3rd Baron of Okehampton Sir Hugh de Courtenay

1249 - 1291  (41 years)

• Name	Sir Hugh de Courtenay  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	3rd Baron of Okehampton
  Birth	25 Mar 1249	Okehampton, Devon, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Eden	102nd great grandson of Adam and Eve
  Death	28 Feb 1291	Colyton, Devon, England   [2, 3]
  	Cullicombe Castle
  Burial	Exeter, Devon, England   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I15192	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	2nd Baron of Okehampton John de Courtenay,   b. 26 Jul 1224, Okehampton, Devon, England d. 3 May 1274, Devon, England (Age 49 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Isabel de Vere,   b. 1228, Totnes, Devon, England d. 11 Aug 1300, Okehampton, Devon, England (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1249	Devon, England
  Family ID	F5144	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Baroness Okehampton Eleanor le de Spencer,   b. 1248, Ryhall, Rutland, England d. 30 Sep 1328, London, England (Age 80 years)
  Children	1. Eleanor de Courtenay,   b. 1266, Okehampton, Devon, England d. 6 Jun 1301, Codnor, Derbyshire, England (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5556	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Mar 1249 - Okehampton, Devon, England Death - 28 Feb 1291 - Colyton, Devon, England Burial - - Exeter, Devon, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-COURTNEY (Eden) On Our Path to the Garden of Eden

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Hugh de Courtenay I 1251-1292. Sir Hugh de Courtenay I - Baron of Okehampton, Earl of Devon. Knight of Buckinghamshire. Son of Sir John de Courtenay and Lady Isabel de Vere. Grandson of Sir Robert de Courtenay, Sheriff of Devon and Oxfordshire and Mary de Vernon, Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford and Hawise de Quincy. Husband of Eleanor le Despenser, daughter of Sir Hugh le Despenser and Alivia Bassett. Father of three sons and four daughters: Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon John Courtenay Philip Courtenay Isabel de Courtenay, who married John de Saint John, 1st Lord St John of Basing Aveline de Courtenay Egeline de Courtenay Margaret de Courtenay Eleanor's maritagium included the manors of Wooton and Dunstredon. Hugh paid fines to the king twice in order to avoid military service, December of 1276 and June of 1287, but was in the army of West Wales in 1282 and summoned to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June 1283. The date of his death, 28th of February, has been recorded in the Forde Abbey records, but the Fine Rolls changed his death to March 5th. His Buckingham estate records state his death as "after the Feast of St Peter and to the Feast of the Exalted St Crucis." [S855] Wikipedia: Hugh de Courtenay, Hugh de Courtenay. Sir Hugh de Courtenay (1251–1292) was the son and heir of John de Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton, Devon, by Isabel de Vere, daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford. His son inherited the earldom of Devon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_de_Courtenay