Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko John I Courtenay (1466 <unk> 27 Poutu-te-rangi 1510) (tama matamua), i marena ki a Joan Brett, te tuahine o Robert Brett (i mate i te 1540), rangatira o te whare rangatira o Pilland i roto i te hahi o Pilton me te kaitiaki whakamutunga o Pilton Priory i te 1536 whai muri i tana whakakorenga i hokona te Whare o Prior (kua kiia nei ko "Bull House") i te taha o Pilton Church. I marenatia a Joan (i muri i te tau 1510), hei wahine tuarua, ko Sir John Chichester (i mate i te tau 1537) o Raleigh i roto i te hahi o Pilton, a, i ahu mai i a ia te peka o te whanau Chichester o Arlington. Ko te whānau Brett no Whitestaunton i Somerset, ā, i marenatia ki te rangatira o Pilland i te tōmuritanga o te rau tau 15. I tēnei rā, ko te whānau e whakahaeretia ana e te Kaunihera o Esher. Ko ngā ringa o Brett: "Ranei, he raiona e rere haere ana i waenganui i te ono o ngā rārangi rārangi rārangi rārangi". E ai ki a John Courtenay na John Stowe i whawhai mo Kingi Edward IV i te
Te Pakanga o Tewkesbury i te tau 1471. Ko te matua keke o Hoani ko Peter Courtenay (1440<unk>1492) Pihopa o Exeter i muri mai ko te Pihopa o Winchester. Ko tana tama tuarua na Joan Brett ko John Courtenay i marenatia ki a Elizabeth Chichester, he tamahine na James Chichester (i mate i te 1548) o Hall, Bishop's Tawton, a nana i whakatu he raina Courtenay cadet i noho tonu ki Molland, i te nohoanga kaore i mohiotia, tae noa ki te 18th. rau, me te marena ki te raina matua o Courtenay o Molland i heke mai i tana tuakana a Philip II. Ko te kohatu pukapuka a John I Courtenay (d.1510) e ora ana i roto i te Hahi o Molland, kua tuhia ki roto i te tuhinga Gothic i roto i te raina pukapuka penei: