Countess Yolande FLANDERS
- Born: 1175, , Flanders, Belgium
- Died: 26 Aug 1219, Constantinople, Byzantium, Turkey
 Another name for Yolande was FLANDERS Countess.
Ancestral File Number: FHL3-6R.
General Notes:
Countess of FLANDERS.
BOOK
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..."
ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.13 FHL3-6R.
Marquesse of NEVERS, sister of 1st & 2nd Latin Emperors of CONSTANTIOPLE.
Marriage Information:
Yolande married Emperor Peter Courtenay CONSTANTINOPLE, II, son of Prince Peter Courtenay FRANCE and Dame Elizabeth De COURTENAY. (Emperor Peter Courtenay CONSTANTINOPLE, II was born about 1155 in Courtenay, Loiret, Galinois, France and died before Jan 1218-1219.)
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