Viscount Courtenay
Viscount Courtenay , of Powderham Castle in the County of Devon , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain .
Award and history of the title
The title was created on May 6, 1762 for Sir William Courtenay, 3rd Baronet . Already in 1735 he had the title Baronet , of Powderham Castle in the County of Devon, created in February 1645 in the Baronetage of England by his father Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet (1676-1735) for his great-grandfather William Courtenay (1628-1702) , inherited.
On May 14, 1831, the Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the House of Lords confirmed to his grandson, the 3rd Viscount, that he was the legitimate heir of his sixth-degree great-great-great-great-uncle Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon († 1556) and confirmed to him the title of 9th Earl of Devon , as well as retrospectively his ancestral line as de iure -Earls.
With the childless death of the 3rd Viscount, the Viscountcy expired. The Earldom and the Baronetcy fell to the grandson of a brother of the 1st Viscount, William Courtenay, as 10th Earl.
List of Viscounts Courtenay (1762)
- William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay , de iure 7th Earl of Devon (1709 / 1710–1762)
- William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay , de iure 8th Earl of Devon (1742–1788)
- William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon , 3rd Viscount Courtenay (1768–1835)
Web links
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Devon, Earl of (E, 1553) at Cracroft's Peerage