Sir Thomas DE COURTENAY

Abt 1309 - 1337  (~ 28 years)

• Name	Thomas DE COURTENAY
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	Abt 1309	Of, Wotton, Devon, England
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	MB49-XVM
  TitleOfNobility	[1]
  	Sir Knight
  _UID	122E8F18AC184274840BF6C0724F9DF8FC74
  Burial	1337
  Death	21 Aug 1337	Woodhuish, Devon, England
  Person ID	I3801	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Earl Hugh DE COURTENAY, II,   b. 14 Sep 1273, Okehampton, Devonshire, England d. 23 Dec 1340, Exeter, Devonshire, England (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Agnes ST. JOHN,   b. Abt 1279, Basing, Hamptonshire, England d. 11 Jun 1345, Exeter, Devonshire, England (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	1292
  Family ID	F1786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Muriel De MOELS,   b. 1322, Of Cadbury, Mapperton, Somersetshire, England d. 12 Aug 1369, Dunterton, Devon, England (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1343	Of Cadbury, Mapperton, Somersetshire, England
  Children	1. Muriel COURTENAY,   b. 1323, Of Woodhuish, , Devonshire, England d. Bef 12 Aug 1369, France (Age 46 years)   2. Hugh De COURTENAY,   b. Abt 1338, Devon, England, d. Abt 1369, Sp (Age ~ 31 years)   3. John de COURTENAY,   b. Abt 1347, Exeter, Devon, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. Margaret COURTENAY,   b. Abt 1352, Exeter, Devonshire, England d. Bef 8 Dec 1422, Halton, Somersetshire, England (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F1860	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Thomas Courtenay (1315-1356) of Wootton Courtenay in Somerset, was a knight and an English military commander against the French during the Hundred Years' War, who died in the year of the Battle of Poitiers. Family He was the fourth son of Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1276-1340), of Tiverton Castle in Devon, by his wife Agnes de Saint John, daughter of John Saint John of Basing, Hampshire. At some time before 27 August 1337 he married a great heiress, Muriel de Moels (1322-1369), the elder of the two daughters and co-heiresses of John Moels, 4th Baron Moels, feudal baron of North Cadbury in Somerset, by his wife Joan Lovel, daughter of Richard Lovel of Castle Cary. Having married this daughter and heiress of a tenant-in-chief without royal licence, he received a royal pardon on 27 August 1337. His wife's share of her paternal inheritance included the manors of King's Carswell and Dunterton in Devon, and Blackford, Holton and Lattiford in Somerset. Courtenay had one son and two daughters by his wife. Their only son and heir was Hugh, who died childless in 1369, leaving his two sisters, Muriel and Margaret, as co-heiresses. Muriel married Sir John Dynham (1318-1383), of Hartland and of Nutwell in Devon, feudal baron of Cardinham in Cornwall. Her son was Sir John Dinham (1359-1428), ancestor of John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham (1433-1501), KG. Muriel brought King's Carswell into the Dynham family and it became one of their seats. The other sister, Margaret, married Sir Thomas Peverell, from a cadet branch of Peverell of Sampford Peverell in Devon, whose only daughter and sole heiress was Eleanor Peverell, wife of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford. Courtenay died in 1356, the date of the Battle of Poitiers, having 10 years earlier in 1346 petitioned the Pope for an indult for plenary remission at the hour of death. Landholdings His landholdings increased greatly after inheritances from his marriage of many lands of the feudal barony of North Cadbury. His landholdings included, in Devon: Woodhuish, in the parish of Brixham; Kings Carswell; Dunterton; Plymtree, which he purchased and was recorded as lord of the manor in 1345; and Sutton Lucy and Lucyhays, in Colyton hundred. In Somerset he held Wootton Courtenay, Blackford, Holton, Lattiford, Maperton (to which church he presented in 1343 and 1351), South Cadbury (to which church he presented in 1351), and Cricket Malherbie (to which church he presented in 1340 and 1349). He also held Over Wallop, Hampshire and Over Worton, Oxfordshire.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 9 Dec 2022), entry for Thomas DE COURTENAY, person ID MB49-XVM. (Reliability: 3).