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7 de mar. de 2011 · William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon was born on 19 April 1807. 1 He was the son of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon and Henrietta Leslie Pepys. 1 He was baptised on 3 July 1807. He married Lady Elizabeth Fortescue, daughter of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue and Hester Grenville, on 27 December 1830. 1 He died on 18 November 1888 at age 81. 1 He was b
Today in 1511 William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, died at Greenwich. He died of pleurisy and was buried at Blackfriars, London, with the honours due to him an earl, even though he hadn’t been officially invested as an earl. William Courtenay was Henry VIII’s uncle, having married Katherine, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
Sir William Courtenay was educated at Westminster School and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1731 with a Master of Arts. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Courtenay and de jure to the title of 7th Earl of Devon on 10 October 1735. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Magdalen College in 1739.
Sir Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon, 1st Baron Stafford of Southwick ( ca. 1439 [a] – 17 August 1469) [2] was a dominant magnate in South West England in the mid-15th century, and a participant in the Wars of the Roses. A distant relative of the Earls of Stafford, Humphrey Stafford became the greatest landowner in the county of Dorset ...
Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, was the second and only surviving son of Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, and his second wife, Gertrude (née Blount). Little is known about his early life, but we know that he spent some of his early childhood in the household of Mary Tudor. Dowager Queen of France. After she died in 1533, however, he ...
An effigy identified by tradition as "little choke-a-bone", Margaret Courtenay (d. 1512), an infant daughter of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1475–1511) by his wife Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527), the sixth daughter of King Edward IV (1461–1483) exists in Colyton Church in Devon.
Hace 3 días · Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon. The formidable King Henry VIII accused his first cousin Henry Courtenay of entering into a conspiracy with the exiled Reginald Pole, who had spoken out publicly against Henry's policies. In November, 1538, Henry, his wife Gertrude and the young Edward, then aged around 11, were arrested and imprisoned in the Tower.
