Thomas COURTENAY

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Sir Thomas Courtenay (1315-1356), 4th son, of Wootton Courtenay in Somerset, and of Woodhuish, Brixham[9] in Devon, a military commander against the French, who died in 1356,[10] the date of the Battle of Poitiers. He married a great Somerset heiress, Muriel de Moels, the eldest of the two daughters and co-heiresses of John Moels, 4th Baron Moels, feudal baron of North Cadbury in Somerset. His wife's share of her paternal inheritance included the manors of Kings Carswell and Dunterton[11] in Devon, and Blackford, Holton and Lattiford in Somerset.[12] By his wife he had progeny as follows:

Hugh Courtenay (d.1369), only son and heir apparent who died without progeny, leaving his two sisters as co-heiresses.
Muriel Courtenay, co-heiress to her brother and heiress of King's Carswell in Devon, wife of Sir John II Dynham (1318– 1383), of Hartland and of Nutwell in Devon, feudal baron of Cardinham in Cornwall. Her son was Sir John III Dinham (1359-1428). The Dynham later family made King's Carswell one of their seats.
Margaret Courtenay, wife of Sir Thomas Peverell, from a cadet branch of Peverell of Sampford Peverell in Devon,[13] whose only daughter and sole heiress was Eleanor Peverell, wife of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford.

Thomas married Muriel DE MOELS.