Kammala wannan jumla: Iyalin Courtenay sun yi mulkin gundumar Edessa, mafi nisa arewacin jihohin Crusader. Joscelin I na Courtenay, abokin haɗin Baldwin II na Urushalima, an ba shi gundumar a cikin 1118. Joscelin II ya gaji Edessa da Turbessel a 1131 a kan mutuwar mahaifinsa, kuma ya yi ƙoƙari ya kare iyakokinsa masu yawa daga maƙwabtan musulmai maƙiya. Agnes ta girma a Edessa, har sai da
Zengi ya kama birnin a shekara ta 1144. Mahaifinta ya gudu zuwa sansanin Turbessel don samun tsaro.