Yolanda, Latin Empress

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Yolanda
Robert
Latin Empress consort
Tenure1216 – 1217 (de facto) or 1219 (de jure)
Born1175
Died1219 (aged 43–44)
Spouse
Peter, Latin Emperor
Issue
Detail
Baldwin V, Count of Hainault
MotherMargaret I, Countess of Flanders

Yolanda (

Marchioness of Namur
from 1212 until 1217.

Biography

Yolanda was the daughter of

Baldwin I and then Henry, were emperors in Constantinople.[1]

In 1212, Yolanda became

Marchioness of Namur
after her brother, Marquis Philip I.

After the death of her brother emperor Henry in 1216 there was a brief period without an emperor, before Peter was elected to succeed her brother.

Because of

Salic Law, Yolande could not succeed to the throne, and her husband became emperor instead.[2]

On their way there, Peter sent Yolanda ahead to Constantinople, while he fought the Despotate of Epirus, during which he was captured. Because his fate was unknown (although he was probably killed), Yolanda governed Constantinople alone for two years.

She allied with the

Theodore I Lascaris of the Empire of Nicaea
, who married her daughter, Marie.

Her husband died after two years in prison, and she died herself in August 1219.[3]

Legacy

Following Yolanda's death, her second son,

Robert of Courtenay, became emperor because her oldest son, Philip, did not want the throne.[4] Robert was still in France
at the time.

Yolanda was, in her own right,

Marchioness of Namur
, which she inherited from her brother, Marquis Philip I, in 1212 and left to her eldest son, Marquis Philip II, when she went to Constantinople in 1216.

Issue

By Peter of Courtenay she had 10 children:

References

  1. ^ a b Rasmussen 1997, p. 9.
  2. ^ Hazlitt, William Carew (1860). History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization. Vol. 2. Smith. p. 132. The provisions of the Salic Law precluding Yolande from the succession in her own person, she was forced to content herself with ascending the throne in the right of her husband, Peter Courtenay, Count of Namur, whom the Barons of Romania consented to invest with the imperial title.
  3. ^ Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne (in French). Vol. 33. Michaud. 1854. p. 250. Yolande gouverna son petit empire avec sagesse pendant la prison de son mari et mourut elle-même en août 1219.
  4. ^ a b c Nicol 2002, p. 12.

Sources

Yolanda, Latin Empress
House of Hainaut
Cadet branch of the House of Flanders
Born: 1175 Died: 1219
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Philip I
Marchioness of Namur

1212–1216
Vacant
Title next held by
Philip II
Preceded by
Latin Empress of Constantinople

1217–1219
Vacant
Title next held by
Robert
Royal titles
Preceded by Latin Empress consort
of Constantinople

1216–1217
Vacant
Title next held by
Lady of Neuville