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Name: Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon
Sex: M
Death: 18 Aug 1557 in St Quintin, France ^d

Parents:

Father:
George COURTENAY Death: Before 1535

Mother:

Catherine St LEGER

Family:
Marriage:

Elizabeth PAULET on Abt 28 Nov 1545 .^m1
Elizabeth PAULET Death: 4 Nov 1576

Children:

Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon Birth: Abt 1553 Death: 24 Jun 1630

Bibliography

Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 04 Dacre-Dysart. London: St Catherine Press, 1916. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 4 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo04byucoka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP IV [Ap][p0-9].*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

parents:: [Ref: CP IV p332],
father:: [Ref: CP IV p335]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: CP IV p333],
place:: [Ref: CP IV p333]

Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth PAULET

date:: lic 28 Nov 1545 [Ref: CP IV p332],
names:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p328],
child:: [Ref: CP IV p333]

Research Notes:
de jure 12th Earl of Devon, of Earldom cr 1335 [Ref: CP IV p332]
Earl of Devon [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p328]

of Powderham, co Devon [Ref: CP IV p332]

heir of his father [Ref: CP IV p332]
heir male of his distant cousin 11th Earl [Ref: CP IV p332]
heir of his grandfather in the Powderham estate [Ref: CP IV p332]

Pedigree of Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon
                                                                /-----Sir Hugh De COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon
                                                       /-----Sir Philip COURTENAY
                                                      |         \-----Margaret De BOHUN
                                              /-----Sir John COURTENAY
                                             |        |         /-----Sir Thomas WAKE
                                             |         \-----Anne WAKE
                                             |                  \-----Alice PATSHULL
                                     /-----Sir Philip COURTENAY
                                    |        |                  /-----Thomas CHAMPERNOUN
                                    |        |         /-----Sir Richard CHAMPERNOUN
                                    |        |        |         \-----Eleanor De ROHART
                                    |         \-----Joan CHAMPERNOUN
                                    |                 |         /-----Thomas ASTLEY, Lord Astley
                                    |                  \-----Alice De ASTLEY
                                    |                           \-----Elizabeth De BEAUCHAMP
                            /-----Sir William COURTENAY
                           |        |                           /-----Walter HUNGERFORD
                           |        |                  /-----Sir Thomas HUNGERFORD
                           |        |                 |         \-----Elizabeth FITZJOHN
                           |        |         /-----Sir Walter HUNGERFORD, K.G., Lord Hungerford
                           |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Edmund HUSSEY
                           |        |        |         \-----Joan HUSSEY
                           |         \-----Elizabeth HUNGERFORD
                           |                 |                  /-----Sir Hugh PEVERELL
                           |                 |         /-----Sir Thomas PEVERELL
                           |                 |        |         \-----Margaret COBHAM
                           |                  \-----Catherine PEVERELL
                           |                          |         /-----Sir Thomas De COURTENAY
                           |                           \-----Margaret COURTENAY
                           |                                    \-----Muriel De MOELS
                   /-----Sir William COURTENAY
                  |        |                                    /-----Sir Nicholas De BONVILLE
                  |        |                           /-----Sir William BONVILLE
                  |        |                          |         \-----Joan De CHAMPERNON
                  |        |                  /-----Sir John BONVYLE
                  |        |                 |        |         /-----Sir William DAUMARLE
                  |        |                 |         \-----Margaret DAUMARLE
                  |        |                 |                  \-----Agnes De MERIET
                  |        |         /-----William BONVILLE, K.G., Lord Bonville
                  |        |        |        |                  /-----Sir Henry FITZ ROGER
                  |        |        |        |         /-----John FITZ ROGER, Lord Of Chewton
                  |        |        |        |        |         \-----Elizabeth De HOLAND
                  |        |        |         \-----Elizabeth FITZ ROGER
                  |        |        |                  \-----Alice
                  |         \-----Margaret BONVILLE
                  |                 |                           /-----Roger De GREY, Lord Grey Of Ruthin
                  |                 |                  /-----Sir Reynold De GREY, Lord Grey Of Ruthin
                  |                 |                 |         \-----Elizabeth De HASTINGS
                  |                 |         /-----Reynold De GREY, Lord Grey Of Ruthin
                  |                 |        |        |         /-----John Le STRANGE, Lord Strange
                  |                 |        |         \-----Alinore LESTRANGE
                  |                 |        |                  \-----Ankaret BUTLER
                  |                  \-----Margaret GREY
                  |                          |                  /-----William De ROS, Lord Ros Of Helmsley
                  |                          |         /-----Thomas De ROS, Lord Ros Of Helmsley
                  |                          |        |         \-----Margery De BADLESMERE
                  |                           \-----Margaret De ROOS
                  |                                   |         /-----Sir Ralph De STAFFORD, K.G., Earl Of Stafford
                  |                                    \-----Beatrice STAFFORD
                  |                                             \-----Margaret De AUDLEY, Baroness Audley
          /-----Sir William COURTENAY
         |        |         /-----John CHENEY
         |         \-----Cicely CHENEY
/-----George COURTENAY
|         \-----Margaret EDGCOMBE
Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon
|         /-----Sir George St LEGER
\-----Catherine St LEGER

Descendants of Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon

1. Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon m. Elizabeth PAULET

m. Elizabeth PAULET father: Sir John PAULET, Marquess of Winchester mother: Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY

2+ Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon m1. Elizabeth SYDENHAM m2. Elizabeth MANNERS

2nd generation

2. Sir William COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon m1. Elizabeth SYDENHAM m2. Elizabeth MANNERS

m. Elizabeth SYDENHAM father: Sir George SYDENHAM mother: Elizabeth HALES

3+ Francis COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon m1. Mary POLE m2. Elizabeth SEYMOUR

m. Elizabeth MANNERS father: Henry MANNERS, Earl Of Rutland mother: Margaret NEVILLE

3rd generation

3. Francis COURTENAY, Earl Of Devon m1. Mary POLE m2. Elizabeth SEYMOUR

m. Mary POLE father: Sir William POLE mother: Maria PERIAM

m. Elizabeth SEYMOUR father: Sir Edward SEYMOUR mother: Dorothy KILLIGREW