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Birth:          ABT 1302 of Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          1347 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawney
Sir John Dawney or Dawnay (d.1346/7) was the eldest son of Nicholas Dawney (d. 
shortly before 15 Sep 1333)[1] of Mudford Terry, Somerset, and his wife, Elizabeth.

John Dawney's younger brother, Thomas Dawney of Escrick, Yorkshire, married 
Elizabeth, the daughter of John Newton of Snaith, Yorkshire, and was ancestor of the 
Viscounts Downe.[2]

John Dawney served in King Edward III's expedition to Honfleur in 1346,[citation 
needed] and fought at the Battle of Crécy on 26 August 1346, for which he was made 
a knight banneret.[3] He died shortly after the battle, in 1346/7.[4]

Dawney married Sybil Treverbyn, the daughter of Walter de Treverbyn of Treverbyn, 
Cornwall. They had one surviving child, a daughter Emeline or Emme (c. 1329 – 28 
February 1371), who married Sir Edward Courtenay (c.1331 – 1368x1371), third son of 
Hugh Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon, and by him had two sons, Edward and Hugh. 
The elder son, Edward (c. 1357 – 5 December 1419), inherited the earldom from his 
grandfather, the 10th Earl, and became 11th Earl of Devon. The 11th Earl married 
Maud Camoys, and the earldom remained in their descendants until their great-
grandson, Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon, was beheaded at York on 3 April 
1461 after the Battle of Towton, dying without issue. All his honours were forfeited by 
attainder, and the earldom eventually passed, after a brief period of confusion during 
the Wars of the Roses (for which see Earl of Devon), by a new creation in 1485 to 
Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (d.1509), the grandson of Sir Hugh Courtenay of 
Haccombe and Bampton (1358–1425), brother of the 11th Earl.[5]

Emme Dawney is said to have brought an estate consisting of "fifteen large manors in 
Cornwall" to the Courtenay family.[6]

Two effigies under a canopy in the south transept in the parish church of St. Peter 
and St. Paul at Sheviock, Cornwall, of a knight in gilded armour and his lady are 
considered to represent Sir Edward Courtenay and his wife, Emeline Dawney. A third 
effigy of a knight in the north aisle is said to represent Emeline's father, Sir John 
Dawney. The arms given by Lysons for the Dawney or De Alneto family are 'Argent, on 
a bend cotized sable, three annulets of the field'.[7]

Parents
DAWNEY Nicholas (ABT 1282 - BEF 15 Sep 1333)
____ Elizabeth (ABT 1282 - )

Siblings
DAWNEY John (ABT 1302 - 1347)

Marriage To DE TREVERBYN Sibyl (ABT 1300 - ABT 1360)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE TREVERBYN Walter (ABT 1265 - BEF 1301)
BLOYOU Margery (ABT 1275 - )

Children by DE TREVERBYN Sibyl ABT 1300 - ABT 1360
DAWNEY Emmeline (ABT 1329 - 28 Feb 1371)

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