Yolande de Flandres Byzantine Empress

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁸⁸
Peter de Courtenay, Count of Courtenay, Marquis of Namur, Emperor of Constantinople, b. about 1155, died Epirus, between before Jan 1218, married between 24 Jun and 1 Jul 1193 Yolande of Flanders, countess and heir of Namur. Yolande was born about 1175 and died in Constantinople Aug 1219. Yolande's parents were Baldwin V comté of Hainaut and Margarite of Lorraine. Yolande of Flanders and her husband Peter de Courtenay were the parents of Yolande de Courtenay who married Andrew II, King of Hungary.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 107:27, 163A:27-29

• Web Reference: Yolanda of Flanders.
Yolanda of Flanders (1175-1219) ruled the Latin Empire in Constantinople for her husband Peter II of Courtenay from 1217 to 1219.

Yolanda of Flanders was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainault, and Countess Margaret I of Flanders. Two of her brothers, Baldwin I and then Henry, were emperors in Constantinople. After the death of the latter in 1216 there was a brief period without an emperor, before Peter was elected.

Yolande married Pierre comté de Courtenay Byzantine Emperor, son of Pierre I de Courtenay prince de France and Elizabeth de Courtenay.¹⁶⁰ (Pierre comté de Courtenay Byzantine Emperor was born about 1198 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France ¹⁶⁰ and died before Jan 1218 in Epirus ¹⁶⁰.)