Miles (Milo) de Courtenay, seigneur de Courtenay

Milon (Miles / Milo) de Courtenay

Born: Unknown Died: After 1133

Father: Joscelin [I] Seigneur de Courtenay Mother: Isabelle de Montlhéry

Spouses: (1) Unknown (2) Elizabeth de Nevers

Issue: 1. Guillaume, 2. Joscelin, 3. Renaud

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MILON de Courtenay, son of JOSCELIN [I] Seigneur de Courtenay & his second wife Isabelle de Montlhéry (-after 1133).

The Historia of Monk Aimon names "Milonem de Cortiniaco, Joscelinum Comitem Edesse, Gaufridum Chapalii" as the children of "Joscelinum de Cortiaco" and his wife "Elisabeth filiam Milonis de Monte-Letherico". Sire de Courtenay.

"Milo de Curtiniaco" confirmed the donation by "Robertus Bonet" to the priory of Néronville of a grange "apud Lanci", with the consent of "Elisabeth uxor Milonis", by charter dated to [1110/16]. 

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".
A charter dated 1133 records a donation to the abbey of Saint-Jean de Sens by "Milo de Curteno", adding that his widowed mother had become a nun there and that “frater eius Rainaudus” was buried there.

m firstly ---. This first marriage is shown in Europäische Stammtafeln, but the primary source on which it is based has not yet been identified.

m secondly ELISABETH de Nevers, daughter of RENAUD [II] Comte de Nevers et d'Auxerre & his first wife [Ita Raymonde] de Lyon et de Forez. The Origine et Historia Brevi Nivernensium Comitum records that the daughter of "Guillelmus…[filios]…Renaldum" and his first wife married "Miloni de Curteniaco".

"Milo de Curtiniaco" confirmed the donation by "Robertus Bonet" to the priory of Néronville of a grange "apud Lanci", with the consent of "Elisabeth uxor Milonis", by charter dated to [1110/16].

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".

Milon & his second wife had three children.

Milo was founder of the Cistercian Abbey of Fontaine- Jean [Peter Townend, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, One Hundred and Third Edition (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, MCMLXII (1963)), pg. 722].