caption death_date children parents spouse image article_title name
battle 's chronicle of crecy from a 15th-century manuscript of froissart 1346/7 emeline dawney nicholas & elizabeth dawney sybil treverbyn battle_of_crecy_froissart . jpg john dawney
 sir john dawney
john dawney

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 .
john dawney served in king edward iii 's expedition to honfleur in 1346 , and fought at the battle of crécy on 26 august 1346 , for which he was made a knight banneret .
he died shortly after the battle , in 1346/7 .
dawney married sybil treverbyn , the daughter of walter de treverbyn of treverbyn , cornwall .
they had one surviving child , a daughter emeline or emme -lrb- c. 1329 -- 28 february 1371 -rrb- , who married sir edward courtenay -lrb- c. 1331 -- 1368x1371 -rrb- , third son of hugh courtenay , 10th earl of devon , and by him had two sons , edward and hugh .
the elder son , edward -lrb- c. 1357 -- 5 december 1419 -rrb- , 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 -lrb- for which see earl of devon -rrb- , by a new creation in 1485 to edward courtenay , 1st earl of devon -lrb- d. 1509 -rrb- , the grandson of sir hugh courtenay of haccombe and bampton -lrb- 1358 -- 1425 -rrb- , brother of the 11th earl .
emme dawney is said to have brought an estate consisting of ` fifteen large manors in cornwall ' to the courtenay family .
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 ' .
