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 COURTENAY 465 COURTENAYf) I. Hugh de CourtenaYjC") s. and h. of John de Courtenay,(') of Ok;ehampton,('^) Devon {d. 3 MayC) 1274), by Isabel, da. of Hugh (de Veer), Earl of Oxford, b. 25 Mar. 1248/9 or i2^oji.(^ He had livery of his inheritance, 16 June 1274, his homage being respited.(8) He was in the Army of West Wales in I282,('') and was sum. for Military Service, 12 Dec. (1276) 5 Edw. I to 14 June (1287) 15 Edw. I, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury,(') 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writs directed Hugoni de Curtenay or Curteney. He m. Alianore, da. of Hugh LE Despenser, of Ryhall, Rutland, <yc.. Justiciar of England, by Aline, da. and h. of Philip Basset, of Wycombe, Bucks, Compton- and Wootton-Bassett, Wilts, tfc, also Justiciar of England. He d. 28 Feb. (*) The account of the first Hugh has been kindly supplied by G. W. Watson. C") Courtenay in Gatinais. The arms of the Courtenays, both English and French, were, Or, three roundlets Gules (with various brisures). These were borne (seals, 1205, 12 12) by Pierre, Sire de Courtenay, Count of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre, s. and h. of Pierre de France, mentioned below: though he sometimes added (seal, 1 2 10) an escutcheon of France. Those of his descendants who were Emperors of Constantinople bore. Gules, a cross between four annulets, in each quarter five crosslets potent in saltire, Or (seals, 1267, 1280, 1303). (Du Bouchet, Mahon d( Courtenay, 1 66 1, pp. Sg-gg, preuves, pp. 13-15). (') He was s. and h. of Robert, who d. 26 July 1242 at Iwerne, Dorset, and wasittr.in the Abbey of Ford (by Mar)' — widow of Pierre dePreaux — da. and in her issue h. of William, Earl of Devon), s. and h. of Renaud (by Hawise, h. of Okehampton, m. before 1178, ^. 31 July 1219), s. and h. of Renaud de Courtenay, of Sutton, Berks (i 161), who lost his great possessions in France about 1 150, the French King, Louis VII, seizing them and granting them in appanage to his own j^sf/bA;'" Pierre (ancestor of all the French Courtenays), with Renaud's da., Elisabeth, in marriage: which Renaud was br. and h. of Guillaume, s. and h. of Miles, s. and h. of Josselin, s. and h. of Athon, Sire de Courtenay and Chateau-Renard at the commencement of the nth century. See also Tabular Pedigree under "Devon." ('') Some 92 knights' fees pertained to the barony of Okehampton, held of the King in chief by the service of two knights. He also held the manors of Sutton, Berks, Crewkerne, Somerset, and Waddesdon, Bucks, of the King in chief; Hillesdon, Bucks, and Colyton, Devon, of other lords than the King. {^) Chron. of the Abbey of Ford (where he was bur.), in Monasticon, vol. v, p. 379. (*) "Johannes de Corteney." Writ of ^//Vw cl. ext. 11 May 2 Edw. I. Extents and Inq. (20), Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bucks, Berks, 21 May to 3 June 1274. " Hugo de Curtenay est filius et propinquior heres predict! Johannis de Curtenay et est de etate xxv [xxiij — co. Devon'] annorum et tantum amplius a festo Annunciacionis beate Marie proximo preterito " (co. Dorset). Heir aged 24 — co. Bucks: 24 and more — CO. Berks: 25 — co. Somerset. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. I, file 6, no. i). (s) Fine Roll, 2 Edw I, m. 19. ('') IVelsh Roll, 10 Edw. I, m. 6d: Sciitage Roll, no. 9, m. 4. (') As to this writ, see Preface. V.G. 59