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Personal data Henry "Of Devon" Courtenay 

• Nickname is Of Devon.
• He was born in the year 1496 in Devon, England.
• (MARR) June 1515: Make/Maka: Elizabeth Grey.
• He died on January 9, 1539 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England, he was 43 years old.
• A child of William 1st Earl of Devon and Catherine York

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Courtenay,_1st_Marquess_of_Exeterof Exeter, KG, PC (c. 1496–January 9, 1539) was the eldest son of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon and Catherine of York. His maternal grandparents were Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville.und Tudor, Duke of Somerset and Katherine Tudor. But in 1504, William Courtenay was accused of maintaining correspondence with Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, the leading Yorkist claimant to the throne, and Henry VII of England had him incarcerated in the Tower of London. Henry had lost his chances at inheriting the Earldom of Devon.d succeeded to the throne and released William Courtenay from the Tower. On June 24, 1509, William took part in the coronation of Henry VIII. He carried the sword for his royal nephew. He enjoyed some favor with Henry VIII who created him Earl of Devon on May 10, 1511. However William died on June 9, 1511. Henry Courtenay was his heir. but Henry was allowed to succeed his father as the Earl of Devon. In 1512, the attainder was fully removed and Henry was acknowledged as the proper heir of his paternal grandfather and inheritor of his lands and rights. His first cousin Henry VIII was at the time involved in the War of the League of Cambrai against Louis XII of France. The new Earl of Devon experienced his first battles in 1513 as second captain of a man of war.s meeting with Francis I of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold (June 7 – June 24, 1520). replaced him as a Knight of the Garter and received part of his lands and properties as a gift from Henry VIII. He was granted the administrations of the vacant Duchies of Exeter, Somerset and Cornwall over the following two years. I of France had lost the Battle of Pavia and was under the captivety of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Henry VIII was allied with his nephew-by-marriage but sent the new Marquess of Exeter to secure an agreement with Regent Louise of Savoy and promise the assistance of Henry VIII in negotiations for the return of Francis.cceedings for the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He was only second to the King at the Privy Council when Thomas Cardinal Wolsey was charged with treason. He signed the documents for his prosecution. His signature is also present in the formal papers requesting the annulment from Pope Clement VII. He served as a commissioner for the formal deposition of Catherine in 1533.s granted stewardship over several monasteries in 1535. Henry VIII was already preparing the Dissolution of the Monasteries and had placed his favored cousin in a key position for this process. Exeter was also a commissioner in the trial of Anne Boleyn in 1536. She was the second wife of Henry VIII and had been accused of adultery, incest and high treason.Suffolk were sent in Yorkshire to face the Pilgrimage of Grace, a Roman Catholic uprising that broke out on October 15, 1536. Exeter was not able to achieve victory and had to retreat to Devonshire. He was however Lord Steward during the trial of Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy for treason in 1537.as administering most of Western England in his own name and that of King Henry VIII. He also was however a political rival of Thomas Cromwell and the two men reportedly had little sympathy for each other. death. Cromwell used these connections to point suspicion at Exeter's loyalties.ges and called the population to revolt -- the stated demand was to have Henry VIII name Exeter his Heir Apparent, thus disinheriting his own children.nce with the self-exiled Reginald Cardinal Pole. Sir Geoffrey Pole, younger brother of the Cardinal, came to London with the information that a Roman Catholic conspiracy was preparing a new uprising. Both Poles were accused as heading this conspiracy and Cromwell convinced Henry VIII that Exeter was part of it.sted and incarcerated at the Tower of London. On December 3, 1538, Exeter was put on trial in Westminster Hall. There was little evidence for his involvement in the so-called Exeter Conspiracy. But his correspondence with Cardinal Pole ensured his conviction for treason. He was executed by decapitation on January 9, 1539.0 and maintained a friendship with Princess Mary Tudor for the rest of her life. Their son was released on August 3, 1553 on the orders of Mary who was by then Queen Regnant.dren Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney.sle in her right in 1513. Elizabeth had refused to marry him when she came of age. She instead married Henry Courtenay. The Viscountcy was thus in dispute until 1523. The marriage resulted in no children and Henry had no right to the Viscountcy after her early death.y and his first wife Elisabeth Say. They were parents to two children, Henry who died young and Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (c. 1527 – September 18, 1556).enayaded) mily ID F00000701 Group Sheet2 Gertrude Blount, b. Abt 1504 Sheetrine of York, daughter of Edward IV, King of England. In December 1512 he obtained a reversal of his father's attainder whereby he succeeded to the Earldom of Devon. After June 1515, he married Elizabeth Grey, suo jure Baroness L'Isle, but she died not long afterwards; and, on 25 October 1519, he married Gertrude Blount. ril 1521 he was nominted Knight of The Garter and was installed on 9 June. In April 1522 he was appointed Keeper of Burling Park; in May 1523 High Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall and Warden of the Stannaries and, in 1525, Constable of Windsor Castle. utenant of the Order of the Garter and, in June 1528, Seneschal of the Duchy of Cornwall. He supported King Henry VIII in his attempt to obtain a divorce, signing the letter to Pope Clement VII to that effect, being a Commissioner in 1533 for Queen Catherine's deposition, and was rewarded with the Stewardship of numerous Abbeys and Priories in the West of England. ne Boleyn; assisted in suppressing the rebellion called the Pilgrimage of Grace; and, on 15 May 1537, acted as High Steward at the trial of the Lrds Darcy and Hussey for their share therein. The measures of Cromwell, the Vicar General, became so obnoxious to him that he drifted into a treasonable conspiracy with the Pole family, endeavouring to raise the men of Devon and Cornwall, and being taken prisoner was, on 3 December 1538, tried by his Peers in Westminster Hall. Found guilty, on 9 January 1539, he was beheaded on Tower Hill with Lord Montagu and Sir Edward Nevill. Having been attainted, the Earldom became forfeited.abeyant, forfeited and extinct peerages of the British Empire, London, 1866, Burke, Sir Bernard, Reference: 142 Knightage, London, 1938, Reference: Page 803

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