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PETER OF COURTENAY (d. 1219)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER OF See also:COURTENAY (d. 1219)  , See also:emperor of Romania (or See also:Constantinople), was a son of See also:Peter of See also:Courtenay (d . 1183), and a See also:grandson of the See also:French See also:king, See also:Louis VI . Having, by a first See also:marriage, obtained the counties of See also:Nevers and See also:Auxerre, he took for his second wife, See also:Yolande (d . 1219), a See also:sister of See also:Baldwin and See also:Henry of See also:Flanders, who were afterwards the first and second emperors of the Latin See also:Empire of Constantinople . Peter accompanied his See also:cousin, King See also:Philip See also:Augustus, on the crusade of 1190, fought against the Albigenses, and was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Bouvines in 1214 . When his See also:brother-in-See also:law, the emperor Henry, died without sons in 1216, Peter was chosen as his successor, and with a small See also:army set out from See also:France to take See also:possession of his See also:throne . Consecrated emperor at See also:Rome, in a See also:church outside the walls, by See also:Pope See also:Honorius III. on the 9th of See also:April 1217, he borrowed some See also:ships from the Venetians, promising in return to conquer Durazzo for them; but he failed in this enterprise, and sought to make his way to Constantinople by See also:land . On the See also:journey he was seized by the See also:despot of See also:Epirus, See also:Theodore See also:Angelus, and, after an imprisonment of two years, died, probably by foul means . Peter thus never governed his empire, which, however, was ruled for a See also:time by his wife, Yolande, who had succeeded in reaching Constantinople . Two of his sons, See also:Robert and Baldwin, became in turn emperors of Constantinople .

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