William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay


William Courtenay, 8th Earl de jure of Devon was the eldest son of William Courtenay 7th de jure Earl of Devon, and Lady Frances Finch.
He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay of Powderham Castle and 8th Earl of Devon on 16 May 1762 upon the death of his father.

Family

He married Lady Frances Clack on with whom he had the following children.
  1. Frances Courtenay married Sir John Honywood, 4th Baronet on 13 June 1788.
  2. Charlotte Courtenay married Thomas Giffard.
  3. Isabella Courtenay died when her clothes caught fire
  4. Elizabeth Courtenay married Lord Charles Henry Somerset in June, 1788.
  5. William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon
  6. Lucy Courtenay married John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne on 2 August 1798.
  7. Harriet Courtenay married George Thynne on 9 May 1797.
  8. Anne Courtenay married George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris on 3 September 1790.
  9. Caroline-Eustatia Courtenay married Colonel Charles Morland on 14 June 1812.
  10. Matilda-Jane Courtenay married John Lock.
  11. Sophia Courtenay married Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Foy in December 1804.
  12. Louisa Augusta Courtenay married Lord Edward Somerset on 17 October 1805.
And one illegitimate child. The mother of this child is unknown, all that is known is the child had the surname "Vane" and she was "akin" to Sir Henry Vane the Younger who died of beheading in 1662 over one hundred years earlier].
  1. Mary Ann Vane married Louis Chevalier, Seigneur du Saint-Paul of Quebec in approximately 1799. They had three children, Mary Sophia Chevalier, Philip David Chevalier and Mary Anne Chevalier.