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Geoffrey of Durnay (French: Geoffroi de Durnay) was the Baron of Kalavryta in the Principality of Achaea. He was son of Otho of Durnay, the first Baron of Kalavryta. The Barony of Kalavryta had been lost to the Byzantines in the 1260s or early 1270s. [1] Geoffrey received the Barony of Gritzena in compensation.
Achaea was founded in 1205 by William of Champlitte and Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, who undertook to conquer the Peloponnese on behalf of Boniface of Montferrat, King of Thessalonica. With a force of no more than 100 knights and 500 foot soldiers, they took Achaea and Elis , and after defeating the local Greeks in the Battle of the Olive Grove ...
Triarchy of Negroponte (4 C, 5 P) P. ... Pages in category "Principality of Achaea" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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 ]
Isabella of Villehardouin (1260/63–1312), Princess of Achaea in 1289–1307; married Philip of Sicily (died 1277), Florent of Hainaut (died 1297), Philip of Savoy (died 1334) Matilda of Hainaut (died 1331), Lady of Kalamata in 1297–1308, 1311–1322, Princess of Achaea in 1313–1318; married Guy II de la Roche (died 1308), Louis of ...
Sometime around 1382, Centurione died and Andronikos Asen Zaccaria inherited the Barony of Chalandritsa and the title of Grand Constable of Achaea. [4] He married Catherine Le Maure, [5] a daughter of Erard III Le Maure, Baron of Arcadia with the marriage following the Greek Orthodox rite. [6]
The Barony of Chalandritsa was a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located in the northern Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, and centred on the town of Chalandritsa (Greek: Χαλανδρίτσα; French: Calandrice, Calendrice; Italian: Calandrizza; Aragonese: C[h]alandrica) south of Patras. [1]
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