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.1053 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1177 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau Bethizy, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1055 in Vlaardingen, Holland d.1093 in Montreuil-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.~ 1125 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1062 in Maurienne, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.17 Oct 1133 in Savoy/Rhone-Alpes, France
- b.~ 1092 in Maurienne, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, 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.~ 1075 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.> 1127 in France
- b.~ 1100 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1161 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1078 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.1100 in France
- b.~ 1130 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- 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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‌Peter II Count de and Yolande of were married in a religious ceremony before July 1st, 1193 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardy, France.
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