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II as prince of Achaea ∞2.Catherine of Valois-Courtenay: 3.John, Duke of Durazzo Count of Gravina, prince of Taranto (2) Matilda of Hainaut princess of Achaea ∞1,Guy II de la Roche 2.Louis of Burgundy 4.Hugh de La Palice: Isabella of Sabran claimant ∞ Ferdinand of Barcelona prince of Majorca: Margaret of Taranto ∞Francis of Baux duke of ...
Geoffrey was born as the eldest son of Geoffrey of Villehardouin, a French knight from Champagne and his wife, Elisabeth of Chappes. [citation needed] 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).
Homer mentions an Achaean attack upon the delta, and Menelaus speaks of the same in Book IV of the Odyssey to Telemachus when he recounts his own return home from the Trojan War. Some ancient Greek authors also say that Helen had spent the time of the Trojan War in Egypt, and not at Troy, and that after Troy the Greeks went there to recover her ...
The Ionians took temporary refuge in Athens, and Aegialus became known as Achaea. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Pausanias says that 'Achaean' was the name of those Greeks originally inhabiting the Argolis and Laconia , because they were descended from the sons of the mythical Achaeus , Archander and Architeles . [ 23 ]
In 1208 William I of Achaea sought to claim an inheritance his brother had left to him. [5] [11] However, both the first prince of Achaea and his nephew died. [12] The Chronicle of the Morea narrates that Geoffrey only became prince of Achaea some time later. [13] The medieval castle on Larissa Hill in Argos
The Prince of Achaea was the ruler of the Principality of Achaea, one of the crusader states founded in Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204). The principality witnessed various overlords during its more than two centuries of existence, initially, Achaea was a vassal state of the Kingdom of Thessalonica under Boniface I of house Montferrat, then of the Latin Empire of ...
In Greek mythology, the Achaean Leaders were those who led the expedition to Troy to retrieve the abducted Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta.Most of the leaders were bound by the Oath of Tyndareus who made the Suitors of Helen swear that they would defend and protect the chosen husband of Helen against any wrong done against him in regard to his marriage.
William of Villehardouin (French: Guillaume de Villehardouin; Kalamata, c. 1211 – 1 May 1278) was the fourth prince of Achaea in Frankish Greece, from 1246 to 1278.The younger son of Prince Geoffrey I, he held the Barony of Kalamata in fief during the reign of his elder brother Geoffrey II.
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