Triarchy of Negroponte (Thessalonica)

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Was a state established on the island of Euboea after the partition of the Byzantine Empire following the Fourth Crusade. Initially a vassal of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, it became a vassal of Achea in 1208 and finally a possession of the Republic of Venice.

Establishment

October 1204: The Triarchy of Negroponte (Thessalonica) was a crusader state established between 1204 and 1470 on the island of Euboea.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.Fourth Crusade

Was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem. However, the Western Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204 and partitioned the Byzantine Empire.

Disestablishment

January 1209: 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.