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Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1357
Death Date: 1419-12-05

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Camoys, Maud ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 11th Earl of Devon

Titles

  • 11th Earl of Devon
    Assumed: 1377-05-02
    Vacated: 1419-12-05
  • 4th Baron Courtenay
    Assumed: 1377-05-02
    Vacated: 1419-12-05

Details of Offices

Began Ended
JP, Devon 1377/8
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1378/9 1380
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1379/80 1384
JP, Devon 1380 1384
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1381/2
JP, Cornwall 1381/2
Admiral of the West, England 1383 -11 -13 1384/5 -01 -29
Marshall of England, England 1384 1385
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1385
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1385
JP, Cornwall 1385
Lieut, Duchy of Lancaster 1386 -6
JP, Cornwall 1387 1388
JP, Devon 1387
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1388
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1391
JP, Cornwall 1391
JP, Devon 1391
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1391/2
PC, England 1395
JP, Devon 1399/1400 1401
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1402 1403
JP, Devon 1404/5 1408
JP, Devon 1412/13 1415
JP, Devon 1418

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Buckinghamshire: Waddesdon Manor
  • Devon: Okehampton Honour & Manor; Plympton Castle & Honour
  • Somerset: Hinton Manor

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance? - Tiverton Castle, Tiverton, Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrels Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Colcombe Castle Devon Private Residence
Okehampton Castle Devon Private Residence
Tiverton Castle Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III [1327–77]. 16 vols. London: HMSO, 1891--1916
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II [1377–99]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1895--1905
  • Cherry, Bridget, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Devon. London: Penguin Books, 1989
  • Cherry, Martin. 'The Courtenay Earls of Devon: The Formation and Disintegration of a Late Medieval Aristocratic Affinity'. Southern History 1 (1979): 71-97.
  • Cherry, Martin. ‘The Liveried Personnel of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 1384-5, Part I’. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 35:4 (1983): 151-159.
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.