See also
| Husband: | Peter II + (1155- ) | |
| Wife: | Yolanda + (1175-1219) | |
| Children: | Margaret (1194-1270) | |
| Philip (1195-1226) | ||
| Yolanda + of COURTENAY (1198-1232) | ||
| Elizabeth of COURTENAY (1199-1269) | ||
| Henry (c. 1201-1229) | ||
| Agnes (c. 1203- ) | ||
| Marie of COURTENAY (1204- ) | ||
| Eleanor + of COURTENAY (1208-1230) | ||
| Robert of COURTENAY (c. 1210-1228) | ||
| Baldwin II of CONSTANTINOPLE (1217- ) | ||
| Marriage | 1 Jul 1193 | Soissons, Picardie, France |
| Name: | Peter II + | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Peter I + of COURTENAY ( -1183) | |
| Mother: | Isabelle + of COURTENAY (1127-1205) | |
| Birth | 1155 | Courtenay, Loiret, France |
| Occupation | Emperor of the Latin Empire | |
| Title | Emperor of the Latin Empire | |
| Death | "6/1219" | Epirus, Turkey |
Yolanda +
| Name: | Yolanda + | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Baldwin V + (1150-1195) | |
| Mother: | Marguerite + (1144-1194) | |
| Birth | 1175 | Flanders, Belgium |
| Occupation | Countess of Flanders | |
| Title | Countess of Flanders | |
| Death | 26 Aug 1219 (age 43-44) | Constantinople, Turkey |
| Name: | Margaret | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | Raoul (c. 1189- ) | |
| Spouse 2: | Henry I (c. 1189- ) | |
| Birth | 1194 | |
| Occupation | Marchioness of Namur | |
| Death | 17 Jul 1270 (age 75-76) | Marienthal |
| Burial | Convent of Marienthal | |
| Name: | Philip | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1195 | |
| Occupation | Margrave of Namur | |
| Title | frm 1212 to 1226 (age 16-31) | Margrave of Namur |
| Death | 1226 (age 30-31) | |
| Cause: killed near Saint-Flour in the Aubergne | ||
Spouse: Andrew II +
| Name: | Yolanda + of COURTENAY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Andrew II + (1176-1235) | |
| Birth | 1198 | Courtenay, Loiret, France |
| Occupation | Queen Consort of Hungary | |
| Title | frm 1215 to 1233 (age 16-35) | Queen Consort of Hungary |
| Death | 1232 (age 33-34) | |
| Name: | Elizabeth of COURTENAY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | Walter ( -1219) | |
| Spouse 2: | Eudes I (c. 1195- ) | |
| Birth | 1199 | |
| Death | 1269 (age 69-70) | |
| Name: | Henry | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1201 (est) | |
| Occupation | Marquis of Namur | |
| Death | 1229 (age 27-28) | |
| Name: | Agnes | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1203 (est) | |
| Name: | Marie of COURTENAY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Theodore I LASCARIS (1174-1222) | |
| Birth | 1204 | |
| Occupation | Empress of Nicaea | |
| Title | frm 1219 to Nov 1221 (age 14-17) | Empress of Nicaea |
| Death | "9/1228" | |
| Name: | Eleanor + of COURTENAY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Philip + of MONTFORT (1204-1240) | |
| Birth | 1208 | Courtenay, Isle-de-France, France |
| Death | 1230 (age 21-22) | l'Abbaye de St. Antoine des Champs, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, France |
| Name: | Robert of COURTENAY | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1210 (est) | |
| Death | 1228 (age 17-18) | |
| Name: | Baldwin II of CONSTANTINOPLE | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1217 | |
| Death | "10/1273" | |
Peter of Courtenay (French: Pierre de Courtenay) (died 1219) was emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople from 1216 to 1217.
He was a son of Peter of Courtenay (d. 1183), the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second Queen consort Adélaide de Maurienne. His mother was Elizabeth of Courtenay.
Peter first married Agnes of Nevers, via whom he obtained the three counties of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre. He took for his second wife, Yolanda of Flanders (d. 1219), a sister of Baldwin and Henry of Flanders, who were afterwards the first and second emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Peter accompanied his cousin, King Philip Augustus, on the crusade of 1190 and fought (alongside his brother Robert) in the Albigensian Crusade in 1209 and 1211, when he took part in the siege of Lavaur. He was present at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.
When his brother-in-law, the emperor Henry, died without sons in 1216, Peter was chosen as his successor, and with a small army set out from France to take possession of his throne. Consecrated emperor at Rome, in a church outside the walls, by Pope Honorius III on 9 April 1217, he borrowed some ships from the Venetians, promising in return to conquer Durazzo for them; but he failed in this enterprise, and sought to make his way to Constantinople by land. On the journey he was seized by the despot of Epirus, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, and, after an imprisonment of two years, died, probably by foul means. Peter thus never governed his empire, which, however, was ruled for a time by his wife, Yolanda, who had succeeded in reaching Constantinople. Two of his sons, Robert and Baldwin, in turn held the throne of the Latin Empire.
[edit] ChildrenBy his first wife Agnes I, Countess of Nevers he had one child, Matilda I, Countess of Nevers.
By his second wife Yolanda of Flanders, he had 10 children:
Philip (d. 1226), Marquis of Namur, who declined the offer of the crown of the Latin Empire
Robert of Courtenay (d. 1228), Latin Emperor
Henry (d. 1229), Marquis of Namur
Baldwin II of Constantinople (d. 1273)
Margaret, Marchioness of Namur, who married first Raoul d'Issoudun and then Henry count of Vianden
Elizabeth of Courtenay who married Walter count of Bar and then Eudes sire of Montagu
An unnamed daughter who married Tsar Boril of Bulgaria
Yolanda de Courtenay, who married Andrew II of Hungary
Eleanor, who married Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre
Marie de Courtenay, who married Theodore I Lascaris of the Empire of Nicaea
Agnes, who married Geoffrey II Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea
Yolanda of Flanders (1175–1219) ruled the Latin Empire in Constantinople for her husband Peter II of Courtenay from 1217 to 1219.
She was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainault, and Countess Margaret I of Flanders. Two of her brothers, Baldwin I and then Henry, were emperors in Constantinople. After the death of the latter in 1216 there was a brief period without an emperor, before Peter was elected. Peter sent Yolanda to Constantinople while he fought the Despotate of Epirus, during which he was captured. Because his fate was unknown (although he was probably killed), Yolanda ruled as regent. She allied with the Bulgarians against the various Byzantine successor states, and was able to make peace with Theodore I Lascaris of the Empire of Nicaea, who married her daughter. However, she soon died, in 1219.
Her second son, Robert of Courtenay, became emperor because her first son did not want the throne. As Robert was still in France at the time, there was technically no emperor until he arrived in 1221.
Yolanda was, in her own right, Marchioness of Namur, which she inherited from her uncle, Marquis Philip I, in 1212 and left to her eldest son, Marquis Philip II, when she went to Constantinople in 1216.
By Peter of Courtenay she had 10 children:
Philip (d. 1226), Marquis of Namur, who declined the offer of the crown of the Latin Empire
Robert of Courtenay (d. 1228), Latin Emperor
Henry (d. 1229), Marquis of Namur
Baldwin II of Constantinople (d. 1273)
Margaret, Marchioness of Namur, who married first Raoul d'Issoudun and then Henry count of Vianden
Elizabeth, who married Walter count of Bar and then Eudes sire of Montagu
Yolanda de Courtenay, who married Andrew II of Hungary
Eleanor, who married Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre
Marie de Courtenay, who married Theodore I Lascaris of the Empire of Nicaea
Agnes, who married Geoffrey II Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea