Edmund Courtenay

Family: Richmond's party · Role: knight · First appears: Richard III 10

Life events

• c. 1483 · Several defeated adherents fled by sea and reached Brittany.(Richard III 10 · 📍 duchie of Britaine)
  • With: Peter Courtenay Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset Edward Woodville William Brandon Thomas Brandon
  • “Some fled by sea, whereof the most part within a few daies after arriued safelie in the duchie of Britaine. Among which number were these persons; Peter Courtneie bishop of Excester, and sir Edmund Courtneie his brother, by king Henrie the seuenth after created earle of Deuonshire; Thomas marquesse Dorset, Iohn lord Welles, sir Iohn Bourchier, sir Edward Wooduile, a valiant man in armes, brother to quéene Elizabeth, sir Robert Willoughbie, sir Giles Daubneie, sir Thomas Arundell, sir Iohn Cheinie and his two brethren, sir William Barkelie, sir William Brandon, & Thomas his brother”

Richard III 10

• siblings with Peter Courtenay “Peter Courtneie bishop of Excester, and sir Edmund Courtneie his brother, by king Henrie the seuenth after created earle of Deuonshire”
• sworn: Henry VII “sir Edmund Courtneie his brother, by king Henrie the seuenth after created earle of Deuonshire”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.