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The Courtenay family of Tremere (now Tremore in the parish of
Lanivet
Lanivet ( kw, Lanneves) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately southwest of Bodmin, and before the Bodmin by-pass was built, the A30 road between London and Land's End passed ...
, Cornwall) was a
cadet line of the prominent
Courtenay family
The House of Courtenay is a medieval noble house, with branches in France, England and the Holy Land. One branch of the Courtenays became a Royal House of the Capetian Dynasty, cousins of the Bourbons and the Valois, and achieved the title ...
seated at
Powderham in Devon, itself a cadet line of the Courtenay
Earls of Devon
Earl of Devon was created several times in the English peerage, and was possessed first (after the Norman Conquest of 1066) by the de Redvers (''alias'' de Reviers, Revieres, etc.) family, and later by the Courtenay family. It is not to be con ...
of
Tiverton Castle
Tiverton Castle is the remains of a medieval castle dismantled after the Civil War and thereafter converted in the 17th century into a country house. It occupies a defensive position above the banks of the River Exe at Tiverton in Devon.
Desc ...
,
feudal barons of Plympton and
feudal barons of Okehampton.
The Courtenay family of Tremere was descended from
Edmond Courtenay of Deviock in Cornwall, 5th son of Sir
Philip Courtenay (1404–1463) of Powderham, grandson of Sir
Philip Courtenay (died 1406) of
Powderham by his wife Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (1378 – 9 August 1449) was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer.
He won renown in the Hund ...
(d.1449),
KG.
Sir
Philip Courtenay (died 1406) of
Powderham was a younger son of
Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon
Sir Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon (12 July 1303 – 2 May 1377), 2nd Baron Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton and feudal baron of Plympton, played an important role in the Hundred Years War in the service of King Edward III. Hi ...
(d.1377), and had been given the
manor of Powderham
Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house situated within the parish and former manor of Powderham, within the former hundred of Exminster, Devon, about south of the city of Exeter and mile (0.4 km) north-east of the village of ...
by his mother
Margaret de Bohun (d.1391), eldest surviving daughter of
Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford
Humphrey (VII) de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276 – 16 March 1322) was a member of a powerful Anglo-Norman family of the Welsh Marches and was one of the Ordainers who opposed Edward II's excesses.
Family background
Humphrey de Bohun's ...
by his wife Princess
Elizabeth
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People
* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
* Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist
Ships
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* ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...
, a daughter of King
Edward I.
Edmond Courtenay of Deviock married Jane Deviock, a daughter and co-heiress of
John Deviock of
Deviock[ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.246] near
St Germans in Cornwall.
Notable family members
*Richard Courtenay of
Lostwithiel
Lostwithiel (; kw, Lostwydhyel) is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and small town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739, increas ...
in Cornwall, who was also seated at Tremeer.
*
John Courtenay of Tremere was an MP.
Further reading
*
John Lambrick Vivian, ''The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the
Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620''; with additions by J.L. Vivian, Exeter, 1887, p.113, pedigree of "Courtenay of Penkive
Notes
References
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History of Devon
People from Lanivet
Historic estates in Cornwall