Religion Roman Catholicism Name Peter of | House House of Capet Mother Adelaide de Maurienne | |
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Issue Phillip de CourtenayPeter II de CourtenayAlice de CourtenayEustachia de CourtenayClemence de CourtenayRobert de CourtenayWilliam de CourtenayIsabella de CourtenayConstance de Courtenay Died April 10, 1183, Acre, Israel Children Peter II of Courtenay, Alice of Courtenay, Robert van Courtenay-Champignelles Parents Adelaide of Maurienne, Louis VI of France Grandparents Philip I of France, Bertha of Holland, Humbert II, Count of Savoy, Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat | ||
Peter I of Courtenay (September 1126 – 10 April 1183) was the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second wife, Adélaide de Maurienne. He was the father of the Latin Emperor Peter II of Courtenay.
Peter was born in France and died in Palestine. In about 1150, he married Elizabeth de Courtenay (1127 – September 1205), the daughter of Renaud de Courtenay and Hawise du Donjon, thus starting the Capetian line of the House of Courtenay.
Rumor has it that he is buried in a tomb in the floor of Exeter Cathedral, next to Elizabeth, however no physical evidence currently exists and the Historians at the Cathedral can find no documentation to support this rumor. The couple had ten children:
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