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unusual facts about Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter



Almoner

In the United Kingdom, the Marquess of Exeter also holds the title of hereditary Grand Almoner.

Bill Arnull

By this time in his career, his principal patrons were Lord George Cavendish and the Marquess of Exeter

Edward Young

In view of these promises Young refused two livings in the gift of All Souls' College, Oxford, and sacrificed a life annuity offered by the Marquess of Exeter if he would act as tutor to his son.

Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu

Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, was arrested along with his wife and 11-year old son (his wife would be released two years later while their son spent 15 years in the Tower until his release by Queen Mary I on 3 August 1553).

Hordle

In 1537 the estate was granted to Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter and his wife Gertrude.

William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy

Mountjoy married firstly, about Easter 1497, Elizabeth Say, the daughter and coheir of Sir William Say of Essenden, Hertfordshire, by whom he had a daughter, Gertrude Blount, who married, on 25 October 1519, Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, and was a lady in waiting to Queen Mary.


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