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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1475 in Tiverton, Devon.
• Titel: Earl of Devon
• Hij is overleden op 9 juni 1511 in Greenwich, Kent, hij was toen 36 jaar oud.

  Died from Pleurisy

• Hij is begraven juni 1511 in Blackfriars, Ludgate, City of London, Middlesex.
• Een kind van Edward COURTENAY
• Een kind van Edward COURTENAY en Elizabeth COURTENAY

Gezin van William COURTENAY

Hij is getrouwd met Katherine of YORK.

Zij zijn getrouwd oktober 1495 te Westminster, Middlesex, hij was toen 20 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Henry COURTENAY  1498-???? 
2. Edward COURTENAY  1497-1502
3. Margaret COURTENAY  1500-1520

Notities over William COURTENAY

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.

He was the son of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon by his wife Elizabeth Courtenay, daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay (b. 1445) of Molland, 2nd son of Sir Philip Courtenay (18 January 1404 - 16 December 1463) of Powderham by Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (d. 1449). William's parents were thus distant cousins, sharing a common descent from Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (1303-1377).

William was a supporter of King Henry VII (1485-1509), the first of the Tudors, who made him a Knight Bachelor on 25 November 1487, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. He was a Captain in the royal army and assisted his father in the defeat of the pretender Perkin Warbeck at the siege of Exeter in 1497, which secured finally the Tudor succession.

However William fell out of favour. King Henry VII discovered that he had joined in the conspiracy to crown Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (d.1513), the last Yorkist claimant. For his complicity he was attainted and imprisoned in the Tower of London in February 1504, and so made incapable of inheritance.

Released from prison by Henry VIII (1509-1547), Courtenay was pardoned and restored to his rights and privileges, as a sword bearer at the coronation on 24 June 1509. It is a matter of debate as to whether he lived long enough to have been formally restored in his honours. Certain sources however maintain that he assumed the full titles and lands of the earldom on 10 May 1511, after jousting in a tournament with the king and his cousin Sir Thomas Knyvett and Sir William Nevill.

Marriage and progeny
He married Catherine of York the sixth daughter of King Edward IV by Elizabeth Woodville. William and Catherine had three children:
Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter (c. 1496 - 9 January 1539) married (1) Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle and (2) Gertrude Blount.
Lady Margaret Courtenay (c. 1499 - before 1526) married Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester.
Edward Courtenay (1497 - 12 July 1502)

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. The effigy is only about 3 ft in length, much smaller than usual for an adult. The face and head was renewed in 1907, and is said to have been based on the sculptor's own infant daughter. Despite this, the effigy is incorrect-Margaret, as known by records, was still alive and serving Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII, on 2 July 1520.

Death and burial
He died on 9 June 1511 of pleurisy and was buried by a royal warrant at Blackfriars, London.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Courtenay,_1st_Earl_of_Devon

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