Jolante of Flanders

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Jolante von Flanders , sometimes also called Jolante von Hennegau († 1219 ), was a Countess of Namur and Empress and Regent of the Latin Empire of Constantinople from the House of Flanders . She was a daughter of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut and Countess Margaret I of Flanders .

Life

Jolante was betrothed to Count Heinrich II of Champagne for the first time in 1181 , who had previously been betrothed to her sister Isabella , although both marriages were ultimately not concluded. In July 1193 she was finally married in Soissons to Peter von Courtenay , Count of Auxerre, as his second wife. In 1212 she inherited the last of her four brothers, Philip , as Countess of Namur.

The two oldest brothers Jolantes, Balduin and Heinrich , were among the leaders of the fourth crusade and, after the conquest of Constantinople , officiated successively as the first emperors of the newly established Latin empire. Both died without heirs in 1205 and 1216, whereupon the Latin barons Peter von Courtenay proclaimed their eldest sister to be their new emperor. Leaving their two older sons behind, Peter and Jolante set out for Italy, where Peter met Pope Honorius III in St. Laurentius outside the walls of Rome on April 9, 1217 . was anointed and crowned emperor. Two days later, Peter first documented it with an imperial title, and Jolante was also named Empress (Yolens, eius vxor, eadem gratia Imperatrix) for the first time on this occasion. From then on, traveling separately, Jolante, who was again pregnant, took the direct sea route from Italy to Constantinople with her daughters. During a stopover on Morea , she married her daughter Agnes to the Prince of Achaia , Gottfried II von Villehardouin , who recognized the emperor's sovereignty over his principality on the occasion. At the same time, her husband fell in captivity in the fight against the Greek despot of Epirus, in which he died at an unknown time. After her arrival in Constantinople, Jolante took over the deputy reign of the empire as emperor's wife. She also gave birth to her last child here, the future Emperor Baldwin II.

As regent of the Latin Constantinople, Jolante sought a peaceful settlement with the hostile Greek rival Emperor of Nicaea , Theodor I. Laskaris , and in 1219 married her daughter Maria to him. Shortly afterwards she passed away.

progeny

Jolante had several children from Peter von Courtenay:

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Todt: Violante (Yolande) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 1710.
  • Kenneth M. Setton: The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). Vol. 1, Philadelphia 1976.
  • Filip Van Tricht: Robert of Courtenay (1221–1227): An Idiot on the Throne of Constantinople? , in: Speculum 88 (2013) 996-1034.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Gislebert von Mons , Chronicon Hanoniense, in: MGH SS 21, p. 530.
  2. ↑ Cf. Gislebert von Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense, in: MGH SS 21, p. 583f.
  3. ↑ Cf. August Potthast: Regesta Pontificium Romanorum. Vol. 1, No. 5513, 1874, p. 485; Setton, p. 44.
  4. ↑ Cf. GL Fr. Tafel & GM Thomas: Documents on the earlier commercial and state history of the Republic of Venice. Vol. 2 (1856), No. CCIL, pp. 193ff.
  5. ↑ See Setton, p. 45.
predecessor Office successor
Philip I. Margravine of Namur
1212–1217 		Philip II
Mary of Bulgaria Empress of the Latin Empire
1217–1219 		Mary of Brienne
personal data
SURNAME Jolante of Flanders
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jolante of Hainaut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Empress of the Latin Empire (1217–1219)
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1219