94555182. Emperor Peter II de Courtenay & 94555183. Empress Yolanda of Flanders
~1155, Peter born in France, s/o 94555142. Peter of
Courtenay & 94555143. Elizabeth de Courtenay.
~1175, Yolanda born in Flanders, d/o 94555204. Baldwin V
of Hainaut & 94555205. Margaret I, Countess of Flanders.
9/18/1180, Philip Augustus succeeded as King of France.
1181-85, Peter de Courtenay conveyed Montargis to King
Philip. (S) The Capetians, Bradbury, 2007, P171.
4/10/1183, Peter’s father died.
[––Peter––]
1184, King Philip granted Peter, his cousin, the marriage of
Agnes, d/o count Guy of Nevers [died 1181], and the county of Nevers.
By 1189, Hugh Noyers, bishop of Auxerre, imposed and
interdict on the city when Peter was present, which would re-occur frequently
over the next 15 years.
6/24/1190, King Philip received the scrip, staff and
oriflame at St-Denis before departing on crusade. Peter attended the crusade
with King Philip.
7/2/1190, The English and French armies met at Lyons; where
they learned that the German Emperor, leading his forces to the crusade, had
died in an accident. King Philip departed with his forces two days later.
12/1190, Peter’s ships were wrecked in storms. King Philip
granted Peter 600 marks for necessities.
9/16/1190, The French forces, traveling by ship from Genoa,
stopped in Sicily.
2/2/1191 at Messina, Sicily, King Richard of England got
into a tilting match with William des Barres, a knight of King Philip. When
King Richard could not defeat William, he declared William an enemy. Peter,
count of Nevers, and other French nobles pleaded William’s case before King
Richard.
3/30/1191, King Philip arrived at Tyre.
4/20/1191, King Philip arrived at Acre and took command of
the siege [multiple smaller and unorganized forces had arrived over the
previous two years]. (S) Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare, V1, 2010,
P475.
7/12/1191, Acre fell to the combined forces of the English,
French, and Germans.
7/31/1191, Due to the death of Count of Flanders, Philip of
Alsace and Philip’s own illness, Philip left his 10,000 men under the control
of Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, and left for France. [Peter likely returned in
the retinue of King Philip.]
1191, in Rome, Pope Celestine freed King Philip from his
crusader vow because of his obvious illness.
12/27/1191, King Philip arrived back in Paris.
1193, Agnes died.
5/1193, Peter, count of Nevers, arranged for his daughter
Mathilda to marry Philip of Namur. [Their daughter Matilda eventually married
Herve de Donzy.] (S) The Vezelay Chronicle, 1992, P365.
1193-4, King Philip aided Peter of Nevers in obtaining aid
from clergy of Auxerre to wall the town along the river. (S) Anglo-Norman
Studies, 1983, P30.
[––Peter & Yolanda––]
Aft. 1193, Peter married 2nd Yolanda.
1199, King Philip awarded Nevers to Hervey of Donzai,
leaving Peter with Auxerre. (S) Increase of Royal Poser in France, Wilker,
1888, P30.
9/1203, Count Peter was in Auxerre, and consequentially the
interdict was imposed on the city. Peter order the body of a deceased child to
be buried in the Bishop’s chamber. Philip then began a persecution of the
clergy, and the Bishop had to flee the city.
10/1203, The Pope Innocent wrote a letter to Peter
commanding Peter to recall the Bishop and make good for the injuries done.
4/18/1204 at Auxerre, Peter performed penance by
disinterring the child’s body himself and burying the body in the cemetery.
1205, Blanche, countess of Champagne, signed an agreement
with Peter of Courtenay, count of Nevers, that they would not keep each other’s
serfs, but would mutually surrender them. (S) Social France at the Time of
Philip Augustus, Luchaire, 1912, P406.
1212, Peter de Courtenay, marquis
of Namur. (S) Index of Dates, Rosse, 1859, P611.
6/11/1216, Yolanda’s brother Henry, Latin Emperor of
Constantinople, died. [Yolanda’s brother Baldwin, died 1205, was the emperor
before Henry.]
4/9/1217 in Rome in the Church of St. Lawrence, Peter
crowned Latin Emperor of Constantinople by Pope Honorius III. Yolanda and their
daughter were present. (S) Memorials of Old Devonshire, Frederick, 1904, P42.
1217, Peter attacked Epirus [Greece], ruled by Theodorus
Comnenus (94555258), and was taken prisoner. (S) Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, Gibbon, V6, 2004, P449.
By 1/1218, Peter died; Yolanda in Constantinople was
pregnant with their son Baldwin.
9/1219, Yolanda died. (S) The Asanids, Madrearu, 2016, P195.
(S) Crusade of Richard I, Archer, 1888, P45. (S) The
Interdict, Krehbiel, 1909.
Family notes:
·
Philip, the eldest son, refused the imperial
crown. Robert, the next son, accepted the crown in 1220. Baldwin, at age 11 in
1228, succeeded his brother Robert.
Child of Peter and Yolanda:
i. Robert de Courtenay, born ? in France.
3/25/1221, Robert crowned Emperor.
ii. Yolande de Courtenay (47277591), born ~1198 in
France.
iii. Marie de Courtenay (94555259), born 1204 in France.
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