Elizabeth (Hungerford) Courtenay (abt. 1403 - 1476)

Born about 1403 in Farleigh castle, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Wife of Philip Courtenay — married about 1426 in Powderham, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 14 Dec 1476 at about age 73 in Powderham, Devon, England

Biography

Born about 1403, Elizabeth was likely the eldest child of Sir Walter Hungerford, later Baron Hungerford,^[1] and his first wife Katherine (Catherine) Peverell. She was daughter and coheir of Thomas PEVERELL, MP, of Parke and Hamatethy in Cornwall, by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas COURTENAY. ^[2]

She married Sir Philip Courtenay, (1404–1463) of Powderham, Devon. On her marriage she took to her husband as her marriage portion the manor of Molland in North Devon, which was then inherited by her second son Sir Philip I Courtenay of Molland (who died in 1488), who founded a junior branch of the Courtenay family. A fragment of an ancient chest tomb in Molland Church displays two interlaced Hungerford sickles (the ancient symbol of the Hungerford family) and a dolphin of Courtenay of Powderham. Her third son was Peter Courtenay (c.1432-1492) Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Winchester, whose splendid surviving mantlepiece in the Bishop's Palace, Exeter displays much heraldry including Hungerford sickles and Peverell garbs.^[3]

The marriage likely occuring c. 1425, they had 7 sons (Sir William; Sir Philip; Peter, Bishop of Exeter & Winchester; Sir Walter; Edmund; Humphrey; & Sir John) & 4 daughter (Anne, wife of Sir Thomas Grenville; Elizabeth, wife of Sir James Luttrell, of Sir Humphrey Audley, & of Thomas Malet, Esq; Philippe, wife of Sir Thomas Fulford; & Katherine, wife of Sir St. Clere Pomeroy, of Thomas Rogers, & of Sir William Huddesfield).^[4]

Elizabeth Hungerford died on 14 December 1476.^[5]

Family

• Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, Devon, b. 18 Jan 1404, d. 16 Dec 1463

Children

• Sir William
• Sir Philip
• Peter, Bishop of Exeter & Winchester
• Sir Walter
• Edmund
• Humphrey
• Sir John
• Joan or Jane, wife of William Beaumont,^[6] and Henry Bodrugan^[7]
• Anne, wife of Sir Thomas Grenville
• Elizabeth, wife of Sir James Luttrell, of Sir Humphrey Audley, & of Thomas Malet, Esq
• Philippe, wife of Sir Thomas Fulford
• Katherine, wife of Sir St. Clere Pomeroy, of Thomas Rogers, & of Sir William Huddesfield^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 197
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 401-402
3. ↑ See notice of the detail of the union in the article for her father Sir Walter Hungerford on wikipedia
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 327.
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 30.
6. ↑ Colby, Frederic Thomas ed. Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1564, with additions from the earlier Visitation of 1531. (Exeter, 1881). p. 17 Beaumont pedigree
7. ↑ Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, A Treatise on the Law of Adulterine Bastardy, Issue 638 (London: William Pickering, 1836) Google Books pp. 57-58
8. ↑ Plantagenet Ancestry 2nd ed. p.46

See Also:

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999. Page: 51-35
• Wikipedia: Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford
• 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