Hugh Courtenay (died 1374)

Hugh Courtenay (c.1345 – 20 February 1374) was an English soldier and heir apparent to the earldom of Devon.

Through his grandmother, Margaret de Bohun (3 April 1311 – 16 December 1391), he was a descendant of King Edward I.

[4] On 8 January 1371 he was summoned to Parliament by writ directed to Hugoni de Courteney le fitz, whereby he is held to have become Baron Courtenay.

[6] Courtenay married firstly, Margaret de Bryan, daughter of Guy de Bryan and his first wife Joan, daughter of Sir John de Carew, and secondly, by papal dispensation dated 5 September 1363,[7] Maud Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and his wife, Joan, the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent.

[8] In Easter Week 1380, Maud Holland, remarried, at Windsor Castle, to Waleran, Count of Ligny and St Pol (d. 19 April 1415).