Peter II Count de Courtenay , Byzantine Emperor 
Peter II Count de was born about 1155 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France. Peter II Count de's father was Peter I Count de Courtenay , Prince of France and his mother was Elizabeth de Courtenay. His paternal grandparents were Louis VI "The Fat" King of France and Adelaide of Savoy; his maternal grandparents were Renaud I Sire de Courtenay and Hedwige du Donjon. He had a sister named Alice de. He was the older of the two children. He died in Epirus, Byzantine Empire, Greece.General Notes
Peter (Pierre) de Courtenay, Emperor-elect of Byzantium, Lord of Courtenay, Maruis de Namur and Count of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre; took part in the Third Crusade 1190, present at Battle of Bouvines 1214 when Philip Augustus of France defeated an army sent by King John of England to reconquer the lands previously held by the Angevins, elected Latin Emperor of Byzantium by the Frankish nobles of that city 1216 and crowned by the Pope in Rome, but captured on his way to the East 1217 by order of Theodore Angelus, Despot of Epirus, and put to death 1219, having never set foot in the city (of Constantinople), let alone reigned there. [Burke's Peerage]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1006 in Rheims, Marne, France d.02 Aug 1060 in Vitry-aux-Loges, Brie, France
- b.<23 May 1052 in Rheims, Marne, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.1081 in Herbst, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Bethizy Castle, Paris, France
- b.~ 1023 in Vlaardinngen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands d.26 Jun 1061 in Hannert, France
- b.~ 1055 in Vlaardingen, Holland d.1094 in Montreul-Sur-Mer, France
- b.~ 1030 in Saxony, Germany d.04 Aug 1113
- b.~ 1125 in Paris, Seine, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1040 in Maurienne, Savoy, France d.26 JAN 1079/80
- b.~ 1062 in Savoy, France d.17 Oct 1133
- b.~ 1040 in Genf, Geneva, Helvetiz, Switzerland d.~ 1095
- b.~ 1092 in Savoy, France d.18 Nov 1154
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.1133
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.~ 1155 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.BEF JAN 1217/18 in Epirus, Byzantine Empire, Greece
- b.1034 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1079
- b.~ 1075 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.> 1127 in France
- b.1040 in Montlhery, Seine-et-Oise, France
- b.~ 1100 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1161 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England
- b.1047 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.05 Aug 1089 in Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 1078 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.1100 in France
- b.~ 1062 in Le Forez, Provence, France d.> 1092
- b.~ 1130 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.1050 in Donjon Castle, Corbeil, Yerre-sur-Oise, France d.1083
- b.~ 1083 in Corbeil, Yerre-sur-Oise, France d.1138 in Donjon Castle, Corbeil, Yerre-sur-Oise, France
- b.~ 1110 in Donjon Castle, Corbeil, Yerre-sur-Oise, France d.> 1158
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