Joan (Champernoun) Courtenay (aft. 1360 - 1419)

Born after 1360 in Devon, England

Ancestors

Wife of James Chudleigh — married before 1387 in England

Wife of John Courtenay — married 1403 in Castle,Powderham,Devon, England

Descendants

Died 1419 before age 59 in St. Thomas, Devon, England

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Biography

The following was excerpted from a post to SGM, 30 Jan 1999, by Ronny Bodine:

From: RBodine996 (rbodine996 AT aol.com) Subject: CHAMPERNOUN OF MODBURY, DEVONSHIRE - PART 2 of 2 Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval Date: 1999/01/30

GENERATION 5

11. JOAN CHAMPERNOUN. Died 1419. Vivian (p. 162) and Pole (Devon, p. 255, 256) both incorrectly call her the daughter of Alexander. At the inquisition of proof of age of her son, Philip de Courtenay, held at Tyuerton on 12 Feb 1424/5, John Colle, a witness to the baptism, who was a servant of Richard de Champernoun, kt. and was sent by him to Ashton to present the mother of Philip with a silver cup, refers to Richard Champernoun as "father of the mother of the infant" (Inq. 3 Hen VI, file 20 (50)). As the daughter of Sir Richard by his 1st wife, the evidence may be found in Ashton Church wherein is a crest of the Chudleighs under which are twenty-five coats of arms showing the various matrimonial alliances of the Chudleighs. Included among them are those of Champernoun and Astley (the latter being Azure, a cinquefoil ermine, RTDA, 31 [1899], p. 191-192, where it is identified as Ashley, but see CP, 1: 283, where the Astley arms are thus identified). She married 1stly, Sir James Chudleigh, died c1402; and 2ndly, c1403, Sir John Courtenay, who died before 1415 (CP, 4: 335).

Note: CP IV:335 is nothing but a chart which gives John's name, with no wife, dates, or other information, except that he is son of Philip, d. 1406, and father of another Philip, d. 1463.

Ancestral Roots, line 217-36, states that John Courtenay of Powderham, d. bef. 29 Jul 1406, m. Joan, daughter of Alexander Champernoun, and granddaughter of Richard Champernoun, while James Chudleigh m. Agnes Champernoun. There are other sources which differ on this as well.

Sources

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I16732
• 1.Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999

Page: 217-36 Text: Agnes, daughter of Richard Champernoun

• 2.Title: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com

Page: Ronny Bodine, 30 Jan 1999 Text: Joan, daughter of Richard Champernoun

• 3.Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999

Page: 217-36

• 4.Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999

Page: 217-36 Text: no date, 1st husband

• 5.Title: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com

Page: Ronny Bodine, 30 Jan 1999 Text: no date, 1st husband

• 6.Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999

Page: 217-36 Text: by 1403/4

• 7.Title: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com

Page: Ronny Bodine, 30 Jan 1999 Text: no date, 2nd husb.

The entry for Joan in Weis's Ancestral Roots shows that she was the daughter of Alexander Champernoun and the widow of James Chudleigh before marrying John Courtenay.

• Maclean, John. The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, in the County of Cornwall (Nichols & Sons, London, 1873) Vol. 1, Page 76