Lordship of Salona explained

Image Map Caption:The Byzantine Empire and the Latin states in southern Greece
Conventional Long Name:Lordship of Salona
Common Name:Salona
Era:Middle Ages
Subdivision:Vassal lordship (after 1318 County)
Nation:the Duchy of Athens
Government Type:Feudal principality
Year Start:1205
Year End:1410
Life Span:1205–1210
1212–1394
1404–1410
Event Start:Frankish conquest
Event End:Ottoman conquest
P1:Byzantine Empire
Flag P1:Simple Labarum.svg
S1:Ottoman Empire
Flag S1:Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1453-1844).svg
Today:Greece
Capital:Salona (La Sole)
Title Leader:Lord (after 1318, Count)
Leader1:Thomas I d'Autremencourt (first Lord)
Year Leader1:1205–1210
Leader2:Alfonso Fadrique (first Count)
Year Leader2:1318–1338

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 c. 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 c. 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
Catalan Conquest
Navarrese Conquest (1380)
First Ottoman conquest (1394 – c. 1402)
  • Byzantine Moreot conquest (1402–1404)
  • Knights Hospitaller (1404–1410)
  • Second Ottoman conquest (1410)
  • See also

    Sources

    Notes and References

    1. Book: Setton, Kenneth Meyer. Athens in the Middle Ages. registration. 14 October 2012. 1975. Variorum Reprints. 9780902089846. 246.