Courtenay, Hugh de (1389 - 1422)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 3
Properties - 6
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Venues - 5
Bibliographic Sources - 6
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Born / Died

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

Siblings

Male

Courtenay, Edward (1388 - 1418)

Female

Courtenay, Elizabeth ( - 1471)

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

Offspring

From Talbot, Anne ( - 1440/1)

  1. Male offspring: Courtenay, Thomas de (1414 - 1458) (patron)

Primary Title

Knight

Titles

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

Details of Offices

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

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Devon: Okehampton & Plymouth Honours

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1416-1416 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

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. Public Record Office Lists and Indexes 9. London: HMSO, 1898.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)