Peter Courteen (abt. 1581 - abt. 1630)

Born about 1581 in St Mary at Hill, City of London [uncertain]

Died about 1630 at about age 49 in Middleburg, Holland [uncertain]

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Biography

Peter Courten/Courteen was a brother of William Courten.

The Courten Pedigree in the Visitation of London did not record Peter but did record that his brother William was the son of William Courten "of Leye came into England in tyme of persecution in Flanders" and Margaret Casier.^[1]

“.. in 1606 [Sir] William Courten, his brother [Sir] Peter Courten, who resided in Middelburg in the Netherlands, and his brother-in-law John de Moncy established a very successful ‘joint stock’ company, where Sir William held half the shares and the other two a quarter each. This company traded successfully until 1631, at most a year after Sir Peter Courten’s death, and was reputed to have generated a return of between £150,000 and £200,000 annually. The company traded primarily with countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal and the coast of Barbary (North Africa) specialising in the silk and linen trade from Holland and Flanders”.^[2]

"Peter Curteen (Courteen), a Dutchman, of Belgium and London" was knighted on 22 Feb 1623/1624 at Whitehall.^[3]

In the will of his nephew Sir Peter Courten Bt. [son of Sir William Courten], the will made on 18 Jun 1624 and proved on 12 Jul 1624^[4] the Testator nominated as one of his Overseers his uncle Sir Peter Courton of Middleborough, knight [Middleborough in the Province of Zeland].

Around the time of the death of his nephew, Sir Peter Courteen of Middleborough was recorded corresponding with a John Harris / Harrison regarding business matters in Virginia.^[5]

He was also connected with his brother Sir William Courteen in the settling of Barbados.^[6]

A Peter Bondaen and his sons were Executors of Sir Peter Courten of Midleburg.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Visitation of London 1633, 1634 and 1635. Vol. I. Publications of the Harleian Society. Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Joseph Lemuel Chester. 1880. Courten Pedigree, p 194 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ Brethren in Christ. By Ole Peter Grell. Cambridge University Press. 2011 Google Books.
3. ↑ Shaw, W A (1906) The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. Vols I & II. London. Vol II, p 183.
4. ↑ Will of Sir Peter Courten of Pirton, Worcestershire. 12 July 1624. PROB 11/144/39. The National Archives, Kew.
5. ↑ 'America and West Indies: Addenda 1624', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 9, 1675-1676 and Addenda 1574-1674, ed. W Noel Sainsbury (London, 1893), pp. 63-68. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol9/pp63-68 [accessed 20 January 2020].
6. ↑ Gary Puckrein (1981) Did Sir William Courteen Really Own Barbados? Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 44, No. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 135-149 jstor.
7. ↑ A brief narrative ... of the ... cases of Sir William Courten, and Sir Paul Pyndar, knights, and William Courten late of London Esquire, Deceased. 1679 Google Books.

See also:

• A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Vol XIV, 1798, London Google Books

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to Gordon Simpkinson for creating WikiTree profile Courteen-10 through the import of Simpkinson 20100522.ged on Feb 22, 2013.