Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 2
Properties - 6
Total events naming patron - 6
Troupes - 2
Venues - 3
Bibliographic Sources - 7
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Born / Died

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

Siblings

Male

Courtenay, Hugh (1358 - 1425)

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Offspring

From Camoys, Maud ( - )

  1. Male offspring: Courtenay, Edward (1388 - 1418)
  2. Male offspring: Courtenay, Hugh de (1389 - 1422) (patron)
  3. Female offspring: Courtenay, Elizabeth (d. 1471)

Primary Title

11th Earl of Devon

Titles

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

Details of Offices

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

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

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

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1416-1416 Exeter (Unknown), Exeter , Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance 1417-1417 Exeter (Unknown), Exeter , Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance 1418-1418 Exeter (Unknown), Exeter , Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance 1418-1419 Exeter (Unknown), Exeter , Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance 1418-1419 Exeter (Unknown), Exeter , Exeter (city-county) in Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrel/s
Performance? 1389-1390 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 5
Earl of Devon's Minstrels Courtenay, Edward de (1357 - 1419) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Venue 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. The Buildings of England. 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. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)