Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameSir Edward Courtenay Earl of Devon 
[77, p. 48], [60, Devon art, Vol IV, pp. 328-330], [54, His own co-article]
[77, p. 48], [60, Devon art, Vol IV, pp. 328-330], [54, His own co-article]Death28 May 1509
General8th earl. KG 241: 1494; S 25.
FatherSir Hugh Courtenay (-1471)
Notes for Sir Edward Courtenay Earl of Devon
He had a son, grandson and gt-grandson, all earls but the line then expired, to go to some very remote cousins who managed to regenerate the earldom in 1831.
DNB Main notes for Sir Edward Courtenay Earl of Devon
Co-subject: Courtenay, Edward, [earl of Devonshire]
Dates: d. 1509
Active Date: 1489
Gender: Male
Article
Edward Courtenay, was on 26 Oct. 1485 created Earl of Devonshire by Henry VII; was granted at the same time very large estates in Devonshire; was made knight of the Garter in 1490; resisted Perkin Warbeck's attack on Exeter in 1497; and dying 1 March 1509, was buried at Tiverton. The earl was grandnephew of another Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire (1357-1419), earl marshal in 1385, but this earldom had been forfeited by Edward IV, in the person of Thomas Courtenay (great-grandson of the elder Edward Courtenay), who fought with the Lancastrians at Towton, and was slain at Tewkesbury (1461).
Dates: d. 1509
Active Date: 1489
Gender: Male
Article
Edward Courtenay, was on 26 Oct. 1485 created Earl of Devonshire by Henry VII; was granted at the same time very large estates in Devonshire; was made knight of the Garter in 1490; resisted Perkin Warbeck's attack on Exeter in 1497; and dying 1 March 1509, was buried at Tiverton. The earl was grandnephew of another Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire (1357-1419), earl marshal in 1385, but this earldom had been forfeited by Edward IV, in the person of Thomas Courtenay (great-grandson of the elder Edward Courtenay), who fought with the Lancastrians at Towton, and was slain at Tewkesbury (1461).