John Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon
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Who is John Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon?
John Courtenay was a son of Thomas Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon and Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon.
He was the younger brother of Thomas Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon. He married Laura Bourchier although they have no known descendants. It was his brother who knighted him on 29 December 1460 after the Battle of Wakefield. After the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, Edward, Earl of March marched and took the capital from the Lancastrians. Parliament voted an attainder on his opposition, and John declared a traitor. The new King Edward IV marched north and sealed his reign with the bloody victory on Towton Field.
At the readeption of Henry VI on 9 October 1470, John was restored to ancestral lands by the Lancastrians. The Yorkists marched south and defeated the governing house lead by the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet, just outside London on 14 April 1471. The decisive Yorkist victory ended Henry VI's brief return to power and all nobility, including John Courtenay were deprived of their possessions, titles and honours. Still unmarried he died 4 May 1471 in the Battle of Tewkesbury.
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