Robert de Courtenay

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Okehampton, Devonshire, England

Lord Renaud de Courtenay

Hawisa de Eyncourt

Lord Milo de Courtenay

Ermengarde de Nevers

Robert de Abrancis

Reginald

Henry

Renaud

Isabelle

Egeline

Iwerne Manor, Dorset, England

Ford Abbey

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Baron Oakhampton
Viscount of Devonshire
Robert de Courtenay, eldest son of Sir Reginald de Courtenay and his 2nd wife, Hawisa D'Eincourt, succeeded as Baron Oakhampton, Viscount of Devonshire and Governor of the Castle Exeter, and Governor of Bruge, now Bridgeworth, 1214. He died July 26, 1242 and was buried at Ford Abbey. In the year 1205, in the 7th year of King John's reign, he gave 500 œ and 5 palfries to have livery of the barony of Oakhampton, with the knights fees thereto, which were no less than 92. In the 12th year of King John, to be released from debt, he covenanted to serve the King with 20 men at arms, at his own charge. In 17th of King John he was made Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Governor of the Castle of Oxford. In 16th of Henry II, 1232, the King commanded him to deliver the Castle of Exeter to Peter de Riveaux, his favorite, by which the family of Courtenay was deprived of the honour and profit of the Viscounty of Devonshire after it had been enjoyed by them and their ancestors for nearly 200 years, although Robert de Courtenay had been faithful to the King and his father on many occasions. At his death his remains were deposited in Ford Abbey in the chancel of the church there with great pomp; and a stately monument, in the form of a pyramid, was erected to his memory. He married Mary, youngest daughter of William de Redvers, Earl of Devonshire, by whom his posterity sometime after became Earls of Devonshire.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 283-284)

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Athon de Courtenay
  - b.~  0985 in Courtenay, France d.>  1000 in France
  
  Josceline de Courtenay
  - b.~  1034 in Courtenay, France d.1079 in Montlhery, Seine-Et-Oise, France
  
  Lord Milo de Courtenay
  - b.~  1069 in Courtenay, France d.1127 in France
  
  Guy de Montlhery
  - b.0998
  
  Signeur Gui Milo de Montlhery
  - b.1009 d.1095
  
  Isabel de Montlhery
  - b.1040 in Montlhery, Soise, France
  
  Guillaume de Gometz
  - b.0998
  
  Hilduin de Gometz
  - b.1014 d.07 Dec 1074
  
  Lord Renaud de Courtenay
  - b.~  1100 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.>  1161 in France
  
  Renaud de Nevers ^*
  - b.~  0990 d.29 May 1040 in Sauvigny, Le Bougvinon
  
  William de Nevers I
  - b.~  1030 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.20 Jun 1100 in Nevers, France
  
  Princess Adelais Capet of France ^*
  - b.~  1003 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monasteraere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
  
  Count Renaud Nevers
  - b.1047 in Nevers, France d.05 Aug 1089 in Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
  
  Renaud de Tonnerre ^*
  - b.~  0990 in Tonnerre, France d.16 Jul 1039
  
  Ermengarde de Tonnerre
  - b.~  1030 in Tonnere, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
  
  Hawise de Noyon ^*
  - b.~  0994 in Noyon, Oise, Picardy, France
  
  Ermengarde de Nevers
  - b.~  1078 in Nevers, France d.1100 in France
  
  Geraud de Forez II ^*
  - b.~  1018 d.1058
  
  Artald de Forez IV
  - b.~  1040
  
  Adelaide
  
  Ida de Forez
  - b.~  1060 in Le Forez, France
  
  Robert de Courtenay
  - b.~  1170 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England d.26 Jul 1242 in Iwerne Manor, Dorset, England
  
  Robert de Abrancis
  
  Hawisa de Eyncourt
  - d.30 Jul 1209
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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