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 106 DEVON. body. Shortly afterwards he was, by Act of Pari. 1 Hen. VII (1435), " rc*torcd(*) to the Honours'**) lose bi/ his attainder in the Pari, of 1 Hie. III." At the Coronation, 30 Oct. 14S5, he was bearer of the Second Sword ; K.G., 1489 : was in the French expedition 1491 ; defended Exeter against Perkin Warbeck 1497. Ho m. Elizabeth, 1st da. of Sir Philip Courtenav, of Holland, Devon, by (— ) da. of Robert Hisoeston. She d. before him and was in*, at Tiverton, Devon. He d. 2S May 1509, when the Earldom became forfeited by reason of the attainder of his sou, the next heir. Will dat. 27 May, pr. 11 July 1509. XIX, 1511. 1. William Courtexay, only s. and li., l>. about 1175 ; KB. (being then sti/led Lord Courtenay) 25 Nov. 1437, at the coronation of Elizabeth, the Queen Consort ; Captain in the Royal army, and assisted his Father in defeating Perkin Warbeck, 1407. Having m. in or before Oct. 1495 the Lady Katherine PLANTAGBNET, 6th da. of King Edward IV., by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Wy'Deviu.e, he became an object of jealousy to Henry VII., by whom he was imprisoned, 1502-09, for alleged (but not proved) conspiracy in the Earl of Suffolk's rebellion, and having been attainted, v.p., Feb. 1504, was thus disabled from inheriting his Father's Earldom. On that King's death he was received into favour by Henry VIII., on whose coronation, 21 June 1509, he bore the third sword. On 10 May 1511 he was cr. EAHL OF DEVON, with the usual rem. to heirs male of his body ; and tho' his investiture, &c, was never completed, lie was, by royal warrant, bur. with the honours due to an Earl. He d. of pleurisy, at Greenwich, 9 June 1511, and was bur. at the Black Friars, London. ( c ) Fun. certif. in Coll. of Arms. His widow and Executrix, who was 4. at Eltham, Kent, 1479, took the vow of perpetual chastity, 13 July 1511, and d. 15 Nov. 1527, at Tiverton, Devon, and was bur. there. M.I. Fun. certif. at Coll. of Arms. 1646," in ap. to 47th rep. of D.K. Pub. Records, where is given reference to the Act of 1 Heu. VII restoring the Earldom of Devon, as mentioned in the text. This was the first creation made by King Henry VII, followed next day by those of the Earldom of Derby and of the Dukedom of Bedford. ( a ) The following persons were by this same Farl. (1 Hen. VII) restored to the honours [here printed in italics] lost by attainder either in the Pari, of 1, 8, or 12 Ed. IV or in that of 1 Ric. Ill, viz. :— (1) Richard Beauchamp, .Baron of St. Amand ; S) Richard Wydeville, Knt., Earl Rivers ; (3) John Welles, " Squier," Baron Welles; ) Jasper [Tudor], Duke of Bedford [so cr. 27 Oct. 1485], Earl of Pembroke ; (5) Henry Clifford, Baron Clifford ; (6) William Beaumont, Knt., Viscount Beaumont ; (7) John Vere, Knt., Earl of Oxford ; (S) Edward Stafford, Knt., Duke of Buckingham ; (9) Thomas Ormond„a/i'as Botyller, Knt., Earl of Ormond in Irclami ; (10) Edmund Roos, Baron Boos ; (11) Thomas Grey, Knt., Marr/ucss of Dorset ; and (12) the heirs of Robert, Lord Hungerford, in the Barony of Ihmgerford. With respect to tho remaining (13) restoration, i.e., that of Edward Courtenay, it differs from all the above, inasmuch as this Edward was cr. Earl of Devon before he was " restored to the honours [see next note] lost by his attainder in the Pari, of 1 Ric. III." ( b ) It is difficult to see what honours are alluded to. It certainly was not the Barony of Courtenay (under the writ of 1299) or the old Earldom of Devon (formerly held by the family of Redvers), of neither of which Sir Edward Courtenay was the representative, or even a coheir. The words of restoration seem to imply that he was entitled to some honour, and if the Earldom of Devon is held to have been granted (1335) to Hugh Courtenay in tail male, this Edward would have been the 8th Earl of that creation (on the death of his cousin in 1471) save only for the attainder of that dignity (1461) by Edward IV, which attainder apparently stands good from 1471 to the present time. It is, however, possible that as many of the attainders made by Ed. IV were reversed by this Act of 1 Hen. VII, the attainder of this Earldom was (rightly or wrongly) considered to have been similarly reversed, under the general term of " the honours lost" by Sir Edward in the pari, of I Ric. III. ( c ) A few months before, he was one of the 4 challengers (the King being one, Sir Thomas Knynett and Sir William Ncvill the others) at a splendid tournament held at Westmr. An emblazoned roll depicting the same is at the College of Arms, London.