Geoffrey II of Villehardouin

Geoffrey II Geoffroi
Prince of Achaea
Coat of Arms of the Principality of Achaea
Reign	c. 1229-1246
Predecessor	Geoffrey I
Successor	William II
Born	c. 1195 Unknown
Died	after May 6, 1246 Unknown
Burial	Church of St James, Andravida
Spouse	Agnes of Courtenay
Issue	None
Dynasty	Villehardouin
Father	Geoffrey I
Mother	Elisabeth of Chappes

Geoffrey II of Villehardouin (French: Geoffroi de Villehardouin) (c. 1195- after May 6, 1246) was the third prince of Achaea (c. 1229-1246). From his accession to the princely throne, he was a powerful and respected person, and even from France knights came to the principality to enter his service. Geoffrey II emerged as the most powerful vassal of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, the person around whom the crusaders' states in modern Greece gradually regrouped themselves. He came to the rescue of the imperial capital three times. As a reward of his services to the Latin Empire, he was granted suzerainty over the island of Euboea by his brother-in-law, Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople (1228–1261). He was also a humane prince, benevolent and just, solicitous for the condition of the common people.

Geoffrey was born as the eldest son of Geoffrey of Villehardouin, a French knight from Champagne and his wife, Elisabeth of Chappes. His father joined the Fourth Crusade in 1199, 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).

The new prince summoned his wife from Champagne during the early period of his residence in the Peloponnese. She came with their young son, Geoffrey and the family took up its residence in the castles of La Crémonie (now Sparta, Greece) and Kalamata.

In 1217 the young Geoffrey married Agnes, the daughter of Emperor Peter I of Constantinople (1217).