted for murdering Peter Gracyan, a Lombard. His wife, Maud, was buried at Westminster Abbey 23 April 1392. WALERAN DE LUXEMBOURG, Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol, died at Ivois Castle in Chiny 19 April 1415, and was buried in the church of Notre Dame in that town. Anselxne Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 3 (1728): 724 (sub Ligny) (identifies Maud, 1st wife of Waleran de Luxembourg, as "Mahaud de Roeux"). Rymer Fœdera 7 (1728): 675 (Maud, Countess of Ligny and Saint-Pol, styled "sister" by King Richard II of England in 1390). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 214-271 (sub Courtenay, Viscount Courtenay). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespee-Zouch ped.). Nicolas Controversy between Scrope & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 245-255 (biog. of Sir Guy Bryan). 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 Backingham 1 (1847): 471-472 (Courtenay ped.). Hulton Coucher Book, or Chartulary, of Whalley Abbey 4 (Chetham Soc. 20) (1849): 977-979 (Holand ped.). Goethals Dictionnaire Gen. & Heraldique des Fams. Nobles du Royaume de Belgique 4 (1852). Neyen Biographie Luxembourgeoise 2 (1861): 52 (biog. of Walram de Luxembourg-Ligny). Johnes Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet 1 (1869): 327. De Robaulx de Soumoy Considerations sur le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas 1 (Coll. de Mems. Relatifs a l'Hist. de Belgique) (1872): 9. Mems. de la Soc. des Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Bar-le-Duc 2 (1872): 140-142; 2nd Ser. 3 (1884): 362-363. Mems. de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1873 3'd Ser. 12 (1874): 167-187. Le Fevre Chronique de Jean Le Fevre, Seigneur de Saint-Remy 1(1876): 212 ("Le XIX. jour d'avril, mil IIII. et XV, morut et la vile d'Ivix, en la duchie de Luxembourg, le conte Walleran, conte de Ligny et de Saint-Pol, soy-disant encores connestable de France, et flit enterre en Peglise Nostre-Dame en ladicte vile d'Ivix, devant le grant miter). Duchet & Giry Cartulaires de l'Eglise de Terouarre (1881): 285-286 (letter dated 1406 of Waleran de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol, seigneur of Fiennes). Haignere "Cartulaire de l'Eglise abbatiale Notre-Dame de Boulogne-sur-Mer, Ordre de Saint-Augustin, 1067-1567" in Memoires de la Societe academique de l'Arrondissement de Boulogne-sur-Mer 13 (1882-6): 216 (charter of Waleran de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol, seigneur of Fiennes dated 13 April 1392, naming his deceased wife, Mahaut de Reus [i.e., Maud de Holand]). Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 50-56, 65-68, 89-93, 97; 5 (1892): 78-80. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 243-250 (sub Courtenay). Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 453. C.P.R. 1388-1392 (1902): 256, 364, 420 (instances of [Waleran], Count of St. Paul/St. Pol, styled "king's brother"), 313 ([Maud], Countess of St. Paul [sic] styled "king's sister"). C.P.R. 1391-1396 (1905): 212. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 225-226. C.C.R. 1360-1364 (1909): 262. C.P. 3 (1913): 466-467 (sub Courtenay); 4 (1916): 325 (sub Devon). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 372-373. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 109-110. Genealogist's Mag. 6 (1932-34): 606-626. Barroux Les Fetes royales de Saint-Denis en Mai 1389 (1936): 17-18, 62. John of Gaunt's Reg. 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 56) (1937): 151-153. Legge Anglo-Norman Letters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 368. Harvey Westminster Abbey & its Estates in the Middle Ages (1977): 378. Schwennicke Europaische Stanmtafeln 3(4) (1989): 630 (sub Courtenay); 6 (1978): 28 (sub Luxemburg). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 116-119. Maillard-Luypaert Papaute; Clercs et Laws (2001): 307. Preest Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham, 1376-1422 (2005): 104.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “JOAN TALBOT, married (as his 2nd wife) JOHN DE CAREW (or CARREU, CARRU), Knt., of Carew, Pembrokeshire, Moulsford, Berkshire, Galmpton (in Churston Ferrets), Mamhead, Monkton, Stoke Fleming, and Weston Peverell, Devon, etc., son and heir of Nicholas Carew, Knt., of Moulsford, Berkshire, by Amice, sister of John Peverel, Knt. They had one son, John, Knt. [Justiciar of Ireland], and one daughter, Joan. In 1313 he confirmed the manor of Weston Peverell, Devon to Robert Lendon his servant. SIR JOHN DE CAREW died about 1324. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) JOHN DE DARTMOUTH. His widow, Joan, presented to the church of Mamhead, Devon in 1348 and 1350.
      Betham Baronetage of England 2 (1802): 283-289 (sub Carew). Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survey of the County of Devon (1811): 37-38. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 3 (1812): 1-49 (sub Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury). Duncumb et al. Colls. Towards the Hist. & Antiqs. of Hereford 2(1) (1812): 376-383. Debrett's Baronetage of England 1 (1815): 371-374 (sub Carew). Oliver Ecclesiastical Antiqs. in Devon 3 (1842): 66. Visitation of the County of Cornwall, in the Year 1620 (1874): 28- 32 (Carew ped.: "(1) Elinor da. & heir of Wm. Mohun of Ottery. = John Carreu Lord of C. &c. ob. 17 E. 2. = (2) Joan da. of Sir Gilbert Talbot."). Western Antiq. 11 (1893): 51. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 133-136 (Carew ped.). Owen Description of Pembrokshire 2 (1897): 325-338. D.N.B. 3 (1908): 962-963 (biog. of Sir John Carew). Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 192-193. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 22 (seal of John de Carew dated 1314 - Hung in a beaded circle, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: three lions passant. Legend: *SIGILLVM.I0HANNISDE.CARRV.). Devon Rec. Office: Mamhead, 6252 Z/Z/1-2 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Plymouth & West Devon Rec. Office: Bewes, Dickinson & Scott, Solicitors of Plymouth, 81/R/12/6/17 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of Joan Talbot, by John de Carew, Knt:
      i. JOHN DE CAREW, Knt. [see next].
      ii. JOAN DE CAREW, married (as his 1st wife) GUY DE BRYAN, K.G., of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, and Northam, Slapton, and Torbrian, Devon, Seneschal of Pembroke, 1340, son and heir of Guy de Bryan, of Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Nympton St. George, Slapton, and Torbrian, Devon, etc. He was born about 1309 (being of age in 1330). They had three daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Philippe (wife of Edward de Bohun and John de Chandos, Knt.). He was first armed at Stannow Park in 1327. In 1330 the king settled a dispute between him and his father, Guy de Bryan, senior, relative to the barony and castle of Walwayn, Pembrokeshire. In 1345 John l'Archdeacon owed him a debt of £500. In 1346 he acquired the manor of Brettgrave (in Epsom), Surrey from the Abbot and convent of Chertsey. In 1347 his wife, Joan, obtained a license for a private oratory in her manor of Brettgrave (in Epsom), Surrey. In 1348 he obtained a license for an oratory for his manor of Brettgrave (in Epsom), Surrey. The same year he conveyed the manor of Brettgrave to various feoffees, probably in trust for Henry, Duke of Lancaster. In 1349 he was granted an annuity of 200 marks for baring the King's Standard against his enemies at Calais. He married (2nd) before 10 July 1350 ELIZABETH DE MONTAGU, widow successively of Giles de Badlesmere, Knt., 2nd Lord Badlesmere (died 7 June 1338) [see BADLESMERE 9.i], and Hugh le Despenser, Knt., 3rd Lord Despenser (died 8 Feb. 1348/9) [see DESPENSER 11.i], and daughter of William de Montagu, Knt., 1st Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Lord Montagu, Marshal of England, by Katherine, daughter of William de Grandison, Knt., 1st Lord Grandison [see MONTAGU 7 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Guy, Knt., William, Knt. [see ECHINGHAM 10], and Philip. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 Nov. 1350 to 6 Dec. 1389, whereby he is held to have become Lord Bryan. He was constantly entrusted with martial and diplomatic affairs of the highest importance. He presented to the church of Torbrian, Devon in 1353. In 1357 he obtained a license for an oratory at his house at Ashley, Hampshire. His wife, Elizabeth, died at Ashley, Hampshire 31 May 1359, and was buried with her 2nd husband in Tewkesbury Abbey. In 1361 he served as ambassador to the Pope. In 1369 he was appointed Admiral of the Fleet. In 1367 he purchased the manor of Woodsford, Dorset from John Whitfield, Knt. In 1377 he gave an endowment to four chaplains for the chapel of St. Mary at Slapton, Devon, which he augmented in 1386 and again in 1389. SIR GUY DE BRYAN, Lord Bryan, died 17 August 1390, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 274-275, 286-287. Archaeologia 14 (1803): 143-153. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 63-65 (sub Bryan). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Debrett's Baronetage of England 1 (1815): 371-374 (sub Carew). Nicolas Controversy between Scrope & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 245-255 (biog. of Sir Guy Bryan). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 227-228. Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 12 (1839): 18-22. Beltz Mems. of the Order of the Garter (1841): clii. Hutchins Hist. & Antiq. of Dorset 1 (1861): 448 (Bryan ped); 3 (1868): 291 (Montagu ped.). Worthy Ashburton & its Neighbourhood (1875): 149-150,158. Daniel-Tyssen Royal Charters & Hist. Does. Rel. the Town & County of Carmarthen (1878): 48, footnote 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon 1531, 1564 & 1620 (1895): 133-136 (Carew ped.). Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 369 (Hugh de Ferrers styled "kinsman" by Guy de Bryan). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 3 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 17) (1902): 182. Owen Old Pembroke Fams. (1902): 81-84. Wrodesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 99, 178, 228, 236-237. VCH Dorset 2 (1908): 73-79. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 3rd Ser. 3 (1911): 132, 137, 191, 210-211. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 150-151. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 275; 4 (1912): 92-102, 249. C.P. 2 (1912): 201, footnote b (sub Bohun), 361-362 (sub Bryan); 4 (1916): 271-274 (sub Despenser), 325; 5 (1926): 463-464 (sub Fitzpayn); 11 (1949): 388, footnote b (sub Salisbury); 14 (1998): 118 (sub Bryan). Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 2 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. 1939) (1939): 392, 400. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffensis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 810. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 102:1. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Haines Cal. Reg. of Wolstan de Bransford Bishop of Worcester (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 4) (1966): 79. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.7233. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120, 129-153. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 28. Edington Reg. of William Edington Bishop of Winchester 1346-1366 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 7) (1986): 46; 2 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 8) (1987): 7, 23, 44. Emery Greater Medieval Houses of England & Wales 3 (2006): 687. National Archives, C 241/119/32 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Joan de Carew, by Guy de Bryan, KG.:
      a. ELIZABETH DE BRYAN, married ROBERT FITZ PAYN, Knt., of Stogursey, Somerset [see CODNOR 11.ii].
      b. MARGARET DE BRYAN, married HUGH DE COURTENAY, Knt., 3td Lord Courtenay [see COURTENAY 7.i.a].”