The Courtenay Archive project makes available for the first time excerpts from a remarkable sequence of medieval and early modern manuscripts which provide a unique witness to the political, social and cultural history of England between the reign of Edward I and the outbreak of the Stuart Civil War in 1642. These manuscripts provide the only detailed record of one of the oldest of England’s lordships, the earldom of Devon, whose origins can be traced to the aftermath of the Norman Conquest... [more]
Explore the remarkable history of the earldom of Devon through a sequence of excerpts from medieval and early modern manuscripts, several of which belong to the archives of Powderham Castle, home of the Courtenay family for 600 years.
