Emperor of Constantinople Pierre de Courtenay II 
Pierre was born in 1155 in Courtenay, Galinois, France.1 Pierre's father was Pierre Capet France and his mother was Isabelle de Courtenay. His paternal grandparents were King Louis (The Fat) France IV and Alix of Savoy; his maternal grandparents were Lord Renaud de Courtenay and Hawise de Donjon. He had a brother and a sister, named Robert and Alice. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 64 in 1219 in Epirus, Turkey.2 General Notes
Peter of Courtenay (d. 1219) was emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople) from 1216-1217.
He was a son of Peter of Courtenay (d. 1183), a younger son of Louis VI of France. His mother was Elizabeth of Courtenay.
Peter first married Agnes of Nevers, via whom he obtained the 3 counties of
Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonerre. He took for his second wife, Yolanda (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, fought against the Albigenses, and 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 April 9, 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 Angelus, 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.
By his first wife Agnes of Nevers he had one child, Maud (d. 1254), countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonerre. For his children by his second wife Yolanda, see her article.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in France
- b.Apr 1008 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry, Brie, France
- b.0974 d.1032
- b.23 May 1052 in Reims, Champagen, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Melun, Isle De France
- b.0979 in Kiev, Ukraine d.20 Feb 1053 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.1036 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1076 in France
- b.1001 in Uppsala, Sweden d.10 Feb 1049 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.1081 in France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau De Baethizy, Paris, Isle De France
- b.0978
- b.1017 in Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands d.28 Jun 1061 in Nederhemert, Gelderland, Netherlands
- b.0985
- b.1054 in Vlaaringen, Netherlands d.1093 in Montreuil-sur-Loire, France
- b.0995 d.29 Jun 1059
- b.1028 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.04 Aug 1113
- b.1005 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria
- b.1126 in Reims, Champagen, France d.1183 in Palestine, Israel
- b.1020 d.1060
- b.1047 d.09 Dec 1080
- b.1020 in Susa, Torino, Italy d.19 Dec 1091 in Camischio, Ivrea, Savoy
- b.1062 in Savoy, France d.23 Sep 1104
- b.0995 d.1060
- b.1040 d.1070
- b.1070 in Savoy, France d.1153
- b.1092 in Savoy, France d.18 Nov 1154
- b.0986 d.03 Sep 1057
- b.1020 in Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087 in Besancon, Doubs, Franche-Comte, France
- b.0990 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.16 Oct 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.1070 in Savoy, France d.1153
- b.1000 d.1048
- b.1031 in Longwy, Meuthe-et-Mosel, France d.30 Jun 1109
- b.1002
- b.1155 in Courtenay, Galinois, France d.1219 in Epirus, Turkey
- b.0985 in Courtenay, France d.1000 in France
- b.1034 in Courtenay, France d.1079 in Montlhery, Seine-Et-Oise, France
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- b.1069 in Courtenay, France d.1127 in France
- b.1008 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1071
- b.1040 in Montlhery, Soise, France
- b.1014 d.07 Dec 1074
- b.1100 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1161 in France
- b.1030 in Nevers, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d.20 Jun 1100 in Nevers, France
- b.1047 in Nevers, France d.05 Aug 1089 in Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
- b.1030 in Tonnere, Yonne, Bourgogne, France
- b.1078 in Nevers, France d.1100 in France
- b.1040
- b.1060 in Le Forez, France
- b.1045
- b.1127 in Courtenay, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.1050 in France
- b.1085 in Yerre, France d.1138 in Corbeil, Seine-et-Oise, France
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- b.1100 in Donjon, France
- b.1090 in Seine-et-Oise, France
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Details of Pierre's family with Countess Yolanda of Flanders
Details of Pierre's family with Agnes of Nevers
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