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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.
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).
[5] [6] The three fortresses were kept under siege by the Crusaders until the fall of Acrocorinth in 1210, followed by Nauplia and finally by Argos in 1212. The Lord of Athens, Otto de la Roche (r. 1204–1225/34), played a major role in their capture, and as a reward the Prince of Achaea Geoffrey I of Villehardouin (r.
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 ...
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 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]
He was a younger son of Bela of Saint Omer and Bonne de la Roche, sister of the Lord of Athens and Thebes, Guy I de la Roche.Upon their marriage, in 1240, Guy gave Bela the lordship over half of Thebes.