 Aft 1158 - Abt 1219 (< 59 years)
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| Name |
Courtenay Pierre |
| Birth |
Aft 1158 |
Courtenay, Galinois, France  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt Jun 1219 |
Epirus, Turkey [1] |
| Notes |
- [[Category:Third Crusade]]
{{Medieval Project}}
{{Succession
|image=Hainaut-46.png
|position1=Latin Emporer
at Constantinopel
|before1=[[Hainaut-47|Henry I of Constantinople]]
1206-1216
|after1=[[Flandre-6|Yolande de Flandre]]
1217-1219
|years1=1217
}}
==Biography==The "Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire. It was established after the capture of Constantinople in 1204 and lasted until 1261"[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire "Latin Empire" Wikipedia article]]
PIERRE de Courtenay, was the son of PIERRE de France Seigneur de Courtenay & his wife Elisabeth de Courtenay. He was still a child in 1170. He succeeded his father as the Seigneur de Courtenay in 1183[[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LATIN%20EMPERORS.htm LATIN EMPERORS of CONSTANTINOPLE 1216-1261 (SEIGNEURS de COURTENAY)]].
He married [[Nevers-65|Agnes de Nevers]] in 1184, thereby adding Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre to his domain and becoming Comte de Nevers et d'Auxerre. They had a daughter Mathilde, who succeeded her mother as Countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre
Pierre went on the Third Crusade in 1190 with Philippe II, King of France, and returned to France in 1193. On his return he and Hervé de Donzy had a dispute over Château de Gien. Pierre was defeated and ceded the county of Nevers, and his daughter, in marriage, to Hervé
In 1193, after the death of Agnes, Petrus married [[Flandre-6|Yolande de Flandre]], daughter of Baudouin VIII Count of Flanders & his wife Marguerite Countess of Flanders. They had 14 children
Comte Pierre fought in the 1210 crusade against the Albigeois and was present at the siege of [http://www.catharcastles.info/toulouse.php?key=toulouse Toulouse]. He fought at the [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/76000/Battle-of-Bouvines Battle of Bouvines] in 1214. He became the Marquis de Namur in 1213, by right of his second wife, Yolande
In 1216, Peter was elected to succeed his brother-in-law Henri de Flandres as the next Emperor of Constantinople, Pierre I, but alas he never actually got to rule the empire. He was crowned by Pope Honorius III on 9 April 1217 in Rome. Sending his wife and daughters directly to Constantinople, he detoured in order to help the Venetians recapture Durazzo. The company recaptured Durazzo, but afterwards Emperor Pierre was captured in the Albanian mountains by Theodoros Angelos Lord of Epirus, and disappeared. For years, until 1221, his fate remained unknown, but it was finally confirmed that he had died in 1219
== Sources ==
* Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von. page 14. http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00004821&tree=LEO
* '''Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. IV p. 223 and 225'''
* http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/chamsensjoi.htm#PierreIIdied1219A
See also:* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_of_Courtenay Peter II de Courtenay]
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| Person ID |
I62659 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Father |
of FRANCE Pierre CAPET Prince, b. Abt 1126, Reims, Champange, France d. 1183, Palestine (Age 57 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
De COURTENAY Isabelle "Elizabeth", b. Abt 1148, Courtenay, Galinois, France d. Sep 1205, France (Age 57 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F14352 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Nevers Agnes, b. 1170 d. Abt 1193 (Age 23 years) |
| Marriage |
1191 |
Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-De-France, France [1] |
| Family ID |
F27910 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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| Sources |
- [S1873] Merged from EttieneSully on 13-Jan-2026 at 19:08.
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