State · 1204 – 1261
Latin Empire
A state of 1204 – 1261 — 57 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Byzantine Empire. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 57 years
- 1204 – 1261
- Rulers
- 8
- the Regent of the Latin Empire
- Most ground
- 92,500 km²
- in 1220
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
After it
- Byzantine Empire · replaced by · 285 – 1453
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin I, Latin Emperor | 1204 – 1205 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Henry of Flanders | 1205 – 1206 | 1 year | ending not on record | sibling |
| Peter II of Courtenay | 1217 – 1217 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Yolanda of Flanders | 1217 – 1219 | 2 years | ending not on record | spouse |
| Robert of Courtenay | 1221 – 1228 | 7 years | ending not on record | child |
| Marie of Courtenay | 1227 – 1228 | 1 year | ending not on record | sibling |
| Baldwin II, Latin Emperor | 1228 – 1261 | 33 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| John of Brienne | 1229 – 1237 | 8 years | ending not on record |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1204 – 1261. Median reign 1.5 years. 2 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
89,000 km² in 1214, 3,000 km² in 1261; at its largest 92,500 km² in 1224. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedArms of Courtenay-Constantinople · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Arms of Robert de Tarente.svg : Carlodangio Derivate work: The White Lion
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1200 – 12992 rows
- Baldwin II, Latin Emperor · person · 1217 – 1273
- Philip of Courtenay · person · 1243 – 1283
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood57 years
stood longer than 36% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held92,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1194 – 1271, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1220, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q178897 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.