Emperor Peter Courtenay CONSTANTINOPLE, II

   Other names for Peter were Emperor Pierre De Courtenay CONSTANTINOPLE II and CONSTANTINOPLE Emperor.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJC-3V.

   General Notes:

Emperor of CONSTANTINOPLE.

BOOKS
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol VII, p908, Peter of Courtenay: "Died Abt 1219, briefly Latin emperor of Constantinople, the son of Peter of Courtenay (died 1183) and a grandson of the French King Louis VI, obtained the counties of Auxerre and Tonnerre by his first marriage. He later took Yolande (died 1219),sister of Baldwin I and Henry of Flanders, first and second Latin emperors of Constantinople, as his second wife; she brought him the Marquessate of Nevers. Chosen successor to Henry of Flanders when Henry died without sons in 1216, Peter was consecrated emperor in S Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, Rome, by Pope Honorious III on 9 Apr 1217. Accompanied by an army and a papal legate, he subsequently embarked at Brindisi on ships funished by the Venetians, for whom hi tried to conquer Durazzo (now Durres, Albania) from Theodore Ducas, Greek despot of Epirus. Failing in that enterprise, Peter set out overland toward Thessalonica (Thessaloniki). In the mountains near Elbasan he was taken by Theodore and died, probably by assassination,after an imprisonment of at least two years."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJC-3V, 8XJC-42 Pierre CONSTANTINOPLE Emperor Born Abt 1134 Died 1219 Father >Brother of Alix De COURTENAY, Ver 4.11 8XJ1-D2 Peter II De COURTENAY Born Abt 1155 Courtenay Galinois France Died Bef Jan 1218.

Ancestral File Ver 4.13 8XJ1-D2 Pierre De Courtenay II Emperor of CONTANTINOPLE.

   Marriage Information:

Peter married Countess AUXERRE.

   Marriage Information:

Peter also married Countess Yolande FLANDERS, daughter of Count Baldwin HAINAULT, V and Countess Marguerite De Alsace Lorraine FLANDERS. (Countess Yolande FLANDERS was born in 1175 in , Flanders, Belgium and died on 26 Aug 1219 in Constantinople, Byzantium, Turkey.)