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William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1475 – 9 June 1511), feudal baron of Okehampton and feudal baron of Plympton, was a member of the leading noble family of Devon. His principal seat was Tiverton Castle, Devon with further residences at Okehampton Castle and Colcombe Castle, also in that county.
Sir William Courtenay (1477 – November 1535) "The Great", of Powderham in Devon, was a leading member of the Devon gentry and a courtier of King Henry VIII having been from September 1512 one of the king's Esquires of the Body.
16 de ene. de 2019 · William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1475 – 9 June 1511) was the son of Sir Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon and Elizabeth Courtenay. He married Catherine of York the sixth daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville.
- England
- circa 1475
- "William /Courtenay/ (3rd creation)"
- Devon, England, United Kingdom
9 de jun. de 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 9th June 1511, in the reign of Henry VIII, William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, died of pleurisy at Greenwich. He was buried at Blackfriars, London, with the honours due an earl, even though he hadn't been officially invested yet.
When William Courtenay 1st Earl Of Devon was born in 1475, in Devon, England, his father, Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Courtenay, was 20. He married Catherine of York Countess of Devon in October 1495, in London, Middlesex, England.
- Male
- Catherine of York Countess of Devon
He was one of the deputy lieutenants appointed by the Privy Council to ‘advise’ the young lord lieutenant of Devon, the Earl of Bath, who was under the thumb of his ex-tutor Thomas Hinson. Bath’s opinion of Courtenay is interesting:
Close kinsmen and powerful allies of the Plantagenet kings, especially Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, the Earls of Devon were treated with suspicion by the Tudors, perhaps unfairly, partly because William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1475–1511), had married Princess Catherine of York, a younger daughter of King ...
