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* Courtenay Robert Percy Vernon, 3rd Baron Lyveden ( 1857 – 1926 )
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Courtenay and Robert
Finney and Courtenay were both nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards for their performances, with Courtenay winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama in a tie with Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies.
Her husband, Peter of Courtenay, was third emperor of the Latin Empire ( also known as Romania, not to be confused with modern Romania ), and had been followed by his son Robert of Courtenay, on whose death in 1228 the succession passed to Baldwin, then an 11-year-old boy.
She established herself at Calais and organized two fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, and an army under Robert of Courtenay.
Coat of arms of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Robert of Courtenay from " Guillaume Rouillé | Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum "
Robert of Courtenay ( died 1228 ), emperor of the Latin Empire, or of Constantinople, was a younger son of the emperor Peter II of Courtenay, and a descendant of the French king, Louis VI, while his mother Yolanda of Flanders was a sister of Baldwin and Henry of Flanders, the first and second emperors of the Latin Empire.
When it became known in France that Peter of Courtenay was dead, his eldest son, Philip, Marquis of Namur, renounced the succession to the Latin empire of Constantinople in favor of his brother Robert, who set out to take possession of his distracted inheritance, which was then ruled by Conon of Béthune as regent.
After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.
At the battle of Poimanenon in 1224, the Latin army was defeated, and by the next year Emperor Robert of Courtenay was forced to cede all his Asian possessions to Nicaea, save Nicomedia and the territories directly across Constantinople.
A regency was set up in Constantinople, headed by Peter's widow, Yolanda of Flanders until 1221, when her son Robert of Courtenay was crowned Emperor.
Warin died in 1296 but his son Robert eventually won seisin of Heyford Warren in 1310, except for two and a half virgates that were awarded to de Courtenay.
Courtenay and Percy
On 9 May 2007, he appeared in the BBC Four production of Miss Marie Lloyd-Queen of The Music Hall playing Marie Lloyd's first husband, Percy Courtenay.
Courtenay and Vernon
Harcourt was born in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, the only surviving son of politician Sir William Vernon Harcourt and his first wife Maria Theresa Lister.
The BCSC also holds sittings in the following court locations for which there is not a resident justice: Campbell River ; Courtenay ; Dawson Creek ; Duncan ; Fort Nelson ; Fort St. John ; Golden ; Penticton ; Port Alberni ; Powell River ; Quesnel ; Revelstoke, Rossland ; Salmon Arm ; Smithers ; Terrace ; Vernon ; and Williams Lake.
Courtenay and 3rd
Arms of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( 1475 – 1511 ): Quarterly 1st & 4th, Courtenay ; 2nd & 3rd Redvers, as sculpted on south porch of St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon, impaling the arms of King Edward IV, the father of his wife Princess Katherine
* Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Devon ( 1498 – 1539 ) ( heir to both 3rd and 4th creations after 1512 ; attainted 1538 / 9 ) son of William above.
* William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon, 3rd Viscount Courtenay ( 1768 – 1835 ) ( retrospectively revived 1831 †)
* Arms of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon ( d. 1859 ), impaling the arms of his wife Hariet Leslie: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Pepys, Baronets of Juniper Hill ; 2nd & 3rd: Leslie, Earls of Rothes.
* William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon & 3rd Viscount Courtenay ( 1768 – 1835 ) ( son ) In 1831 he successfully established his right to the Earldom of Devon created in 1553, thus retrospectively making his ancestors Earls of Devon de jure.
Baudouin de Courtenay was the editor of the 3rd ( 1903 – 1909 ) and 4th ( 1912 – 1914 ) editions of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language complied by Russian lexicographer Vladimir Dahl ( 1801 – 1872 ).
Courtenay and Baron
In 1451 during the Wars of the Roses Taunton was the scene of a skirmish between Thomas de Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon and Baron Bonville.
He was made Baron Nuneham, of Nuneham Courtenay in the County of Oxford, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Their distant cousin at Powderham, Sir William Courtenay ( d. 1485 ) married Margaret Bonville, daughter of William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville ( 1392 – 1461 ), which confirmed Powderham as a Bonville stronghold against the Earls of Devon.
These are the arms of Sir William Courtenay ( d. 1485 ), husband of Margaret Bonville, daughter of William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville ( d. 1461 )
In May 1537 he was one of the peers summoned for the trial of lords Darcy and Hussey and he was also on the panel of 3 December 1538 for the trial of Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, and Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, his own brother-in-law.
Yet there is no evidence to suggest that Courtenay ever had the means to or intended to muster any kind of rebellion against the King, the charges brought against Lord Exeter were based on the correspondence he had with Cardinal Pole and the testimony of Sir Geoffrey Pole, whose brother Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu was also arrested and beheaded alongside Courtenay and another supposed plotter Sir Nicholas Carew KG, the Master of the Horse to Henry VIII on 9 December 1538 on Tower Hill.
Other rebels, aside from Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, included Sir Henry Isley, Lord John Grey of Wilton, Lord Thomas Grey ( Henry Grey's brother ), Sir William Thomas ( Clerk of the Privy Council ), Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton, Sir Nicholas Arnold and Sir William St Loe.
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