COURTENAY LINE per Charles Worthy's "digression"


1 - Atho, built a castle at Courtenay, Gatenois, France

2 - son
3 - Milo, elder son, Lord of Courtenay
4 - [unproven that he was Milo's son] - Reginald de Courtenay, d 27 Sep 1194
m1 - unknown
5 - William de Courtenay, elder son, d bef 1209
m Avis D'Aincourt, d 31 Jul 1209
6 - Robert, died at his Manor of Iwerne Courtenay, County Dorset, 26 Jul 1242, bur Ford Abbey.
m Mary de Redvers, of Vernon; many years a widow; Abbess of Quarr, in the Isle of Wight; Abbess of Pratelles, in Normandy
7 - John Courtenay, eldest son, succeeded to the Barony of Okehampton; d 1273, bur Ford Abbey
m Isabella, dau of Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford
8 - Sir Hugh Courtenay, Knight, heir, b1250; bur Cowick, Feb 129I
m Eleanor, dau of Hugh De Spencer; she died in 1238
9 - Hugh de Courtenay, eldest son, b1275, succeeded to the Barony of Okehampton; eventually made Earl of Devon, died in 1340
m Agnes, daughter of Lord St. John
10 - four sons and two daughters
10 - John , eldest son, Abbot of Tavistock from1334, died1349
10 - the second son Sir Hugh Courtenay, succeeded to the earldom; died 1377 married Margaret de Bohun, dau of Humphry, Earl of Hereford, and granddau of King Edward I
11 - eldest son, Sir Hugh Courtenay, born 1327, died bef 1377
12 - Hugh - only son, died bef 1377 m Matilda Plantagenet
11 - William, became Archbishop of Canterbury.
11 - Sir Peter, was Constable of Windsor, grand standard bearer, and chamberlain; died 1405, bur Exeter Cathedral
11 - sixth son, Sir Philip Courtenay, was seated at Powderham
11 - large family
11 - Edward Courtenay, of Godlington, died bef 1377
12 - Edward Courtenay, b 1357, became Earl 1377; known as the "blind earl," d 1419
13 - Edward, knighted 1399, d bef 1419
m Eleanor, second dau of Roger Mortimer, died childless
13 - Hugh, b 1389, succeeded to the earldom 5 Dec1419
m a daughter of the Lord Talbot
14 - Thomas, Earl of Devon, died at the Abbey of Abingdon, believed of poison, 3 Feb I458
m 1422 Margaret Beaufort
15 - Thomas, eldest son, earl for three years; prisoner at Towton, attainted, executed
15 - Henry, beheaded at Salisbury 4 Mar1466.
15 - John, youngest son, regained the earldom, but died at Tewkesbury 14 May 1471

#12 Edw m2 Matilda, daughter of Thomas Lord Camoys; she died in 1467

12 - Sir Hugh Courtenay, of Haccombe and Boconnoc
13 - ?
14 - Edward - created Earl of Devon by patent 26 Oct 1485
m his cousin, Elizabeth, dau of Sir Philip Courtenay of Molland
15 - Sir William Courtenay, Knight of the Bath, d spring 1511 at Greenwich
m Katherine Plantagenet, dau of King Edward IV, youngest sister of Elizabeth, King Henry's queen.
16 - Henry, made Marquessate of Exeter 18 Jun 1525; beheaded 9 Jun I539
17 - Edward Courtenay, b 1527, Earl of Devon 1553, d Padua 4 Oct 1556
16 - Margaret, b c 1498; died before her husband,
m Henry, Lord Herbert, eldest son of Chas Somerset, Earl of Worcester
13 - Elizabeth first dau m John Tretherffe - their GRANDSON Tho had
1 - dau Eliz who m John Vivian & had son John Vivian
2 - Margaret, m1 Edward Courtenay, of Wotton, m2 Richard Buller of Tregarrick
13 - Isabell m Wm Mohun of Hall
13 - Maud m Sir John Arundell
13 - Florence m John Trelawny 1468
7 - son
7 - Avis
m John Neville
6 - William
6 - Reginald
5 - Robert de Courtenay, younger son, d 1209 or before
m Alice de Romele, dau of the north country lord of Skipton, Sheriff of Cumberland

(4) Reginald de Courtenay came to England in 1152 and
m2 - Matilda, younger dau of Maud, Baroness of Oakhampton

3 - Josceline, younger son, Count of Edessa