Robert I, Latin Emperor
Latin Emperor of Constantinople
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Updated 2026-06-21
He inherited an empire already crumbling, crowned in Constantinople just in time to watch it shrink. Robert of Courtenay spent seven years losing territory to rival Christian states while popes called crusades no one answered.
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Robert was a younger son of Peter II of Courtenay and Yolanda of Flanders, born in 1201. When his eldest brother Philip renounced the Latin throne in 1219, Robert set out for Constantinople, stopping in Hungary where his brother-in-law Andrew II hosted him through winter 1220–1221 and helped broker a marriage alliance with Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II. Crowned emperor on 25 March 1221, Robert immediately faced collapse: Thessalonica fell to Theodore Doukas of Epirus in 1224, and defeat at Poimanenos forced him to confirm all of Nicaea's conquests. He was twice engaged to Eudokia Laskarina — the…
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