Muriel de Moels

  General Notes:

Weis's Ancestral Roots. Sir Thomas de Courteney, son of Sir Hugh de Courteney and Agnes St. John, d. 1356, 4th son, of Woodhuish and Dunterton, Deven and Wootton Courtenay and Cricket Malherbe, Somerset; m. by 1337, Muriel Moels, daughter of Sir John de Moels by wife Joan Lovel, daughter of Sir Richard Lovel, Lord Lovel of Castle Cary, Somerset.
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  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Muriel, aged 15 in 1337, who married, without licence, after her father's death and before the inquisition on his lands, Sir Thomas de Courtenay, for which they received pardon 27 August 1337. On 6 Oct 1337, Thomas de Courtenay having done fealty, he and Muriel received their pourparty of her father's lands, and on 3 Mar 1337/8 their pourparty of knights' fees. In 1349, on the death of her aunt Margaret, late wife of Nicholas de Moels, Muriel received her share of the dower lands. Muriel and Thomas had one son, Hugh, who died s.p. and two daughters:
(a) Muriel, who m. Sir John de Dinham, and
(b) Margaret, who margaret Sir Thomas Peverel, and had two daughters
(i) Eleanor, who m. Sir William Talbot and died s.p.
(ii) Catherine, who married Sir Walter Hungerford.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, footnote (i) p. 8

Muriel married Sir Thomas de Courtenay Knight, son of Hugh de Courtenay Earl of Devon and Agnes de St. John. (Sir Thomas de Courtenay Knight was born in Woodleigh, Kingsbridege, Devon, England and died on 21 Aug 1356 in Woodhuish, Totnes, Devon, England ¹⁶⁰.)