Peter Courtenay
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Peter Courtenay (Died September 23, 1492) English prelate. A grandnephew of Richard Courtenay.
Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, Peter became dean of Windsor, then dean of Exeter; in 1478 Bishop of Exeter; and in 1487 Bishop of Winchester in succession to William Waynflete. 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, and he died on the 23rd of September 1492.
See J. H. Wylie, History of England under Henry IV. (London, 1884-1898)
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| Preceded by John Booth |
Bishop of Exeter 1478–1487 |
Succeeded by Richard Foxe |
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
