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Born about 1475, he was styled Lord Courtenay. In or before October 1495 he married Catherine of York, daughter of King Edward IV, and they became the parents of two sons and a daughter. On 22 June 1497 at Blackheath, he aided his father in defeating Perkin Warbeck. Becoming an object of jealousy to King Henry VII, from 1503 till 1509 he was imprisoned for alleged, but not proven, complicity in the Earl of Suffolk's rebellion. Having been attainted, he was disabled to inherit his father's Earldom.
However, after the death of Henry VII, although at first excepted from the general pardon, he was received into favour by King Henry VIII at whose coronation, on 24 June 1509, he bore the Third Sword. By indenture, dated 12 April 1511, the king, on his petition and that of Lady Catherine his wife, undertook to cause his attainder to be reversed at the next Parliament.
On 9 May 1511 he received a grant by which the king restored him to all the rights, privileges and powers of an English subject lost by his attainder in the Parliament of Henry VII. This attainder was reversed on that day and on 10 May 1511, he was created Earl of Devon with the usual remainder to heirs male of his body. On 9 June 1511 at Greenwich, he died of pleurisy and was buried at the Black Friars', London.
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