Principality of Achaea (Sicily)

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Was one of the vassal states of the Latin Empire, which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. Later it was subjected to a series of foreign countreis.

Establishment

May 1267: Manfred fell under Papal sanction and was killed in 1266, when Charles of Anjou conquered his kingdom. Charles was now ascendant in Italy, and William and Baldwin came to terms with him in the Treaty of Viterbo (1267).

Chronology

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Disestablishment

January 1290: Because the king of Sicily was a prisoner in Aragonese hands, the rule of Achaea devolved upon a series of baillis chosen from the Morean nobility.