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- Guy II de la Roche, also known as Guyot or Guidotto (1280 – 5 October 1308), was the Duke of Athens from 1287, the last duke of his family. He succeeded as a minor on the death of his father, William I, at a time when the duchy of Athens had exceeded the Principality of Achaea in wealth, power, and importance.
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Guy II de la Roche, also known as Guyot or Guidotto (1280 – 5 October 1308), was the Duke of Athens from 1287, the last duke of his family. He succeeded as a minor on the death of his father, William I , [1] at a time when the duchy of Athens had exceeded the Principality of Achaea in wealth, power, and importance.
- Establishment of The Duchy
- Latin Dukes
- Catalan Athens
- The Final Decades
Following the sacking of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 CE, the Latin crusaders and Venetians carved up the Byzantine Empire. Under this partition, the new Latin Empire would receive one-fourth of the ByzantineEmpire, including Constantinople. The Venetians and the other Latin crusaders would each receive a quarter and a half of the B...
Guy's rule was generally successful, and Athens was prosperous during this period, being left unmolested by its neighbors. The War of the Euboeote Succession (1256-1258 CE) brought this peace to a close as Guy backed the local Euboean triarchs and the Venetians but was defeated by Prince William II Villehardouin of Achaea (r. 1246-1278 CE) in 1258 ...
The Catalans quickly acknowledged the suzerainty of Frederick III of Sicily (r. 1295-1337 CE), whom the Catalan Company had previously served in Sicily before entering Byzantine service. Frederick appointed his son Manfred (r. 1312-1317 CE), and Catalan rule over Athens would thus primarily be in the hands of second and third sons of the Aragonese ...
The final decades of the Duchy of Athens were a sad affair, and it was only a matter of time until the territory fell to one of its more powerful neighbors. Nerio I Acciaioli (r. 1388-1394 CE) ruled for a time, but briefly after his death, Athens was besieged by the Ottoman Turks, who emerged over the previous century as the leading power in the re...
Notable members. Alice de la Roche (unknown-1282), Lady of Beirut, Regent of Beirut. Guy I de la Roche (1205–1263), Frankish Duke of Athens. Guy II de la Roche (1280–1308), Frankish Duke of Athens. Isabella de la Roche, (died c.1291), daughter of Guy I de la Roche and wife of Geoffrey of Briel.
De la Roche family. Of Burgundian origin, the dukes of the petty lordly family from La Roche renewed the ancient city of Plato and Aristotle as a courtly European capital of chivalry. The state they built around it was, throughout their tenure, the strongest and most peaceful of the Latin creations in Greece. Otto (1205–1225) Guy I (1225–1263)
Aug 6, 2020 · Thessaly was an independent state in medieval Greece from 1267 or 1268 to 1394 CE, first as the Greek -ruled Thessaly and later as the Catalan and Latin-ruled Duchy of Neopatras. Under its sebastokrators, Thessaly was a thorn in the side of the Byzantine Empire and an ally of the Latin states in Greece and southern Italy.
Aug 4, 2020 · World History Encyclopedia, 04 Aug 2020. Web. 21 May 2024. Silver denier of Guy II de la Roche (r. 1287-1308 CE), Duke of Athens. Minted in Thebes, Duchy of Athens.
Apr 26, 2022 · Guy II de La Roche, Duke of Athens's Timeline. Genealogy for Guy II de La Roche, Duke of Athens (1280 - 1308) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
