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.<23 May 1052 in Rheims, Marne, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Meulan, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1081 in Herbst, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Bethizy Castle, Paris, France
- b.~ 1055 in Vlaardingen, Holland d.1094 in Montreul-Sur-Mer, France
- b.0995 in Saxony, Germany d.29 Jun 1057
- b.~ 1030 in Saxony, Germany d.04 Aug 1113
- b.1005 in Schwaben, Germany d.1059
- b.~ 1125 in Paris, Seine, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1062 in Savoy, France d.17 Oct 1133
- b.~ 1092 in Savoy, France d.18 Nov 1154
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.1133
- b.~ 1155 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.BEF. JAN 1217/18 in Epirus, Byzantine Empire, Greece
- b.~ 1100 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1161 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.~ 1110 in Donjon Castle, Corbeil, Yerre-sur-Oise, France d.> 1158
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Peter II Count de and Yolande of were married in a religious ceremony before July 1st, 1193 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardy, France. They had two daughters named Yolande de and Eleanor de.
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Children
Yolande de Courtenay
Yolande de was born about 1194 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France. She died in 1233.
Eleanor de Courtenay
Eleanor de was born in 1208 in Courtenay, Rheims, France. She died at the age of 22 in 1230.
Peter II Count de and Agnes d' were married in a religious ceremony in 1st wife. They had a daughter named Maud de.
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Children
Maud de Courtenay , Countess of Nevers
Maud de was born about 1175 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France. She died in 1254.
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