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Name: Duchy of Athens (Latin Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1210 AD

End: 1261 AD

Nation: duchy of athens

Parent: latin empire

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Was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade during the period of the so-called Frankokratia. Initially a vassal of the Latin Empire, it enjoyed intermittent periods of autonomy and vassalage to several different countries. It was finally conquered by the expanding Ottoman Empire in 1458.

Establishment


  • January 1210: Emperor Henry of Flanders' expedition against the rebellious Lombard barons of Thessalonica in 1208-09, ended the feudal dependency of the southern principalities (the Duchy of Athens, the Marquisate of Bodonitsa, the Lordship of Salona, and the Triarchy of Negroponte) on Thessalonica, replacing it with direct imperial suzerainty.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Henry


    Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.

  • January 1213: Following their conquest in 1211-1212, the cities of Thebes and Athens were granted as a fief to Otto de la Roche, Duke of Athens, by Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea. The territory became part of the Duchy of Athens under Latin Empire control.

  • 2. Re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire


    The recapture of the city of Constantinople by the forces of the Empire of Nicaea, led to the re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty, after an interval of 57 years where the city had been the capital of the Latin Empire installed by the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

  • July 1261: The Nicaean Empire recovered Constantinople and rended the Latin Empire in 1261. All the vassals of the Latin Empire therefore became independente realms.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1221: Spetses (Velvina or Spezia) was a Venetian colony from 1220.

  • Disestablishment


  • July 1261: The Nicaean Empire recovered Constantinople and rended the Latin Empire in 1261. All the vassals of the Latin Empire therefore became independente realms.
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