Sir Philip COURTENAY
- Born: Abt 1340-1341, Exeter, Devonshire, England
- Married: Abt 1380, Powderham, Devonshire, England
- Died: 29 Jul 1406, Exeter, Devonshire, England
 Ancestral File Number: 8TSL-S3. User ID: 590976.
General Notes:
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BOOK
The Oxford History of England The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485, E F Jacob, Oxford Univ Press
p150: "...The heat and the damp from the marshes were not long in producing dysentery amongtroops only too ready, in the heat, to drink the polluted water, and the casualties were considerable. The numbers who died have been put as high as 2,000, but it seems more likely that the figure includes men sent home by royal license...Thesickness appears to have hit the generosi more freely than the rank and file. Bishop Courtenay, Henry V's young and gifted friend, the eldest son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham and a Devonshire landowner...[was] among those who died..."
ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File 8TSL-S3 Philip COURTENAY [SIR KNIGHT] Born Abt 1340, M0GB-1M Mar Abt 1380.
Philip COURTENAY (AFN:8TSL-S3) Brother of Edward COURTENAY (AFN:9FNZ-HT).
Marriage Information:
Philip married Anne Margaret WAKE, daughter of Sir Thomas WAKE, Jr and Alice PATTESHULL, about 1380 in Powderham, Devonshire, England. (Anne Margaret WAKE was born about 1342-1360 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England and died in 1390.)
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