Peter Courtenay

Peter Courtenay
Senior posting
Denomination	Catholic
See	Diocese of Winchester
Title	Bishop of Winchester
Period in office	1487–1492
Predecessor	William Waynflete
Successor	Thomas Langton
Religious career
Previous bishoprics	Bishop of Exeter
Previous post	Dean of Windsor Dean of Exeter
Personal
Date of death	September 22, 1492

Peter Courtenay (died September 23, 1492) was an English prelate. He was a grandnephew of Richard Courtenay.

Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, Peter became dean of Windsor, then dean of Exeter.^{[citation needed]} About June 14, 1478 he was elected Bishop of Exeter and was consecrated on November 8, 1478.^[1] He was translated January 29, 1487 to the see of Winchester in succession to William Waynflete.^[2] 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,^{[citation needed]} and was Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1485 to 1487.^[3]

[edit] Notes

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Wylie, J. H. History of England under Henry IV. (London, 1884-1898)
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Political offices
Preceded by John Gunthorp	Lord Privy Seal 1485–1487	Succeeded by Richard Foxe
Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by John Booth	Bishop of Exeter 1478–1487	Succeeded by Richard Foxe
Preceded by William Waynflete	Bishop of Winchester 1487–1492	Succeeded by Thomas Langton

Persondata
NAME	Courtenay, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Exeter; Bishop of Winchester; Lord Privy Seal
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1492
PLACE OF DEATH