Countess Yolanda of Flanders (Yolande of Hainault) 
Yolanda was born in 1175 in Flanders, Belgium.1 Yolanda's father was Count Baldwin (The Brave) of Hainault V and her mother was Marguerite of Upper Lorraine. Her paternal grandparents were Count Baldwin (The Builder) of Hainault IV and Countess Adelaide de Namur; her maternal grandparents were Thierry of Upper Lorraine III and Sybille of Anjou. She had four brothers and two sisters, named Baldwin, Philip, Henry, Eustace, Isabella and Sybil. She died at the age of 44 on August 26th, 1219 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire.2 General Notes
Yolanda of Flanders ruled the Latin Empire in Constantinople for her husband Peter 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 Constaninople. 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.
She was succeeded by her second son Robert of Courtenay 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 also held Namur, which she inherited from her uncle Philip of Namur in 1212 and left to her eldest son Philip 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, Marquioness 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, who married Andrew II of Hungary
Eleanor, who married Philip of Montfort
Marie, who married Theodore I Lascaris of the Empire of Nicaea
Agnes, who married Geoffrey II de Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- d.1070
- b.1056 in Flanders, Belgium d.1098
- b.1040 d.15 Mar 1086
- b.1087 d.1120
- b.1021 in Brabant, France d.1078
- b.1065
- b.1054 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.1086
- b.1108 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.13 Nov 1172
- b.1023 in Germany d.10 Oct 1082 in Bouillon, Belgium
- b.1055 in Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia d.24 Oct 1129
- b.1039 in Montaigu, Maine, France d.1090
- b.1089 in Wassenburg, Rhineland, Prussia d.1127
- b.1026 in Acquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Chateau de Chize, France
- b.1048 d.1129
- b.1031 in Lorraine, France d.1058
- b.1150 in Hainault, Belgium d.22 Dec 1196
- b.0997 d.1064
- b.1030 d.22 Jun 1102
- b.1005 d.1067
- b.1067 in Namur, France d.19 Aug 1139 in Namur, France
- b.0995 d.29 Jun 1059
- b.1005 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria
- b.1110 in Namur, Wallonia, Belgium d.Jul 1169
- b.1007 d.1057
- b.1030
- b.1010 d.1070
- b.1075 in Trier, Rhineland, Germany d.24 Jun 1143
- b.1026 in Acquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Chateau de Chize, France
- b.1048 d.1129
- b.1031 in Lorraine, France d.1058
- b.1175 in Flanders, Belgium d.26 Aug 1219 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
- b.1024 d.18 Jan 1071
- b.1060 in Lorraine, France d.23 Jan 1115 in Chatenois
- b.0997 d.1064
- b.1030 d.1074
- b.1005 d.1067
- b.1101 in Alsace, France d.22 Jan 1169
- b.1012
- b.1035 d.17 Aug 1094
- b.1003 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monasteraere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.1070 d.1120
- b.0995 d.29 Jun 1059
- b.1028 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.04 Aug 1113
- b.1005 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria
- b.1135 in Alsace, France d.20 Nov 1195
- b.1006 d.1060
- b.1033 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.1008 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France
- b.1093 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem
- b.1025 in Hainaut, Montfort, France d.1087 in Eperon, France
- b.1060 in Montfort, France d.14 Feb 1116 in Fontrevault, France
- b.1030
- b.1115 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.1165 in Bethlehem, Palestine
- b.1002 in Beaugency, Loiret, France d.1060
- b.1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110 in LeMans, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1020 in Le Mans, Maine, France
- b.1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.1080 d.08 Feb 1100
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Details of Yolanda's family with Emperor of Constantinople Pierre de Courtenay II
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