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[[Category: France, Courtenay and Courtney Name Study]]
[[Category: England, Courtenay and Courtney Name Study]]
[[Category: Berkshire, Courtenay and Courtney Name Study]]
== Biography ==He was a witness in 1150 at Rouen, Normandy of charter of Henry, Duke of Normandy (later Henry II of England); in 1160 received grant of the Manor of Sutton, Berkshire from the king; from that date in constant attendance on the king, perhaps a royal secretary; in 1171 accompanied the king in his campaign in Ireland; appears holding land in Devonshire for the first time 1175-1176; in the king's train in his travels in England and France; accompanied Henry II to Wexford in the Irish expedition of 1172.
Burke´s Peerage records that Louis VII King of France quarrelled with Renaud while on the Second Crusade, confiscated his French possessions, and bestowed them on his younger brother Pierre whom he married to Renaud´s daughter Elisabeth. The same source records that Henry II King of England granted him the lordship of Sutton, Berkshire in 1161. "…Raginaldo de Cortenaio" subscribed the charter dated to [1169] under which Henry II King of England confirmed the donation of revenue from "manerio de Contona" [Compton] to Fontevraud by "Willelmus de Sancto Johanne et Robertus frater suus". The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Ford Abbey records the death “V Kal Oct 1194” of “Reginaldus de Courtenay”.
Ancestral Roots also discounts Renaud, d. 1190, being the same person as Renaud, d. 1161, son of Milo because of dates and social standings, but does not seem to address the possibility him being a grandson (ie. of Renaud/Reginald II (d. 1190 - line 138-24), son of Renaud/Reginald 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.

== Sources ==
* Tableaux Genealogiques des Souverains, France 22, Tab. 35
* The Complete Peerage, G.E.C., Eng. V, v. 3, p. 465, v. 4, p. 317
* Collins Peerage, Eng. Z-1, v. 6, p. 232-36
* Edmondson's Baronagum Genealogicum, Eng. AM, v. 4, p. 340
* Visitations of Devon, Devon 2, p. 243
* The Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 59
: RESEARCH NOTE: It is known the above wife was a sister of Guy du Donjon. There is some question whether the above couple actually had a daughter who married Avelon.



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Birth	Abt 1100	Courtenay, Loiret, Centre, France
Death	27 Sep 1189	Berkshire, England
Marriage		Josceline Donjon
Marriage		Helvise d'Avranches
Reference No		783578
Reference No
Reference No		60

Child	Isabella "Elizabeth" Courtenay (1143 - 1205)
Child	William Courtenay (1128 - 1217)
Child	Unknown Courtenay (1129 - )
Child	Gervase Courtenay (1133 - )

Spouse	Helvise d'Avranches (1132 - 1209)
Child	Aigeline Courtenay ( - 1219)

Spouse	Josceline Donjon ( - 1173)
Child	Reynold "Seigneur de Courtenay" Courtenay (1140 - 1194)
Child	Robert "Lord of Sutton" Courtenay (1145 - 1209)

Father	Milo "Miles" Courtenay (1069 - 1138)
Mother	Ermengarde Nevers (1085 - 1130)
Sibling	Joscelin de Courtenay (1096 - 1106)
Sibling	Renaud "Reynold" Courtenay (1098 - 1161)