Peter Courtenay

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Peter Courtenay
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Winchester
Title Bishop of Winchester
Period in office 1487–1492
Predecessor William Waynflete
Successor Thomas Langton
Religious career
Previous bishoprics Bishop of Exeter
Previous post Dean of Windsor
Dean of Exeter
Personal
Date of death September 22, 1492

Peter Courtenay (died September 23, 1492) was an English prelate. He was a grandnephew of Richard Courtenay.

Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, Peter became dean of Windsor, then dean of Exeter.[citation needed] About June 14, 1478 he was elected Bishop of Exeter and was consecrated on November 8, 1478.[1] He was translated January 29, 1487 to the see of Winchester in succession to William Waynflete.[2] 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.[3]

He died on the 22 September 1492.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
  2. ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 277
  3. ^ Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 96

[edit] References

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  • Wylie, J. H. History of England under Henry IV. (London, 1884-1898)
  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Political offices
Preceded by
John Gunthorp		 Lord Privy Seal
1485–1487		 Succeeded by
Richard Foxe
Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
John Booth		 Bishop of Exeter
1478–1487		 Succeeded by
Richard Foxe
Preceded by
William Waynflete		 Bishop of Winchester
1487–1492		 Succeeded by
Thomas Langton
Persondata
NAME Courtenay, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Exeter; Bishop of Winchester; Lord Privy Seal
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1492
PLACE OF DEATH