Rt Hon. Marquess Henry Courtenay PC (1498-1538)

Privy Counsellor, 2nd Earl of Devon (1511-1538), 278th Knight of the Order of the Garter (1521-1539), and 1st Marquess of Exeter (from 1525)

Died aged 40

Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Devon (c. 1498 – 9 December 1538), KG, PC, feudal baron of Okehampton, feudal baron of Plympton, of Tiverton Castle, Okehampton Castle and Colcombe Castle all in Devon, was a grandson of King Edward IV, nephew of the queen consort, Elizabeth of York and a first cousin of King Henry VIII. Henry Courtenay was a close friend of Henry VIII, having "been brought up of a child with his grace in his chamber".
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Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon 1538 Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, KG 1540 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1547 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset 1552 Sir Thomas Wyatt 1554 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk 1572 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 1641

Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom where they was executed (1538)