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Courtenay, Hugh de (1389 - 1422)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1389
Death Date: 1422-06-16

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Talbot, Anne ( - 1440/1)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union may have produced other children, who predeceased father

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • 12th Earl of Devon
    Assumed: 1419-12-05
    Vacated: 1422-06-16
  • 5th Baron Courtenay
    Assumed: 1419-12-05
    Vacated: 1422-06-16
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1399-10-13
    Vacated: 1422-06-16

Details of Offices

Began Ended
JP, Devon 1399/1400 1401
JP, Devon 1404/5 1406
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1418
Sheriff, Devon 1418 -11 -4 1419 -11 -23
JP, Devon 1420
JP, Devon 1421/2

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Devon: Okehampton & Plymouth Honours

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Sir Hugh de Courtenay's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Hugh de Courtenay's Minstrel/s Courtenay, Hugh de (1389 - 1422) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

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

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV [1399–1413]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1903--9
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910--11
  • Cherry, Martin. 'The Courtenay Earls of Devon: The Formation and Disintegration of a Late Medieval Aristocratic Affinity'. Southern History 1 (1979): 71-97.
  • 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
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.