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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY
Date: 11 Mar 1998 06:53:44 GMT


According to Vivian's Visitations of Devon (p. 246), Sir William Courtenay of
Powderham, son of Sir William and Margaret (Bonville) Courtenay, married only
one wife, Cecily Cheyney. As she was her husband's executor in 1512, he would
not have had a second wife. Sir William's son, another Sir William Courtenay
of Powderham, called "the Great," died 24 Nov. 1535. He married (1) Margaret
Edgcombe, and (2) Mary Gainsford, daughter of Sir John Gainsford. It was this
Mary who remarried (2) Sir Anthony Kingston of Cadleigh. She died in 1572.
Gertrude Courtenay, wife of Sir John Chichester of Raleigh, was daughter of Sir
WIlliam by the second wife Mary Gainsford. Vivian also has a detailed account
of the Chichester family of Raleigh on pp. 172--5.

pcr

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