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326 DEVON who was blind a long while before his death, d. 5 Dec. 141 9, and was probably bur. at Ford Abbey.(^) Will dat. 29 June 141 9. Inq. p. m. 7 Hen. V (1419-20). [Sir Edward de Courtenay, styled Lord Courtenay, s. and h. ap., i. about 1388; knighted at the Coronation of Henry IV, 13 Oct. 1399; had a grant, 19 Nov. 14 13, of the office of Warden of the King's forests in Devon and Cornwall; served in the French wars, and fought, 25 Oct. 141 5, at the battle of Agincourt; Keeper of the New Forest 20 Nov. 1415; Adm. of the Fleet, May to Aug. 1418. He w., between 13 May 1406 and 20 Nov. 1409, Alienor, da. of Roger (de Mortimer), Earl of March, by Alienor, 1st da. of Thomas (de Holand), Earl OF Kent. She was living Jan. 1413/4. He d. s.p. and v.p.^ in or shortly after Aug. 141 8.] XII. 1419. 4- Hugh (de Courtenay), Earl of Devon, and Lord Courtenay, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h., b. 1389; ceremonially knighted at the Coronation of Henry IV, 13 Oct. 1399. "Capt. of a fleet to guard the sea" Mar.-Aug. 141 8; Lieut, of the King at Sea April-Nov. 141 9. He w. Anne, sister of John, ist Earl of Shrewsbury, da. of Richard (Talbot), Lord Talbot, by Ankaret, da. of John le Strange. He d. 16 June 1422, aged 33. Inq. p. m. 10 Hen. V (1422). Admon.4 July 1423 at Lambeth. His widow had lie. (1432-3), 1 1 Hen. VI, to marry John Botreaux, and d. 16 Jan. 1 440/1. Inq. p. m. 19 Hen. VI ( 1 440-1). XIII. 1422. 5. Thomas (de Courtenay), Earl of Devon, and Lord Courtenay, s. and h., b. 1414. Knighted, by Henry VI, 19 May 1426; had livery of his lands without proving his age, 20 Feb. 1422/3; engaged for several years in the French wars; P.C. to Henry VI; Lord High Steward 25 May 1445, for the Coronation of Margaret, the Queen Consort. In 1446 he challenged, unsuccessfully, the precedency of the Earl of Arundel. () Lieut, against the rebels 1450; Keeper of Clarendon Forest, Wiks, 17 July 1457. He w., after 1421, when she was living, Margaret, 2nd and yst. da. of John (Beaufort), (*) His is said to have been the magnificent monument at Tiverton destroyed towards the close of the l6th century (mentioned by Risdon in his Survey, 1605-30), on which was the well-known, curious, though certainly far from contemporary, inscription of " Ho, ho, who lies here ? I, the good Earle of Devonshire And Mauld my wife that was full deare; We lived together LV yeare. That we spent we had: That we gave we have: That we left we lost." He, however, certainly directed his burial to be at Ford Abbey; not at Tiverton. C") See vol. i, p. 249, note " b," sub Arundel.