The title of Earl of Devon was created several times in the Peerage of England, and was possessed first by the de Redvers (de Reviers) family, and later for the Courtenay. It is not to be confused with the title of "Earl of Devonshire", held along with the title of Duke of Devonshire by the Cavendish family, although the patent for the creation of those peerages used the same Latin words, Comes Devon. The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. ... Coat of Arms of the House of Courtenay: Or three torteaux. ... The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. ...

The Earls of Devon were treated with suspicion under the Tudors, partly because one of them had married Catherine of York, a younger daughter of Edward IV of England. All of them but the last were attainted, and there were several recreations and restorations. The last recreation was to the heirs male of the grantee, not (as would be usual) the heirs male of his body. When he died unmarried, it was assumed the title was extinct, but a much later Courtney, whose common ancestor was seven generations before this Earl, successfully claimed the title in 1831. During this period the de jure Earls of Devon were made baronets and Viscounts. Catherine of York (August 14, 1479 - November 15, 1527) was the ninth child and sixth daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. ... Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470–1471. ... For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ...

During this time an Earldom, now called for distinction the Earldom of Devonshire was created twice: once for Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, who had no legitimate children; the second time for the Cavendishes, now Dukes of Devonshire. Unlike the Dukes of Devonshire, the Earls of Devon were strongly connected with the county of Devon. Their seat is Powderham Castle, near Starcross on the River Exe. The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. ... Charles Blount (pr. ... The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. ... Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Powderham Castle, located in Devon, England, was built between 1390 and 1420 by Sir Philip Courtney. ... Starcross is a small riverside town on the west bank of the estuary of the River Exe in Devon. ... The River Exe rises on Exmoor in Devon, near the north (Bristol Channel) coast of the county, but flows more or less directly due south and reaches the sea at a substantial ria on the south (English Channel) coast. ...

The Earl of Devon has not inherited the original Barony of Courtenay or the Viscounty of Courtenay of Powderham (1762-1835); nevertheless, his heir is styled Lord Courtenay by courtesy.

The ancient Earldom

The first Earl of Devon was Baldwin de Reviers (Redvers, Revieres), son of Richard de Reviers, founder of Twynham Abbey. The Abbey chronicles call his father also Earl, but there is no contemporary evidence for this, including the Abbey charter, which has survived. Baldwin de Reviers was a great lord in Devon and the Isle of Wight, one of the first to rebel against King Stephen. He seized Exeter, and was a pirate out of Carisbrooke, but he was driven out of England to Anjou, where he joined the Empress Matilda. She made him Earl of Devon after she established herself in England, probably in early 1141. Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island, south of Southampton off the southern English coast. ... Stephen (1096 – October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ... The city of Exeter is the county town of Devon, in England, UK. It is located at , . In the 2001 census its population was recorded at 111,066. ... Carisbrooke Castle Carisbrooke Castle is a historic castle located near Newport, Isle of Wight // Early History The site of Carisbrooke Castle may have been occupied in pre-Roman times. ... Anjou is a former county (c. ... Empress Matilda (February, 1101 – September 10, 1167) (Saxon form Maud or Maude) – was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England. ...

William de Reviers, fifth Earl, (and son of the first Earl) had only two children who left issue. His son Baldwin died at the age of sixteen, 1 September 1216, leaving his wife Margaret pregnant with the sixth Earl. King John forced her to marry Falkes de Breauté. She was rescued at the fall of Bedford Castle in 1224. She was divorced from him, as having been in no true marriage; she is understandably, if mistakenly, called Countess of Devon in several records. The fifth Earl's youngest daughter, Mary, married Pierre de Preaux and then Robert de Courtney. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... Events Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in the First Barons War Henry III becomes King of England. ... John (French: Jean) (December 24, c. ... Falkes de Breauté (d. ... Bedford Castle, a castle in Bedford, England. ... Peter de Preaux (d. ...

The 7th Earl died in 1262, leaving no children. His sister was widow of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle, and became also Countess of Devon in her own right. Her children predeceased her; she had no grandchildren.

Her lands passed to her second cousin once removed, Hugh de Courtney, great-grandson of Mary and Robert de Courtney above. He was summoned to Parliament in 1299, by which he became Lord Courtney. He had difficulty collecting the third penny of the County of Devon, but was confirmed as 9th Earl in 1335; some would call this a new grant, rather than a confirmation.

Three of the eight sons of the tenth Earl had descendants (another, William Courtenay, was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor). Sir Hugh de Courtenay (1327-1349) was one of the founding members of the Order of the Garter, but he and his only son died before his father. Sir Edward de Courtenay, the third son, also died before his father, but left two sons, Edward, the 11th Earl, and Hugh. We will return to the descendants of Sir Philip de Courtenay to whom his father left Powderham, Devon. William Courtenay (c. ... Arms of the see of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... The Garter is the most recognizable insignia of the Order of the Garter. ...

The 14th Earl fought on the losing, Lancastrian, side at the Battle of Towton. He was captured, attainted, and beheaded. The Battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses was the bloodiest ever fought on British soil, with casualties believed to have been in excess of 20,000 (perhaps as many as 30,000) men. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

After that, the Yorkists made Humphrey Stafford, a distant cousin of the Earl of Stafford (and nephew of another Archbishop, their agent in the West Country. On 17 May 1469, he was created Earl of Devon, since the post was vacant. He was a "three month's Earl": He was sent to fight "Robin of Redesdale", one of the commanders of Warwick, divided his own forces, and was captured and executed at Bridgwater, 17 August 1469. He had no children, so the second creation of the Earldom was then extinct. The title Baron Stafford has been created several times in the Peerage of England. ... The West Country is an informal area of southwestern England, roughly corresponding to the administrative region South West England. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... Events July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. ... Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428 – April 14, 1471), was also known as Warwick the Kingmaker. ... The statue of Admiral Robert Blake at Cornhill, Bridgwater, with St Marys Church in the background (1998). ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. ...

When Warwick won, and arranged the readeption of Henry VI, he also had the Earldom of Devon restored to John Courtenay, brother of the 14th Earl. When Edward IV prevailed again, the next year, all the legislation of Henry VI's second reign was cancelled, including this restoration. The fifteenth Earl died fighting on the losing side of the Battle of Tewkesbury, a few weeks later. If the Earldom (and the Barony of Courtenay) had not been forfeited at the change of reign, they would (by modern law) have gone into abeyance among his sisters. Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/22, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471. ... Combatants House of York House of Lancaster Commanders Edward IV of England Edmund Beaufort Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties Unknown Unknown The Battle of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, which took place on May 4, 1471, completed one phase of the Wars of the Roses. ... Abeyance (from the Old French abeance meaning gaping), a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. ...

Tudor Earls

Sir Edward Courtenay, grandnephew of the 11th Earl, fought on the winning side at the Battle of Bosworth. Later that year, he was created Earl of Devon, the third creation. He had been under attainder by Richard III's Parliament, and, still later in 1485, he was restored to "the honors lost by his attainder". It is not clear what honors he had had, but this may have been intended to restore the ancient Earldom of Devon. He died in 1509. The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field was an important battle during the Wars of the Roses in 15th century England. ... Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York. ...

William Courtenay, his only son, married Katherine of York, a younger daughter of Edward IV, around 1495. This made him suspicious to Henry VII and he was imprisoned in 1503 and attainted in 1504, for (never proved) complicity in the conspiracy of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk. He did not, therefore, inherit his father's title, but was gradually forgiven under the new reign of Henry VIII. This had gotten as far as far as a restoration of lands and a new grant of the Earldom of Devon, which he died suddenly of pleurisy in June 1511. Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1999), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder and first patriarch of the Tudor dynasty. ... Arms of the 3rd Duke of Suffolk Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk (1471/1472 - 1513), Duke of Suffolk was a son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth of York. ... Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ...

Henry Courtenay, his only surviving son, inherited his father's Earldom. In 1512, his father's attainder was reversed, making him heit to his grandfather's earldom; thus becoming second Earl of both the third and fourth creations; and in 1525 Marquess of Exeter. Unfortunately, in 1538, he was tried, convicted, attainted and beheaded in 1538, for conspiring with the Poles and Nevilles against the government of Thomas Cromwell in the aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace. At this point, all his titles were fotfeited: the Marquesssate, the Earldoms of the third and fourth creation, and (if it was revived) the ancient Earldom also. The title of Marquess of Exeter was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801 for the Earl of Exeter. ... Thomas Cromwell: detail from a portrait by Hans Holbein, 1532-3 Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex ( 1485 - July 28, 1540) was an English statesman, one of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England. ... The Pilgrimage of Grace was a rising by Roman Catholics in Northern England in 1536, in protest at Englands break with Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, as well as other specific political, social and economic grievances. ...

Edward Courtenay, his only surviving son, was a prisoner for fifteen years, from his father's arrest to the beginning of Mary's reign, when he was released and created, as the fifth creation, Earl of Devon. (This patent differed from the other patents in granting the Earldom to his heirs male for ever, rather than the "heirs male of his body".) He was proposed as a marriage for the Queen, his cousin, and her sister, the Lady Elizabeth, and again locked up in the Tower; but in 1555 he was permitted to go to Italy, and died in Padua in 1556, quite possibly poisoned. With his death, unmarried, the male line of Sir Edward de Courtenay, was extinct; and the Earldom with it, or so everybody thought. Mary Tudor is the name of both Mary I of England and her fathers sister, Mary Tudor (queen consort of France). ... Elizabeth I (7 September 1533–24 March 1603) was Queen of England, Queen of France (in name only), and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. ...

Interregnum

Since there was no Earl over Devon, James I granted it in 1603 to Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, whose aunt had been the last Earl's mother. He died without legitimate children three years later, and the King gave (or rather sold) the Earldom to William Cavendish, 1st Baron Cavendish. Charles Blount (pr. ... William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire (December 27, 1552–March 3, 1626) was the second son of Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick. ...

Meanwhile, the heirs of Sir Philip de Courtenay of Powderham lived quietly under the Tudors, as country gentlemen; they did not marry royalty. They became baronets in 1645, during the English Civil War; and Viscount Courtenay of Powderham in 1762, ten days before the death of the first Viscount. The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651. ...

In 1831, the senior living Courtenay was William Courtenay, the third Viscount, an aged rake, living in Paris, having fled a bill of indictment. Should be die unmarried, the viscounty would become extinct; the baronetcy would be inherited by his third cousin, another William Courtenay, who happened to be Clerk Assistant to Parliament.

This William Courtenay persuaded the House of Lords that "heir male" in the last creation of the title meant "heir male collateral", and that his cousin was therefore 9th Earl of Devon, and his ancestors had been de jure Earls of Devon back to 1556. William Courtenay duly suceeded his cousin as 10th Earl in 1835, and from him the later Earls are descended. (A madman, John Nichols Thom, claimed to be "Sir William Courtenay" in 1832, and stood for Parliament twice, proclaiming his right to the Earldom and the extreme radical platform. He organized an agricultural rising outside Canterbury in 1838, and was shot during its suppression.) John Nichols Thom (1799-1838) was a Cornish self-declared Messiah in the 19th century Cornwall. ...

The inconvenience, since 1831, of having two Earls for the same county, has been dealt with thus: The Cavendish Earls, who were promoted to Dukes in 1694, had been spelling their title Duke of Devonshire; the ancient Earls had usually been Earls of Devon. (This is in part the difference between English and law Latin.) This has now become the difference between the two peerages, and it is convenient to call the Blount Earl (1603-6) Earl of Devonshire also. The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. ...

Earls of Devon, First Creation (1141)

• Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon (c. 1095 - 1155)
• Richard de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon (d. 1162)
• Baldwin de Redvers, 3rd Earl of Devon (d. 1188)
• Richard de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon (d. c. 1193) brother
• William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon (d. 1217) uncle
• Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217-1245) grandson
• Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon (1236-1262)
• Isabel de Redvers, 8th Countess of Devon (1237-1293), sister
• Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1276-1340) (cousin; declared Earl 1335)
• Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (1303-1377)
• Edward de Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon (1357-1419), grandoson
• Hugh de Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon (1389-1422)
• Thomas de Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon (1414-1458)
• Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon (1432-1461) (attainted 1461)
• John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon (1435-1471) (restored 1470; forfeited 1471), brother

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Earl of Devon, Second Creation (1469)

• Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon (1439-1469) (granted May 1469; forfeited August 1469)

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Earl of Devon, Third Creation (1485)

• Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (d. 1509) (forfeited at his death by son’s attainder; restored 1512 to his grandson)
  • Heir male to John Courtenay above; attainted 1484; restored to lands and honours then lost in 1485; if this was intended to restore the first Earldom, it was also forfeit 1538/9).

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Earls of Devon, Fourth Creation (1511)

• William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1475-1511) (attainted 1504; restored to the rights of a subject 1511; new creation two days later; died the next month without investiture, but buried as an Earl.) son of Edward above.
• Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Devon (1498-1539) (heir to both 3rd and 4th creations after 1512; attainted 1538/9) son of William above.

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Earls of Devon, Fifth Creation (1553)

• Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1527-1556) (also restored in blood, but not honours, 1553; fifth creation dormant 1556†) son of Henry above.

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Earls de jure

• William Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1529 - 1557), distant cousin of Edward above,
• William Courtenay, 3rd Earl of Devon (1553- 1630)
• Francis Courtenay, 4th Earl of Devon (1576- 1638)
• Sir William Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon, 1st Baronet (1628- 1702) (created 1644)
• Sir William Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon, 2nd Baronet (1675- 1735) grandson of prec.
• William Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon, 1st Viscount Courtenay (Feb 11, 1709/1710 - May 16, 1762) (created Viscount Courtenay 1762)
• William Courtenay, 8th Earl of Devon, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (30 October 1742- 14 October 1788)
• William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon, 3rd Viscount Courtenay (1768-1835) (retrospectively revived 1831†)

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Revived (1831)

• William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1768-1835)
• William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (1777-1859),third cousin
• William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon (1807-1888)
• Edward Baldwin Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon (1836-1891)
• Henry Hugh Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon (1811-1904), uncle
• Charles Pepys Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon (1870-1927), grandson
• Henry Hugh Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon (1872-1935), brother
• Frederick Leslie Courtenay, 16th Earl of Devon (1875-1935), brother
• Charles Christopher Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon (1916-1998)
• Hugh Rupert Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon (b. 1942)
  • Charles Peregrine Courtenay, Lord Courtenay (b. 1975)

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Earl of Devon

While the title was supposed extinct, there were two recreations, to the families of Blount and Cavendish, of a Devon Earldom; for which see Charles Blount 1st Earl of Devonshire (1603-1606) and Duke of Devonshire. King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of... Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near... The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom. ...

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