“ID: I17932
Name: Hugh DE COURTENAY
Sex: M
Birth: 25 MAR 1248 in Okehampton, Devon, England
Birth: ABT 1250 1
Death: 28 FEB 1291 in Colecomb, Devon, England 1
Burial: Cowick 1
Note:
Baron Oakhampton
Hugh de Courtenay, Baron Oakhampton, was 23 years old as appears by inquisition taken after the death of his father. In 1282, in the 10th of King Edward I, he was in the expedition then made into Wales, and afterwards in other expeditions, and had many contests with the monks of Ford relative to certain services he demanded of them as a patron of the Abbey, which his father had relinquished in their behalf. (He was one of the most powerful persons of his time, possessed of great estates and favorite of the unhappy Edward II. This last sentence refers to Hugh de Spenser, whose daughter Eleanor married this Hugh de Courtenay. This Hugh de Spenser, called the Elder, and his son Hugh were most prominent in their time and you descend from them also through John Whitney.) Through his wife Eleanor, Hugh de Courtenay had the manors of Wooten and Dunstredon, and had issue by her 2 sons and 4 daughters: Hugh, his successor, Philip, Isabel, wife of Sir John St. John of Basing, of whom further, Aveline, Egeline, and Margaret. He died at his house at Colecomb, which he built in Colliton Parish, Feb. 28, 1291, and his wife at the same place Oct. 1, 1328, after having been a widow above 30 years, and was interred near her husband at Cowick. Her mother was Oliva Bassett, heir of Philip, Lord Bassett of Wicomb in County Bucks.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 284)


Father: *John DE COURTENAY b: 26 JUL 1224 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England
Mother: Isabel DE VERE b: ABT 1228

Marriage 1 *Eleanor LE DESPENSER b: ABT 1252 in Ryhall, Rutland, England
Children
*Hugh DE COURTENAY b: 14 SEP 1273 in Okehampton, Devon, England
Philip DE COURTENAY b: ABT 1277 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England
Margaret DE COURTENAY b: ABT 1279 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England
Aveline DE COURTENAY b: ABT 1281 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England
*Egeline DE COURTENAY b: ABT 1282 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England
*Isabel DE COURTENAY b: ABT 1283 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England

Sources:
Title: Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith
Page: 284
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