Yolanda of Flanders

Yolanda of Flanders († 1219 ) ruled the Latin Empire of Constantinople Opel for her husband Peter of Courtenay 1217-1219.

Life

She was the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut and Countess Margaret I of Flanders. Two of her brothers, Baldwin I and Henry, were Emperor in Constantinople Opel. After Henry's death in 1216 there was a short time without rulers until her husband Peter was chosen. He sent to Constantinople Yolanda Opel, while he himself fought in the Despotate of Epirus and where he was also captured. Since his fate was not known Jolante reigned as regent for him. They allied with the Bulgarians against the various Byzantine successor states, but also included peace with Theodore Laskaris, who reigned at Nicaea and married her daughter. She died in 1219.

She was followed by her second son, Robert of Courtenay, had after the eldest, Philip, renounced the throne. Since Robert was at the time still in France, it was up to his arrival in 1221 actually no emperor.

Yolanda also had Namur, which she had inherited from her uncle Philip of Namur 1212 and her son Philip in 1216 left when she went to Constantinople Opel.

Progeny

By Peter of Courtenay they had ten children:

  • Philipp († 1226 ), Margrave of Namur, who had refused the imperial crown offered
  • Robert of Courtenay († 1228 ), Latin Emperor
  • Heinrich ( † 1229 ), Margrave of Namur
  • Baldwin II of Constantinople Opel († 1273)
  • Margaret, Countess of Namur, the only Raoul d' Issoudun married and afterwards Earl Henry of Vianden
  • Elizabeth, Count Walter von Bar and then Eudo of Montagu married
  • Jolante Courtenay (1200-1233), who married in 1215 King Andrew II of Hungary
  • Eleanor, who married Philip of Montfort
  • Married Mary, the Emperor Theodore Laskaris of Nicaea I.
  • Agnes, who married Gottfried II of Villehardouin, prince of Achaia
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