John de Courtenay Lord of Okehampton
- Born: 26 Jul 1224, Okehampton, Devon, England
- Marriage: Isabel de Vere 141
- Died: 3 May 1274, Devonshire, England at age 49 141
- Buried: 5 May 1274, Ford Abbey, Devonshire, England
 General Notes:
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 317, Chart, John de Courtenay, of Okehampton, dl 3 May 1274 married Isabel, daughter of Hugh de Veer, Earl of Oxford. 141
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
John de Courtenay, father of Hugh, was son and heir of Robert, who d. 26 Jul 1242 at Iwerne Dorset, and was buried in the Abbey of Ford (by Mary---widow of Pierre de Preaux, daughter and in her issue heir of William, Earl of Devon), son and heir of Renaud (by Hawise, heir of Okehampton, m. before 1178, d. 31 July 1219), son and heir of Renaud de Courtenay, of Sutton, Berks (1161), who lost his great possessions in France about 1150, the French King, Louis VII, seizing them and granting them in appanage to his own youngest brother Pierre (ancestor of all the French Courtenays), with Renaud's daughter Elizabeth, in marriage: which Renaud was brother and heir of Guillaume, son and heir of Miles, son and heir of Josselin, son and heir of Athon, Sire de Courtenay and Chateau-Renard at the commencement of the 11th century.
~Cokayne's The Complete Peerage, Vol. III, footnote C, p.465
John married Isabel de Vere, daughter of Hugh de Vere Earl of Oxford and Hawise de Quincy.141 (Isabel de Vere was born in Totnes &, Barnstable, Devonshire, England and died 11 Aug before 7 Jan 1290/91) in Buckland Dinham, Frome, Somerset, England .)
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