Renaud I Sire de Courtenay 
Renaud I Sire de was born about 1100 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France. Renaud I Sire de's father was Miles (Milo) SIre de Courtenay and his mother was Ermengarde de Nevers. His paternal grandparents were Joscelin I (Jocelin) Sire de Courtenay and Elizabeth Isabel de Montlhery; his maternal grandparents were Renaud II Comte de Auxerre & Nevers and Ida Comtessa de Forez. He was an only child. He died in 1161 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England.General Notes
Renaud de Courtenay, Lord of Courtenay; accompanied Louis VII of France on the Second Crusade but quarreled with him so that Louis seized his French possessions and bestowed them, with Renaud's daughter (Elizabeth) in marriage, on his (Louis') own younger brother Pierre; Renaud subsequently threw in his lot with the English kings and was granted the Lordship of Sutton (now Sutton Courtenay), on the Berks-Oxon borders by Henry II 1161; accompanied Henry II to Wexford in the Irish expedition of 1172; married 1st Hedwige (living 1148-58), sister of Guy du Donjon; married 2nd Maud, Dame du Sap (dsp 1224), daughter of Robert Fitz Roy (illegitimate son of Henry I of England) by his wife Maud d'Avranches. [Burke's Peerage]
Note: I consider there to be two Renaud de Courtenay's: Renaud I married Hedwige du Donjon and his son, Renaud II married 1st Hawise Deincourt and 2nd Maud du Sap (dsp 1224).
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of Sutton, Berkshire, England; Sire de Courtenay; exiled 1150. [Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD, 1998]
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The story is told that the great possesions in France of Renaud de Courtenay (a man of high social rank and described in personal terms as in effect a glorified bandit) were seized abt 1150 by King Louis VII who granted them to his own youngest brother, Pierre (ancestor of the French Courtenays), with Renaud's daughter, Elizabeth, in marriage, and that Renaud then appeared in England as a minor functionary of the English Court with a small manor and another family. [Ancestral Roots, Frederick Weis, line 138]
Ancestral Roots also discounts Renaud II being the son of Milo (ie. Renaud I and Renaud II in my genalogy, which AR seems to consider the same person) because of dates and social standings, but does not seem to address the possibility of a Reginald [d. 1194 - line 138-25), son of Renaud II (d. 1190 - line 138-24), son of Renaud I (d. 1161 - line 107-24), son of Milo [d. 1127 - line 107-23).
Since according to Burke, Elizabeth's marriage was 1150, Renaud lost his French lands and went to England on or about 1150. His children were born in France, while he still had possession of his French estates.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0935 in Sens, Yonne, Bourgogne, France d.0996
- b.~ 0962 in Sens, Yonne, Bourgogne, France d. in Renard, Rhone, Beajolais, Lyonnais/Rhone-Alpes, France
- b.0985 in Sens, Yonne, Bourgogne, France d.~ 1034 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France
- b.1034 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1079
- b.~ 1075 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.> 1127 in France
- b.~ 0984 in La Ferte-Alais, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France d.> 1057
- b.1009 in Montlhery, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France d.1095
- b.~ 0970 in Montlhery, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France d.1031
- b.~ 0990 in Montlhery, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1040 in Montlhery, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
- b.0975 in Gometz, Yvelines, Ile de France, France
- b.1014 in Gometz, Yvelines, Ile de France, France d.>01 Dec 1074 in La Ferte-Alais, Essonne, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1100 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1161 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 0967 in Maers, Nevers, France d.11 May 1028 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 1000 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.29 May 1040
- b.~ 0984 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 1030 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.20 Jun 1100
- b.0985 in Orleans, Loiret, Orleanais/Centre, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1010 in France d.~ 1063
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1047 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.05 Aug 1089 in Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
- b.0950 in Tonnerre, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0979 in Tonnerre, Bourgogne, France
- b.0955 in Brienne-le-Chateau, Aube, Champagne, France d.< 0980
- b.~ 1030 in Tonnerre, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 1078 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.1100 in France
- b.~ 0985 in Le Forez, Loire, Lyonnais/Rhone-Alpes, France d.1058
- b.~ 1020 in Le Forez, Loire, Lyonnais/Rhone-Alpes, France d.1076
- b.~ 1000 in Gevaudan, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France
- b.~ 1042 in Le Forez, Loire, Lyonnais/Rhone-Alpes, France d.1085
- b.~ 1025 in France
- b.~ 1062 in Le Forez, Loire, Lyonnais/Rhone-Alpes, France d.> 1092
- b.~ 1044 in France
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‌Renaud I Sire de and Hedwige du were married in a religious ceremony before 1127. They had two sons and a daughter, named Renaud II Sire de, Gervase de and Elizabeth de.
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Children
Renaud II Sire de Courtenay
Renaud II Sire de was born about 1125 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France. He died before December 1190 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England. He was buried in Ford Abbey, Devonshire, England.
Elizabeth de Courtenay
Elizabeth de was born about 1130 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France. She died on September 14th, 1205 in France.
Gervase de Courtenay , of Wollacombe
Gervase de was born about 1135 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France. He died in Wollacombe Manor, Bradninch, Devonshire, England.
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