William Courtenay (died 1557)

Sir William Courtenay (c. 1529 – 29 September 1557) was a landowner in Devon. He was the son of George Courtenay (died 1533), who predeceased his own father, by his wife Catherine St Ledger, daughter of Sir George St Ledger of Annery. He succeeded his grandfather Sir William Courtenay (1477–1535), of Powderham in 1535. He was knighted in 1553 and elected to Parliament for Plympton in 1555.[1]

On 28 Nov 1545, he married Elizabeth Paulet (c. 1536 – 4 Nov. 1576), daughter to John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, by whom he had two children:[2][3][4] Jane, born 1551, and his heir, William (1553 – 24 June 1630). He took part in the battle of St. Quentin in August 1557 in Picardy, France, and died on 29 September 1557.[5][lower-alpha 1]

In 1831, a decision of the House of Lords determined that he had succeeded his sixth cousin once removed (Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon) as de jure 2nd Earl of Devon in 1556.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Several sources state that he was killed at St. Quentin and/or give his date of death as 18 August 1557,[1][2][6] but the later Houses of Parliament biography asserts that he was neither killed, nor probably wounded there.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sir William Courtenay, de jure 2nd Earl of Devon". Cracroft's Peerage. Cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Sir William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 1529 - 1557". Family Search: Community Trees. Europe: Royal and Noble Houses of Europe. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Colby, Frederic Thomas, ed. (1872). "The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620". The Publications of the Harleian Society. London: Harleian Society. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. III (2nd ed.). p. 311.
  5. 1 2 A. D. K., Hawkyard. "COURTENAY, Sir William II (1529/30-57), of Powderham, Devon and London". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  6. ↑ Vivian, J. L. (1895). The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, to 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian. Exeter: H.S. Eland.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Courtenay		 Earl of Devon
de jure
1556 – 1557		 Succeeded by
William Courtenay
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