Pierre de France

Lord of Courtenay

Events

Date of Birth: 1126.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Sirjean (p. 57).

Date of Death: 10 March, between 1180 and 1183/4.

Place of Death: Palestine.

The date and place are given by Cawley. Sirjean (p. 57) gives 1183.

Relationships

Father: Louis VI “le Gros”, king of France.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 88), by Sirjean (p. 57), by Lewis (p. 58), and by Dufour (fig. 8).

Mother: Adélaïde de Maurienne.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 88), by Sirjean (p. 57), by Lewis (p. 58), and by Dufour (fig. 8).

Spouse: Elisabeth de Courtenay.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 88), by Sirjean (p. 57), and by Dufour (fig. 8).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Pierre de Courtenay, later Pierre I, emperor of Constantinople, married (1) Agnès, countess of Nevers, of Auxerre, and of Tonnerre; married (2) Yolande de Flandre.

Alix de Courtenay (died 12 February 1218) married (1) Guillaume, count of Joigny; married (2) Adémar, count of Angoulême.

Eustachie de Courtenay married (1) Guillaume de Brienne; married (2) Guillaume de Champlitte; married (3) Guillaume, count of Sancerre.

Clemence de Courtenay married Guy, lord of Thiern.

Robert de Courtenay (died 5 October 1239) married (1) Constance; married (2) Mathilde de Mehun.

Philippe de Courtenay.

Isabelle de Courtenay.

Constance de Courtenay married Guillaume, lord of La Ferté-Arnaud.

Guillaume de Courtenay married (1) Adeline de Noyers; married (2) Nicole.

Agnès de Courtenay.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “PIERRE (I) de France” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Dufour, Jean. "Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137), à la lumière des actes royaux et des source narratives" in Comples rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 134e année, N.2, 1990. pp. 456-482.

Eickels, Karl van. Kapetinger I genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Lewis, Andrew W. Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State, (Harvard University Press, 1981).

Sirjean, Gaston. Encyclopédie généalogique des maisons souveraines du monde: Première Partie No. 3 Les Capétiens Directs (1959).