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102 DEVON. YDX 1216. S. B&Wim (m BB0VBB&), Earl op Devon, or of Exkteu, s. and h., b. 2 Jany. 1235. He was knighted, by Henry III, 13 Oet. 121S0, and accompanied him to France 1262. Ho in. about 1252 Margaret.^ 1 ) Countess OF RlBOUBO, da. of Thomas, Count ok Savoy (who d. by his 2d wife Margaret, da. of William Loud of Fouckjny. He d. s.p.s. Jnly (or 15 Feb.) 1262, at Paris, aged 27, being, it was suspected, poisoned with the F.arl of Clave and others. He was our. at the priory of Bramere. Ino, post mortem 26 March 1263. His widow m. 12 June 1269, Robert de Aguillon, Privy Councillor. 9. Isabel, Dgw.-Countess op Albemarle, styling IX. 12G2, herself and generally (and probably rightfully) considered, suo jure to Countess of Devon, only surv. sister and heir ; 6. 1237 being aged 1253. 24 at her brother's death iu 1262. She had m. about 1250, OS his 2d wife, Williiam (dk FoBTZ or de Fobtibus), Earl of Albemarle, who d. at Amiens, about 1256. Seek. (1259-60) M Hen. III. Her own marriage was granted by Henry III., 20 Nov. 1268, to his 2d s. Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, who, however, on 6 April following m. (as his 1st wife) Avelina, her da. and heir presumptive ( b ) Having survived this da. (who d. s.p. 1271) she, in 1283, inherited by the death of Anuria, her mother abovenamed, the Lordship of the Isle of Wight, which she sold to the Crown ( r ) (for 6,000 marks i.e., £1000, equal to above £60,000 of the present day) and d. s.p.s. the next day 9 Nov. 1293 at Stockwell, near Lambeth, and was bur. at the priory of liramere. X. 129'!, 10 or 1. Hugh Courtes t ay of Oki-hampton, co, Dcvon, or cousin and h. beiug s. and h. of Sir Hugh C. of the same, by Eleanor, 1335. da. of Hugh (Li Despenceii,) LoBD Le Desi'enceu, which Sir Hugh Courtenay was s. and h. of John C. (d. 1273) of Okehainpton and s. and h. of "Robert C. (d. 1242) of the same, ( ,l ) by Mary da. of (whose issue in 1293 became sole heir to) William (de Redveus, alias DK Vernon) 6th Earl of Devon abovenamed ("). He sue. his Father, 28 Feb. 1291 in the Okehainpton estate beiug then 16 years old, and sue. his abovenamed cousin 9 Nov. 1293, iu such of the Red vers estates as had not been alienated, and (possibly) as de jure EARL OF DEVON. He did homage for these lands in 1297 and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD COURTENAY or DE COURTENAY) by writs 6 Feb. (1298/9) 27 Ed. I. to 24 July (1334), but with the addition of " Senior " to the latter writs. He was in the Scotch wars : was one of the warriors celebrated at Caerlaverock in 1300 : ( a ) Margaret not Avieia. See " N. <fc Q.," 5th s., x., 456, referring to Stapleton'a " De anti/juis Icrjdna" pub. by the Camden Soc. iu 1846. •() See vol. i, p. 5G, note c," sub. " Albemarle." ( c ) " The Countess Isabel, by a deed dated on Monday before the Feast of St. Martin, in the winter 1293, in which she styles herself Comitissa Albcmarl, ct Devon, ac dim Intule, sold to the King the Isle of Wight, with the Manors of Cbristchurch, Lambeth, and Salefaukes (Vauxhall iu Lambeth) for 6000 marks of silver j she died the day after the execution of the grant." [Oourthopc] It appears also " that a treaty upon this subject had been begun more than 10 years before: that she was induced to make such conveyance from the consideration that her next heir, Hugh de Courtenay, was so remote in blood, as that if he were of age, she might marry him without a dis- pensation, &c." Sec " Cull. Top. ct Gen." vol. vi, p. 263 — " among other manors ceded to the King by this instrument, was Patd-cs' Hall, the ancient residence of Falcasius, Fulk, or Fawkes de Ihoaute [abovenamed] now known as Vauxhall." — See Plauehe's "Lords of the Isle of Wight" where is. engraved her seal to the deed, viz, the cross patonce vaivee, of Fortibus, (dimidiated) impaling the lion rampant of Red vers, au.l where some interesting observations as to the earlier bearings of that family an! given. (<■) Reginald Courtenay (father of this Robert) who acquired the feudal Lordship of Okehamptou, Devon, in right of his wife, and who d. 1194, is the first proved ancestor of the English house of Courtenay, respecting which " all that we know for certain is that a [i.e., this] Reginald de Courtenay was a man of some eminence in England in the reign of Hen. II. It has been asserted, without proof, that he was one and the same person with a Reginald de Courtenay, who at the same period existed iu France [but] ■ in all likelihood ' is Cleveland's expression." See Plauehe's " Earls of Devon," p. 27G. ( c ) See tabular pedigree, p. 112, note " a."