Sir Philip II Courtenay of Powderham^{[1, 2]}

1404 - 1463  (59 years)

• Name	Philip II Courtenay of Powderham
  		Arms of Courtenay of Powderham
  		Arms of Courtenay and Boulogne
  Title	Sir
  Born	18 Jan 1404	Ashton, Devon, England
  Gender	Male
  Political	Lancastrian  [3]
  		Lancastrian
  Possessions	Powderham, Devon
  		Powderham Castle
  Died	16 Dec 1463
  Person ID	I11030	Dickinson
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	John de Courtenay of Powderham,   d. Bef 1415
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Joan Champernoun,   d. 1419
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F3092	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Hungerford
  Children	+ 1. William Courtenay of Powderham,   b. Abt 1428,   d. Sep 1485  (Age ~ 57 years)  [Birth] + 2. Philip I Courtenay of Molland,   d. 7 Dec 1489  [Birth]   3. Peter Courtenay,   b. Abt 1432,   d. 23 Sep 1492  (Age ~ 60 years)  [Birth]   4. Edmund Courtenay  [Birth]   5. John Courtenay  [Birth]   6. Anne Courtenay  [Birth] + 7. Elizabeth Courtenay,   d. 1 Sep 1493  [Birth]   8. Phillippe Courtenay  [Birth] + 9. Katherine Courtenay,   d. 12 Jan 1515
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2014
  Family ID	F3089	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 18 Jan 1404 - Ashton, Devon, England Possessions - - Powderham, Devon  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents

  Arms of Courtenay

  
  

• Sources

  [S336469] The Visitations of Cornwall, John Lambrick Vivain, ed. , ( Exeter: William Pollard & Co., 1887), p. 108. [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Sir Philip II Courtenay", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Philip_II_Courtenay. "Sir Philip II Courtenay (18 January 1404 - 16 December 1463) of Powderham,[a] Devon, was the senior member of a junior branch of the powerful Courtenay family, Earls of Devon." [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Sir Philip II Courtenay", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Philip_II_Courtenay. "[Philip of Powderham] had been badly treated by his distant cousin Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon (1414-1458), whose seat was at Tiverton Castle, and during the turbulent and lawless era of the Wars of the Roses, he supported the challenge against the earl, for local supremacy in Devon, put up by the Lancastrian courtier, Sir William Bonville (1392?1461), of Shute. Sir Philip's eldest son and heir Sir William Courtenay (d.1485) had married Bonville's daughter Margaret, cementing the alliance between the two men. On 3 November 1455 Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon (1414?1458) at the head of a private army of 1,000 men seized control of Exeter and its royal castle, the stewardship of which was sought by Bonville, and laid siege to nearby Powderham for two months. Lord Bonville attempted to raise the siege and approached from the east, crossing the River Exe, but was unsuccessful and was driven back by the Earl's forces. Sir Philip otherwise played a limited role in the Bonville-Courtenay feud. On 15 December 1455 the Earl of Devon and Lord Bonville met decisively at the Battle of Clyst Heath, where Bonville was defeated and after which the Earl sacked and pillaged Shute. Sir Philip swore fealty to King Edward IV (1461-1483) as an MP at Parliament."