John Courtenay (of Tremere)

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John Courtenay of Tremere (b. 1520/21 - d. 1560), Lanivet, near Bodmin in Cornwall, UK.

A younger son of a cadet line of the influential Devon family seated at Powderham, in his youth he appears to have been attached to Cromwell's household.

In the autumn of 1553 Courtenay used his family's connexion with Lostwithiel to have himself elected the town's junior Member in Mary's first Parliament. In the autumm of 1555, he was elected as a Member for Penryn.

He died on 1 Mar 1560, being buried at Lanivet, where a monument was erected to his memory. He left life interest in the Tremere property to his widow, who later married Thomas Arundell.