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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 COURTENAY (d. 1219)  , emperor of Romania (or Constantinople), was a son of Peter of Courtenay (d . 1183), and a grandson of the French king, Louis VI . Having, by a first
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marriage, obtained the counties of
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Nevers and
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Auxerre, he took for his second wife, Yolande (d . 1219), a
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sister of Baldwin and Henry of Flanders, who were afterwards the first and second emperors of the Latin
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Empire of Constantinople . Peter accompanied his cousin, King Philip Augustus, on the crusade of 1190, fought against the Albigenses, and was
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present at the
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battle of
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Bouvines in 1214 . When his
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brother-in-law, the emperor Henry, died without sons in 1216, Peter was chosen as his successor, and with a small army set out from France to take possession of his
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throne . Consecrated emperor at Rome, in a church outside the walls, by Pope Honorius III. on the 9th of
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April 1217, he borrowed some
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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
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land . On the journey he was seized by the despot of Epirus, Theodore
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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 time by his wife, Yolande, who had succeeded in reaching Constantinople . Two of his sons, Robert and Baldwin, became in turn emperors of Constantinople .

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