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DEVON. 105 XVI. 1469, Humvhrey (Stafford), Baron Stafford of Sutowyke, May, who was, on 17 May 1489, cr. EAKL OF DEVON, was b. 1139, to being s. and h. of William Stafford, of Hook, and of Suthwyke in North Bradley, co. Wilts, by Katharine, da. and coheir of Sir John °" Chiiiiock, Knt. He was aged 10 years and more at his father's death, 18 June 14'.0 ; Knighted on Towton field 29 March 1401 by King Ed. IV ; High Steward of Cornwall and Constable of Bristol, 1161. He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD STAFFORD DE SUTHWYK) by writa(*) from 26 July (1461) 1 Ed. IV to 28 Feb (1 162/3) 2 Ed. IV, directed " llumfrido Stafford dcSuthici/k; Chcv." By patents 24 April M6i{ h ) he was a: BARON STAFFORD OF SUTHWYK^) (to hun and the hubs male of his body), and 17 May 1 169 EARL OF DEVONC) with like rem. He m. Isabel, da. of Sir John Barre, by Idonea, da. and h. of John Hotoft. Being sent to suppress a rebellion in the North, he deserted the cause, whereon the King commanded the Sheriffs of Somerset and Devon to put him to immediate death, and lie was accordingly beheaded 17 Aug. 1469 at Bridgcwater, having been " an Earl of three months and no more." He was 6nr. at Glastonbury Abbey, and as Uc d. IMcBUl honours became cxd'iic*. Will pr. 29 Feb. 1469 70. His widow hi. (as his first wife) Sir Thomas BouucuiEn (s. of Henry, Eahl of Essex), who was bur. at Ware, Herts, in 1491. She d. 1 March 1488/9. M.I. in Ware Church. XVII. 1470, 18 or 7. John (Courtenay), Earl of Devon and Lord to Courtenay, yst. and only surv. br. of Thomas the xvth Earl ; was on 1471. the restoration of King Henry VI, 9 Oct 1470, by the reversal of the attainders in the reign of Edward IV restored to the honours of his family. He had been Knighted 29 Dec 1460 by his br. Earl Thomas. By the legal termination of the reign of King Henry VI (after the battle of Barnet), 14 April 1171, all his honours became again forfeited, and he himself d. unm. a few weeks later, being slain, fighting valiantly on the Lancastrian side, 4 May 1471, at the battle of Tewkesbury, where be was in command of the rear of the army. He was bur. at Tewkesbury. On his death the representation of the ancient Earls of Devon (of the family of Redvers, from whom the Courteuays had inherited it) and of the Baronij of Courtenay (cr. by the writ of 1299) fell into a6ci/ancc, between his sisters or their descendants^), subject to the attainder of (1161) 1 Ed. IV, which revived on that King's re-accession, 11 April 1471. XVIII. 1485, I 'or S. " Edward Courte.vay, Kut.," s. and h. of Sir to Hugh C. of Boconnock, co. Cornwall, by Margaret, da. and b. of 1 509. Thomas Cahmixow, which Hugh was s. and h. of another Sir Hugh Courtenay, yr. br. to Edward, Earl of Devon (1377-1419) above- named, ( r ) being thus heir male, tho' iioi heir general, of his family, and having (like his ancestors) espoused the Lancastrian side, anil been banished and attainted, in 1484, by Richard III, was Knighted by the Earl of Richmond (afterwards Henry VII) 7th Aug. 1185, being, 1.1 days later, present at Bosworth fight, and was by pat. 26 Oct. 14S5 cr. EARL Ol-' DEVON, or DEVONSHIRE(s with the usual rem. to heirs male of his M There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. ( b ) It is difficult to see the reason of this patent, which conferred, according to the present theory, a Barony of later date and of less extensive limitation than the one he had already vested in him, by the writ of 1461; indeed it is more strange, inasmuch as had his heir general beeu his grand-daughter and his heir male his second sou, the two Baronies would (as is now held) have gone into different channels, which in all probability was not the intention. ( c ) See a list of, and some remarks on, the Baronies by patent cr. before the 16th Century, page 31, note "e," tub " Daubeuv." ( d ) This patent was annulled by statute 1 Hen. VII., Rot. Pari, vi, 336. (°) See vol. ii, p. 386, note "a," sub " Courtenay," aud see also tabular pedigree, tnfra, p. 112, note "a." O See tabular pedigree, p. 112, nolo "a." («) " Devonshire in Pari. Roll., No. 123. 1 lieu VII, p. 1, No. 30." It appears from Collins' "Precedents," p. 411, that the creation was " without the solemnities," the words used being " tcttc me ipso," not " Msec tcstibus." See also " Creations, 1483-