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3 unusual facts about Courtenay


Aristide Bruant

Born Louis Armand Aristide Bruand in the village of Courtenay, Loiret in France, Bruant left his home in 1866 at age fifteen, following his father's death, to find employment.

Barter

Michael Linton originated the term "local exchange trading system" (LETS) in 1983 and for a time ran the Comox Valley LETSystems in Courtenay, British Columbia.

School District 71 Comox Valley

This includes the communities of Courtenay, Comox and Cumberland as well as the surrounding rural areas and the adjacent islands of Denman and Hornby.


Amicie de Courtenay

Amicie of Courtenay (1250–1275) was a French noblewoman and a member of the Capetian House of Courtenay, a cadet line of the House of Capet.

Arabesk

Arabesk trilogy, a sequence of alternate history novels by the British author Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Art Ellefson

He moved to Courtenay, British Columbia in 1988, taught at Malaspina College in Nanaimo and formed a quartet, called Modus, that included his son Lee, a guitarist.

Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough

Cyril Myles Brabazon Ponsonby, second son of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife Rita Narcissa Longfield, daughter of Lt. Col. Mountifort John Courtenay Longfield.

Ayshford Chapel

Grace's brother James Courtenay of Meshaw had married as his first wife Susanna Sanford, sister of John Sanford (d.1711) the eventual heir of Ayshford, whose tombstone can be seen in Molland Church.

Colyton, Devon

Situated 1/2 mile to the north of the village was Colcombe Castle, now demolished, a former seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon.

Counts of Castres

1240-1270 : Philip II of Montfort († 1270), Lord of Castres, son of Philip of Montfort and d'Éléonore de Courtenay.

:Married to Éléonore de Courtenay († avant 1230), daughter of Peter II of Courtenay and Yolanda of Flanders.

Ermengarde of Nevers

She married Miles (Milo) de Courtenay (died 1127), son of Jocelin de Courtenay and Isabel, daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry.

FL3

Florida State Road 3, also known as North Courtenay Parkway, a north–south road serving as the southern access for the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida

Henry Boswell Bennett

Courtenay promised his followers a better future with greater equality and fairer distribution of wealth, addressing their concerns about low wages, lack of work, and the New Poor Law.

Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon

Charles Peregrine Courtenay, Lord Courtenay (b. 1975), who is married to Allison Joy, Lady Courtenay, (A.J.) née Langer, with 2 children: a daughter, The Hon. Joscelyn Skye Courtenay (b. 31 January 2007), and a son, The Hon.

John Edward Courtenay Bodley

Shane Leslie (1930), Memoir of John Edward Courtenay Bodley

Joscelin I, Count of Edessa

He was the son of Joscelin I, Lord of Courtenay, born in 1034, and wife Isabella (or Elizabeth), daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry.

Margaret Beaufort

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon (c. 1409–1449), the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the mother of both Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon and John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon.

Natasha Courtenay-Smith

Courtenay-Smith has appeared as a media expert on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Breakfast.

Orca wetsuits and sports apparel

Orca sponsors a number of leading triathletes, including recently retired Olympic champion Hamish Carter, ITU athletes including Kris Gemmell, Courtenay Atkinson, Tim Don and Debbie Tanner, and Ironman competitors including Craig Alexander and Cameron Brown.

Peter Courtenay

The rising failed, and Courtenay fled to the continent, joining Tudor in exile at Vannes, Brittany.

Peter I of Courtenay

Peter I of Courtenay (September 1126 – 10 April 1183) was the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second queen consort, Adélaide de Maurienne.

Philip Courtenay

Philip Courtenay I (died 1488) of Molland, Devon; or his descendents Philip Courtenay II and Philip Courtenay III

Renaud de Courtenay

Renaud de Courtenay ( – September 27, 1194) (Anglicised to "Reginald") was a French nobleman of the House of Courtenay who came over to England, of Sutton, Berkshire.

Seneca, South Carolina

Textile mills came into the area with the construction of a plant-and-mill village by the Courtenay Manufacturing Company in Newry on the Little River in 1893.

Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet

Sir Courtenay Pole, 2nd Baronet (1619–95), of Shute, Devon, was an English politician.

Sir Philip II Courtenay

In about 1426 Courtenay married Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons, Steward of the Household to KingsHenry V and Henry VI, and Lord High Treasurer.

Sri Gading

Other local brand like Miaow Miaow Food Products Sdn Bhd, New Star Food Industries Sdn Bhd, PCCS, LY Furniture & Ramatex, multinational corporation like Fujitsu, Sharp Roxy & J.R. Courtenay had their factories in Sri Gading.

The Dresser

Finney and Courtenay were both nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards for their performances, with Courtenay winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama in a tie with Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies.

The play opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 9 November 1981 and ran for 200 performances, with Tom Courtenay repeating his performance as Norman and Paul Rogers as "Sir".

Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

#Amy, born 1661, died 1693, married in October 1681 John Courtenay (d.1724) of Molland, Devon.

Thomas Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon

Courtenay married, at Coventry, Warwickshire, shortly after 9 September 1456, Mary of Anjou, illegitimate daughter of Charles, Count of Maine.

Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay

He was distantly related to the Courtenay family who held the title Earls of Devon and were seated at Powderham Castle in Exeter, and was a distant cousin to the novelist Maria Edgeworth, but his own family was not well-to-do.

Thomas Warner

Sir Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet (Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner, 1857–1934), British politician

Waimakariri River

In 1849, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, Joseph Thomas, gave the river the name Courtenay River after Lord Courtenay, but it lapsed into disuse.

William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon

The arms are Courtenay impaling the arms of his wife's father as Duke of York: Quarterly 1st: Royal arms of Lionel, Duke of Clarence; second and third, Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster; fourth, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March.

William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay

William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (11 February 1709–16 May 1762), also de jure 7th Earl of Devon, was a British peer.

His arms (Courtenay with each point of the label charged with three plates for difference) are impaled by the arms of the See of Winchester.

Zaleski

Władysław Michał Zaleski (pseudonym Pierre Courtenay, G. Francis; 1852–1925), Polish botanist, traveller, writer, archbishop


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