Philip II, Marquis of Namur

Philip II of Courtenay, called " the lip " (à la levre ) (* 1195, † 1226 in Saint -Flour ), was from 1216 to 1226, a Margrave of Namur. He was the eldest son of the Latin Emperor Peter of Courtenay and Yolanda of Hainaut. He was a paternal Capetians, his great-grandfather was King Louis VI. of France.

After the death of his maternal uncle, Margrave Philip I of Namur, Philip was considered his heir. Since Namur was a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, this resulted in 1214 in the Battle of Bouvines to the situation that Philip there in the army of the Emperor Otto IV against his own father, the army of King Philip II of France was a member, was struggling.

After his parents moved in 1216 to Constantinople, Opel, there to take over the throne, Philip took over the government in Namur and also the ancestral home of his family Courtenay in France. When his father died, he resigned in favor of his younger brother Robert to the Latin Empire. Philip fought the descendants of Henry IV of Luxembourg, who had not given up their claim to the Margraviate. The Treaty of Dinant on March 13, 1223 renounced Walram IV of Limburg final on Namur.

Philip took the Albigensian Crusade in 1226 King Louis VIII part. At the siege of Avignon, he contracted a disease to which he succumbed on the way back near Saint -Flour. He was buried in the Abbey of Vaucelles. As he was unmarried, Namur went over to his younger brother Henry.