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Courtenay, Edward ( - 1509)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: n.d.
Death Date: 1509-05-28

Notes

Pardoned 6 Sept. 1472 (due to father’s Lancastrian loyalties); revolted against Richard III & fled to Brittany; attainted 1484; restored to honours 1485

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Courtenay, Elizabeth ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 17th Earl of Devon

Titles

  • 17th Earl of Devon
    Assumed: 1485-10-26
    Vacated: 1509-05-28
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1485-08-07
    Vacated: 1509-05-28
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1494-04

General Lands Note

Restored to lands (60 manors, 8 boroughs, 9 hundreds) held by Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon, 26 Oct. 1485

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Sheriff, Devon 1478 -11 -5 1479 -11 -5
JP, Cornwall 1483
JP, Cornwall 1485 1488
JP, Somerset 1485 1488
Constable, Cornwall 1485/6 -3 -1 1509 -05 -28
Keeper, Cornwall 1485/6 -3 -1 1509 -05 -28
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1486/7
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1486/7
JP, Devon 1486/7
Commissioner of Musters, Devon 1488
Commissioner of Musters, Cornwall 1488
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1490
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1490
JP, Somerset 1491
JP, Devon 1491 1492
JP, Cornwall 1492 1498
JP, Somerset 1492/3 1495
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Nottinghamshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Buckinghamshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cambridgeshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Derbyshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hertfordshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Huntingdonshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Leicestershire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Lincolnshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Northamptonshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Rutland 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Staffordshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Warwickshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Yorkshire 1493
JP, Staffordshire 1493
JP, Worcestershire 1493
JP, Buckinghamshire 1493
JP, Cambridgeshire 1493
JP, Derbyshire 1493
JP, Hertfordshire 1493
JP, Huntingdonshire 1493
JP, Leicestershire 1493
JP, Lincolnshire 1493
JP, Nottinghamshire 1493
JP, Northamptonshire 1493
JP, Oxfordshire 1493
JP, Rutland 1493
JP, Warwickshire 1493
JP, Yorkshire 1493
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Middlesex 1493/4
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, London Diocese 1493/4
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Cornwall 1494
JP, Devon 1494 1496
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1497
JP, Somerset 1497/8 1500
JP, Devon 1501 1502
JP, Somerset 1502 1503
JP, Cornwall 1502
JP, Devon 1504
JP, Cornwall 1504
JP, Somerset 1504/5 1508
JP, Cornwall 1506

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cornwall: Boconnoc Manor
    Patrimony; this manor and twelve others
  • Devon: Aylesbeare Manor; Chulmleigh Borough; Colaton Borough, Castle & Hundred; East & West Budleigh Hundred; Exminster Hundred & Manor; Kenn Borough; Musbury Manor; Okehampton Honour; Plympton Castle, Honour & Hundred; Sampford Courtney Manor
  • Dorset
  • Hampshire
  • Somerset: Puriton Manor; Wrenmore Farm in Stockland Lovel Manor
    Acquired: 1485-10-26
    These manors and other lands restored with creation to title

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrels
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Earl of Devon's Minstrels
Performance - Guildhall, Bodmin, Cornwall Earl of Devon's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Devon's Minstrels Courtenay, Edward (0 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrels Courtenay, Edward (0 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Devon's Minstrels Courtenay, Edward (0 - 1509) 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 IV, Edward V, Richard III [1476--85]. London: HMSO, 1901
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • 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.
  • Page, William, and R.W. Dunning, eds. The Victoria History of the County of Somerset. 4 vols. London; Oxford: Constable [vols 1--2]; Oxford UP [vols 3--8], 1906--12 [vols 1--2]; 1974--2004 [vols 3--8]
  • Westcott, Margaret. 'Katherine Courtenay, Countess of Devon, 1479--1527.'. Devon: U of Exeter P, 1992 Tudor and Stuart Devon: The Common Estate and Government. Essays presented to Joyce Youings 13--38.