Philip II (Namur)

Philip II of Courtenay (* 1195 ; † 1226 at Saint-Flour ), was a margrave of Namur from the House of Courtenay from 1216 to 1226 . He was the eldest of four sons of Peter of Courtenay and Jolante of Flanders . He was called "the one with the lip" (Latin: Philippus dictus de labra , French: Philippe à la Lèvre ) and was praised for his chivalry.

Life

After the death of his maternal uncle, Margrave Philip I of Namur , Philip was considered his heir. Since Namur was a fiefdom of the Holy Roman Empire , this led to the situation in the battle of Bouvines in 1214 that Philip fought there in the army of Emperor Otto IV against his own father, who belonged to the army of King Philip II of France .

After his parents were determined to succeed him in the Latin Empire in Constantinople in 1216 , Philip took over the government in Namur and also the ancestral seat of his Courtenay family in France. On November 4, 1216, he first documented as margrave (marchio Namurcensis). After the death of his parents in December 1219, he was appointed by the Latin barons as their successor to the imperial dignity. A Venetian report from this period already calls him "Kaiser" (domino et Imperatore Philippum). However, Philip rejected the dignity offered to him and, after consulting King Philip II of France, recommended his younger brother Robert to the imperial throne.

Philip fought the descendants of Henry IV of Luxembourg , who had not given up their claim to Namur. To this end, he had allied himself with his cousin, Countess Johanna von Flanders . After a defeated battle, Walram IV of Limburg finally renounced Namur after mediation by Archbishop Egelbert of Cologne in the Treaty of Dinant of March 13, 1223.

In 1226 Philip took part in King Louis VIII's Albigensian Crusade . During the siege of Avignon, he fell ill with an epidemic, which he died on the way back near Saint-Flour . He was buried in the Abbey of Vaucelles . Since he was unmarried, Namur passed on to his younger brother Heinrich .

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Remarks

^ Alberich von Trois-Fontaines : Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 906.
^ A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique, Volume 3, 1871, p. 460; F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg, Volume 1, No. V, 1844, p. 9.
↑ GL Fr. Tafel, GM Thomas: Documents on the older commercial and state history of the Republic of Venice. Vol. 2, No. CCLVII, 1856, pp. 215-221.
↑ L'estoire de Eracles. In: RHC Hist. Occ. 2, p. 294; Chronicon Turonense. In: RHGF . 18, p. 300.
^ A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 3, 1871, pp. 589f; F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. VIII, 1844, pp. 135ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jolante	Margrave of Namur 1216–1226	Henry II

personal data
SURNAME	Philip II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Philip II of Courtenay; Philip with the lip; Philippe à la Lèvre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Margrave of Namur
DATE OF BIRTH	1195
DATE OF DEATH	1226
Place of death	at Saint-Flour

[1] Alberich von Trois-Fontaines : Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 906.

[2] A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique, Volume 3, 1871, p. 460; F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg, Volume 1, No. V, 1844, p. 9.

[3] GL Fr. Tafel, GM Thomas: Documents on the older commercial and state history of the Republic of Venice. Vol. 2, No. CCLVII, 1856, pp. 215-221.

[4] L'estoire de Eracles. In: RHC Hist. Occ. 2, p. 294; Chronicon Turonense. In: RHGF . 18, p. 300.

[5] A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 3, 1871, pp. 589f; F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. VIII, 1844, pp. 135ff.