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Sir James Luttrell was mortally wounded at the Battle of St. Albans.
Contributor: Marcine (Amelung) Lohman (47436906) •
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Married Elizabeth Courtenay in the chapel at Powderham Castle by the rector Thomas Froome, with a license issued Jan. 13, 1450 by Bishop Lacy.
Sir James Luttrell (1426/7-1461)(son)[29] He was a minor aged 3 or 4 at his father's death and as a tenant-in-chief became a ward of the king, who sold the wardship of his lands to John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the wardship and marriage of his person to Humphrey Stafford, 6th Earl of Stafford (1402–1460) (created Duke of Buckingham in 1444), who re-sold to Sir Philip Courtenay (1404–1463) of Powderham, Devon, great-grandson of Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (died 1377), who in 1450 in the chapel at Powderham Castle[30] married him off to his daughter Elizabeth Courtenay (died 1493),[29] (the couple were cousins, both descended from Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (died 1377)) sister of Peter Courtenay (died 1492) Bishop of Exeter and of Sir Philip Courtenay (b.1445) of Molland, sometime MP and Sheriff of Devon in 1471. Elizabeth Courtenay survived her husband and remarried twice:
Firstly to Sir Humphrey Audley (alias Touchet) (c. 1434 – 1471), a younger son of James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 1459) by his second wife Eleanor de Holland. By Sir Humphrey Audley she had children including Philipa Audley, wife of Richard Hadley of Withycombe in Somerset (see below).
Secondly to Thomas Malett of Enmore in Somerset.
Sir James Luttrell died fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the Battle of St Albans in 1461. He was posthumously attainted for high treason and his lands were forfeited to the crown. In 1463 his lands were granted to William Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert (1423–1469), of Raglan,[31] created in 1468 Earl of Pembroke.
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