Yolanda of Flanders
Yolanda of Flanders was the sister of Baldwin I and Henry of Flanders and wife of Peter of Courtenay. After her husband was captured in Epirus and never returned, Yolanda served as regent of the Latin Empire in Constantinople. Her regency, 1217 to 1219, was pragmatic: she recognized that the Latin Empire needed to come to terms with the Nicaean Empire rather than fight it, and she negotiated seriously with the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris. She died in August 1219, reportedly in childbirth. Yolanda is one of several women who in practice governed the Latin Empire during the frequently absent or incapacitated male imperial line.
- Lived: 1175 CE – 1219 CE
- Nationality: flemish
- Roles: empress, regent, head_of_state
