Peter Courtenay, Bishop of Exeter and Winchester

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Peter COURTENAY (Bishop of Exeter and Winchester)

Born: ABT 1440

Died: AFT 16 Sep 1492

Buried: Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England

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Father: Phillip COURTENAY of Powderham and Molland (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth HUNGERFORD

Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, Courtenay was collated Archdeacon of Exeter on 8 June 1453[1]. He then became dean of Windsor, then Dean of Exeter[2] 14 June 1478 he was elected Bishop of Exeter and was consecrated on 8 November 1478.[3] He was translated 29 January 1487 to the see of Winchester in succession to William Waynflete.[4] With Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and others he attempted to raise a rebellion against Richard III in 1483, and fled to Brittany when this enterprise failed. Courtenay was restored to his dignities and estates in 1485 by Henry VII, whom he had accompanied to England,[citation needed] and was Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1485 to 1487.[5]

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