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 330 DEVON forfeited by reason of the attainder of his son and heir. Will dat. 27 May, pr. II July 1509. Inq. p. m. i Hen. VIII. XVIII. 15 II. 9. William Courtenay, only s. and h., b. about 1475; K.B. (being then styled Lord Courtenay) 25 Nov. 1487, at the Coronation of Elizabeth, the Queen Consort; Captain in the Royal army, and aided his father in defeating Perkin Warbeck, at Black- heath, 22 June 1497. Having w., in or before Oct. 1495, Katherine Plantagenet, 6th da. of Edward IV, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Wydeville, he became an object of jealousy to Henry VII, by whom he was imprisoned, 1503-09, for alleged (but not proved) complicity 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, although at first excepted from the general pardon, 30 Apr. 1509, he was received into favour by Henry VIII, at whose Coronation, 24 June 1509, he bore the Third Sword. By indenture dat. 12 Apr. 151 1, the King, on his petition and that of Lady Katherine his wife, undertook to cause his attainder to be reversed at the next Pari. On 9 May 151 1 he had a grant by which the King restored him to all the rights, privileges and powers of an English subject lost by his attainder in the Pari, of 19 Hen. VII, and his attainder was reversed on that day.(") On 10 May 15 11, he was cr. EARL OF DEVON, with the usual rem. to heirs male of his body; and though his investiture, fer'c., was never completed, he was, by royal warrant, bur. with the honours due to an Earl. He d. of pleurisy, 9 June 151 1, at Greenwich, and was bur. at the Black Friars', London. C") Fun. cert, at Coll. of Arms. His widow and executrix, who was b. at Eltham, Kent, 1479, took the vow of perpetual chastity, 13 July 151 1, and d. at Tiverton, Devon, 15 Nov., and was bur. there 3 Dec. 1527. M.I. Fun. cert, at Coll. of Arms. XIX. 151 1 10. Henry (Courtenay), Earl of Devon, ist and and only surv. s. and h., b. about 1498; obtained in 1 5 12 Dec. 1 5 12, in the Pari, of 4 Hen. VIII, a reversal of s to father's attainder (in 1 504), whereby he sue. to the Earl- 1539. dom of Devon, as held by his grandfather, having, the year previous, sue. to the Earldom of Devon conferred (in 151 1) on his father. P.C. and Gentleman of the privy chamber 1520; he attended the King at the Field of Cloth of Gold i52o;('') nom. K.G. 24 Apr. and inst. 9 June i 52 i ; Keeper of Burling Park, Kent, Apr. 1522; Fligh Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall and Warden of the Stannaries May 1523; Constable of Windsor Castle 1525. On 18 June 1525, (^) Patent Roll, 3 Hen. VIII, /.. 3, «. i. (*>) A few months before, he was one of the 4 challengers (the King, Sir Thomas Knyvett and Sir William Nevill being the others) at a splendid tournament held at Westminster. An emblazoned roll depicting the same is at the College of Arms. (') For an account of the Field of Cloth of Gold, see vol. vi, Appendix B.