{{Infobox monarch | name = Geoffrey II<br>{{lang|fr|Geoffroi II}} | title = Prince of Achaea | image = Coat of arms of the Principality of Achaea.svg | caption = Coat of Arms of the Principality of Achaea | reign = ''c.'' 1229-1246 | predecessor = Geoffrey I | successor = William II | spouse = {{ill|Agnes of Courtenay (princess of Achaea)|es|Inés de Courtenay (princesa de Acaya)|lt=Agnes of Courtenay}} | issue = ''None'' | father = Geoffrey I | mother = Elisabeth of Chappes | dynasty = Villehardouin | birth_date = ''c.'' 1195 | birth_place = ''Unknown'' | death_date = after May 6, 1246 | death_place = ''Unknown'' | burial_place = Church of St James, Andravida }} '''Geoffrey II of Villehardouin''' ({{langx|fr|Geoffroi II de Villehardouin}}) (''c.'' 1195- after May 6, 1246) was the third prince of Achaea (''c.'' 1229-1246).<ref name='Longnon 242'>Longnon 1969, p. 242.</ref> He battled in the imperial capital three times.<ref name='Longnon 242'/>
== Early years == Geoffrey was born as the eldest son of Geoffrey of Villehardouin, a French knight from Champagne and his wife, Elisabeth of Chappes.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} His father entered the Fourth Crusade in 1205, later conquered a significant part of the Peloponnese and seized the throne of the Principality of Achaea following the death of its first prince, William I (1205–1209).<ref>Fine 1994, pp. 69-72.</ref>
His marriage occurred during 1217.<ref name='Longnon 242'/>
== His reign == Geoffrey II took the throne by 1230.<ref name='Longnon 242'/>
In July 1237 he gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Andravida.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}
Geoffrey II died in 1246 and was buried in his capital, Andravida, in the church of the monastery of St. Jacob.
==Footnotes== {{reflist|30em}}
==See also== *Principality of Achaea *Chronicle of Morea
==References== * {{The Late Medieval Balkans}} * {{Setton-A History of the Crusades | volume = 2 | chapter = The Frankish States in Greece, 1204–1311 | pages = 234–275 | last = Longnon | first = Jean | chapter-url= https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A6YRA3XHH2ASDG8R/pages/A5EWH6IVRXJFVV8J}}
==External links== *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2850425 Finley jr, John H.: ''Corinth in the Middle Ages.'' Speculum, Vol. 7, No. 4. 1932, pp. 477-499.] *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/623369 Tozer, H. F.: ''The Franks in the Peloponnese.'' The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 4. (1883), pp. 165-236.]
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