They held the County of la Marcha from 1090 till 1314.
By the end of the 11th century, they had risen to become the most prominent petty lords in the region from their castle at Lusignan. The Lusignan family originated in Poitou near Lusignan in western France in the early 10th century. Region: Poitiers, carrier (Fulk Count of Angoulême b.1048) Region: north-central France carrier (Miles de Courtenay)Ĭounts of Angoulême from 839 until 1246 when the house was absorbed by the Lusignans. The title was subsequently recreated for Hugh de Courtenay, nephew of Hugh the elder Despenser. In the mid-12th century a branch of the pre-Capetian family settled in England, obtained the barony of Okehampton and inherited the title of Earls of Devon (in 1293) from the de Redvers family. The cadet branch of the Courtenay participated in the crusades and came to rule the County of Edessa, a Crusader state it became extinct around 1200. Peter and Elizabeth's descendants hence connected the House of Courtenay with a cadet branch of the House of Capet, and acquired through marriage the County of Namur and the Latin Empire of Constantinople. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Peter, a younger son of the Capetian King Louis VI of France. The elder branch continued to rule Courtenay, but became extinct around 1150 with the death of Renaud de Courtenay, who had no male descendants. The Courtenay family was divided into two branches in the 12th century. Athon took advantage of the succession crisis in the Duchy of Burgundy between Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy and Robert II of France to capture a piece of land for himself, where he established his own seigneury, taking his surname from the town he founded and fortified. The dynasty descended from Athon, the first lord of Courtenay, apparently himself a descendant of the Counts of Sens and from Pharamond, reputed founder of the French monarchy in 420. The House of Courtenay was an important dynasty in medieval France originating from the castle of Courtenay in the Gâtinais (Loiret), going back to the 10th century.
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