Peter I of Courtenay

Peter of France (French: Pierre Ier de France, seigneur de Courtenay; * to 1126, † 1180-1183 in Palestine) was a prince of the dynasty of the Capetians and as Mr. Peter I of Courtenay, Champignelles, Montargis, Château -Renard, Tanlay, Charny and Chantecocq. He is the father of the younger house Courtenay.

Peter was a younger son of King Louis VI. the thicknesses of France and his second wife Adelaide of Maurienne.

Marriage and Lord of Courtenay

Between 1150 and 1153 he married Elizabeth of Courtenay, a daughter of the Lord Reynald of Courtenay († 1194) and his wife Helvis Donjon. His wife's family belonged to those lords, who at the beginning of the 12th century in a fierce opposition to King Louis VI. stood and were subjected to military of this. Around the time of the wedding drew his father Rainald with his sons to England, where he second wife Hawise of Avranches, Lady of Okehampton, married, and became the progenitor of Courtenay of Devon. What motivated him to do so is unclear but may Rainald was a supporter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, preferring after their divorce from King Louis VII of France ( in 1152 ) to join her and her second husband, King Henry II of England.

Anyway, Peter came into the possession and at the crest of the family into which he had married. His brother, King Louis VII, confirmed to him the fief and gave in addition, the gentlemen Tanlay, Charny and Chantecocq.

Little is known about Peter's term of office, except that the place in 1179 he Montargis granted city rights and built the castle of the same.

Crusade and death

1179 reached Peter as a crusader, together with Count Henry I of Champagne and the bishop Philip of Beauvais, the Holy Land. Their arrival prompted the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin, cancel his offensive against the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which he had planned earlier in the year after his victory at the Litani River. Instead, he attacked the castle at the Jacob Wade and conquered them.

Peter died in the Holy Land, between March 1180 and April 1183rd His bones were apparently transferred to England and buried in the Cathedral of Exeter. His French possessions he bequeathed to his two eldest sons, Peter ( II ) and Robert.

Progeny

By Elizabeth he had ten children:

  • Peter II (* 1155, † 1219 ), Lord of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople Opel
  • N.n. ( Daughter by 1,158 * ) ∞ Eudes de la Marche
  • ∞ I) to 1178 (separation 1186 ) with Count William I. of Joigny
  • ∞ II) 1186 with Count Aymar of Angoulême († 1202) (House of Taillefer )
  • ∞ I) William of Brienne ( † before 1200), a son of Count Erard II of Brienne
  • ∞ II) 1200 William of Champlitte († 1209), Viscount of Dijon and Prince of Achaia
  • ∞ III) 1211 William I († 1218 ), Count of Sancerre
  • ∞ before 1185 Guy V., Lord of Thiern (House Thiern )
  • ∞ Aimon III. ( † after 1221 ), Lord of Charost
  • ∞ I) Gasce de Poissy († 1189 ), Lord of Château Fort
  • ∞ II) William of Breteuil ( † before 1231 ), Lord of la Ferte- Arnaud and Villepreux
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