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Hace 4 días · 1511 – Death of Henry VIII's uncle, William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, at Greenwich. He died of pleurisy and was buried at Blackfriars, London, with the honours due an earl, even though he hadn't been officially invested yet. See video below.
Hace 1 día · On this day in Tudor history, 12th June, Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, got cross with him, telling him to abandon his "wicked life"; ... 1511 – Burial of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, at Blackfriars. 1530 – Catherine of Aragon told Henry VIII to abandon his “wicked” life.
Hace 4 días · "That one of the first Acts of the Reign of Queen Mary was to release this Edward Courtenay from Prison, and on the 3d of September 1553 that Queen created him Earl of Devon, by a Patent, in which the Limitation is expressed to be "Præfato Edwardo et hæredibus suis masculis in perpetuum."
Hace 3 días · William, son of Humphrey Courtenay of Tremeer and Trethurfe, married a coheiress of Kelland of Devonshire. This family became extinct, in the male line, by the death of Charles Kelland Courtenay, Esq., in 1761; his sisters and coheirs married the late William Poyntz, Esq., and Edmund, late Earl of Cork and Orrery.
Hace 1 día · After the extinction of this family, Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, was, in 1603, created Earl of Devonshire. The title became extinct by his death in 1606. In 1618, William Cavendish was created Earl of Devonshire, and the title has continued ever since in this noble family, who in 1694 were elevated to the dukedom. n7.
Hace 23 horas · Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon: d. 1509 c.1494 242 Alfonso, Duke of Calabria: 1448–1495 1493 Later Alfonso II, King of Naples 243 Edward Poynings: 1459–1521 c. 1499 ... William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale: 1757–1844 1807 Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland 635 Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley: 1760–1842
Hace 3 días · It was in about 1215 that she was married to Baldwin I, the sole male heir of William de Redvers, Earl of Devon.
