Lordship of Salona
| Lordship of Salona | |||||
| Vassal lordship (after 1318 County) of the Duchy of Athens | |||||
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| Capital | Salona (La Sole) | ||||
| Government | Feudal principality | ||||
| Lord (after 1318, Count) | |||||
| - | 1205–1210 | Thomas I d'Autremencourt (first Lord) | |||
| - | 1318–1338 | Alfonso Fadrique (first Count) | |||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||
| - | Frankish conquest | 1205 | |||
| - | Ottoman conquest | 1410 | |||
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The Lordship of Salona, after 1318 the County of Salona, was a Crusader state established after the Fourth Crusade (1204) in Central Greece, around the town of Salona (modern Amfissa, known in French as La Sole and Italian as La Sola).
History
The first lord of Salona, Thomas I d'Autremencourt (or de Stromoncourt), was named by Boniface of Montferrat, the King of Thessalonica, in 1205. After the fall of the Thessalonica to the forces of Epirus, and a short-lived Epirote occupation in ca. 1210–1212, Salona became a vassal of the Principality of Achaea, but later came under increasing dependency from the Duchy of Athens. In 1318, the lordship came under the rule of the Catalan Fadrique family, the leader of the Catalan Company, who claimed the title of Count of Salona. Among the eighteen Catalan vassals of the area in 1380-1 the Count of Salona ranks first above Count Demitre and the Margrave of Bodonitsa.[1] Due to the unpopularity of the Dowager Countess Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, in 1394, the town opened its gates to the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I. It fell for a short time into the hands of the Despotate of the Morea ca. 1402. The Despot Theodore I Palaiologos sold Salona to the Knights Hospitaller in 1404, but it fell again to the Ottomans in 1410.
Rulers
- d'Autremencourt/de Stromoncourt family
- Thomas I d'Autremencourt (r. 1205–1210)
- Thomas II d'Autremencourt (r. 1212–1258), son of Thomas I
- William d'Autremencourt (r. 1258–1294), son of Thomas II
- Thomas III d'Autremencourt (r. 1294–1311), son of William, killed at the Battle of the Cephissus
- Catalan Conquest
- Roger Deslaur (r. 1311–1318)
- Alfonso Fadrique (r. 1318–1338)
- Pedro Fadrique (r. 1338–1350), eldest son of Alfonso
- Jaime Fadrique (r. ca. 1355–1365), second son of Alfonso, his rule was largely nominal
- Louis Fadrique (r. 1365–1380), son of Jaime
- Navarrese Conquest (1380)
- Maria Fadrique (r. 1382–1394), daughter of Luis, under the regency of her mother, Helena Asanina Kantakouzene
- First Ottoman conquest (1394 – ca. 1402/1403)
- Byzantine Moreot conquest (1402/1403–1404)
- Knights Hospitaller (1404–1410)
- Second Ottoman conquest (1410)
Sources
- ↑ Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1975). Athens in the Middle Ages. Variorum Reprints. p. 246. ISBN 9780902089846. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
- Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
- Miller, William (1908), The Latins in the Levant, a History of Frankish Greece (1204–1566), New York: E.P. Dutton and Company
- "County of Salona". Latin Occupation in the Greek Lands. Foundation of the Hellenic World. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
