“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.
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