RENAUD de Courtenay (-27 Sep [1189/94]). A charter dated to [1120/39] records donations for the foundation of the abbey of Notre-Dame des Echarlis, including a donation in the presence of "Milo de Curtiniaco et uxor eius Elisabeth et filii eorum Willelmus, Joscelinus, Rainaldus"[1718]. Sire de Courtenay. 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[1719]. The same source records that Henry II King of England granted him the lordship of Sutton, Berkshire in 1161[1720]. "…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"[1721]. The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Ford Abbey records the death "V Kal Oct 1194" of "Reginaldus de Courtenay"[1722]. m firstly [HELVIS de Donjon, daughter of FREDERIC de Donjon & his wife ---. Her parentage and marriage are shown in Europäische Stammtafeln[1723], but the primary source on which this is based has not yet been identified. It may be based partly on the Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines which names "domina de Monte-Argisi fuit soror vel neptis illius [=Guilelmus…archiepiscopus Bituricensis]" as the wife of "Petro de Cortenaio regis Philippi patruo"[1724], Guillaume Archbishop of Bourges being referred to in secondary sources as "Guillaume de Donjon". However, Archbishop Guillaume is not so named in his Vita, in which the only indication of his family background is that he was educated by "suo avunculo archidiacono Suessionis ecclesiæ…Eremita cognomine"[1725]. Another indication of his family origin is provided by a charter dated Jul 1223 of "Mathildis comitissa Nivernensis" who names him "avunculum suum"[1726], no doubt an extended use of the word "avunculum". La Saussaye, in his early 17th century work on the bishops of Orléans names "Geraldus Berruyerius, frater beati Gulielmi Bituricensis archiepiscopi" as the father of Philippe Berruier who was bishop of Orléans from 1221 to 1236[1727]. Until more primary source information emerges regarding the first wife of Renaud de Courtenay, it is suggested that "Helvis de Donjon" should be viewed with caution.] m secondly HAWISE d´Avranches, daughter of ROBERT d´Avranches & his wife Mathilde Avenill (-1 Aug 1209). The Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Ford Abbey records that "domina Alicia uxor domini Randolphi Avenell filia sua…unicam filiam…Matildam" had "filiam unam…Hawisiam, necnon duas alias, postea factas moniales" by her husband "Roberto de Abrincis" and that she married "Reginaldo de Courtenay" as his second wife[1728]. According to Burke´s Peerage, the second wife of Renaud de Courtenay was "Maud Dame du Sap, daughter of Robert FitzRoy by his w Maud d´Avranches"[1729]. However, this appears to confuse her with the wife of Guillaume de Courtenay, eldest son of Renaud by his first marriage, assuming that the primary sources correctly record the relationships which are shown here. Renaud & his first wife had three children