Pierre II of Courtenay

Pierre II of Courtenay , born towards 1165, died in 1219, lord of Courtenay (1180-1219), count de Nevers, (1185-1199), of Auxerre and Thunder (1185-1219), Latin emperor of Constantinople (1216-1219), wire of Pierre de France, lord of Courtenay, and Elisabeth de Courtenay.

It succeeded his father in the seigniory of Courtenay and his/her cousin the king Philippe II Auguste made it marry in 1184 Agnès, heiress of the county of Nevers. The following year, with died of his brother-in-law Guillaume V of Nevers, he became count de Nevers, of Auxerre and Thunder. Whereas it took part in the Third crusade, his first wife died in 1192, leaving a girl, Mathilde. It remaria in 1193 with Yolande de Hainaut, girl of Baudouin VIII, count de Flandre and of of Hainaut, and Marguerite Anger of Flanders.

In 1199, a war opposed it to the one its vassal ones, Herve IV of Donzy. Beaten with the Cosne-on-Loire Pierre was made prisoner and was released in exchange of the marriage of Herve with Mahaut, the girl of Pierre and the transfer of the county of Nevers. Pierre kept on a purely basis for life the counties of Auxerre and Thunder.

The June 16th 1216 died without posterity Henri de Hainaut, second Latin emperor of Constantinople. The barons of the empire then proposed the throne with its nephew André II of Hungary, which refused, then in Pierre de Courtenay, brother-in-law of the late emperor, who accepted it. It went to Brindisi to embark towards its empire and besieged Duras, while his wife went directly to Constantinople. Having failed to take the city, it went by the terrestrial way to Salonique. It was attacked by Theodore Ange Comnène Doukas, despotic of Épire, which did it captive. There remained imprisoned until its death, which was announced in 1219.

Qualified by the chroniclers of carried, hot and violent one and who could not be prevented from acting with impetuosity active until annoying ends towards the bishops and the churches , it was regularly excommunicated.

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Of his first wife Agnes Ire, countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Thunder, it had had:

* Mathilde (1188 † 1257), countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Thunder, married in 1199 with Herve IV of Donzy, then in 1226 with Guigues IV of Drill († 1241)

Of his second wife Yolande de Hainaut, empress of Constantinople, it had had:

* Marguerite (1194 † 1270), married to Raoul de Lusignan, count d' Issoudun then of Have († 1219), then Henri Ier, count de Vianden

* Philippe II (1195 † 1266), margrave de Namur

*Sibylle (1197 † 1210), nun

*Elisabeth (1199 † ap.1269), married to Gaucher, count de Bar on the Seine, then in 1220 in Eudes of Burgundy, lord of Montagu

*Yolande (1200 † 1233), married in 1215 with Andre II of Hungary (1176 † 1235), king de Hongrie

* Robert Ier (1201 † 1228), Latin emperor of Constantinople

*Agnès (1202 † ap.1247), married in 1217 with Geoffroy II of Villehardouin († 1246), prince de Morée

*Marie (1204 † 1222), married in 1219 with Theodore Ier Lascaris († 1222), emperor of Nicée

* Henri (1206 † 1229), margrave de Namur

*Eléonore (1208 † 1230), married to Philippe Ier de Montfort († 1270), lord of Castrate

*Constance (1210 †), nun with Fontrevault

* Baudouin II (1218 † 1273), Latin emperor of Constantinople

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