Barony of Gritzena information

The Barony of Gritzena or Gritsena was a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located in eastern Messenia, in the Peloponnese peninsula...

of Durnay, received the Barony of Gritzena in compensation. John succeeded his father as lord of Gritzena (and titular baron of Kalavryta) some time after...

Kalavryta. The Barony of Kalavryta had been lost to the Byzantines in the 1260s or early 1270s. Geoffrey received the Barony of Gritzena in compensation...

identified with the vacant Barony of Gritzena, apparently given to the Durnays as compensation. Very little is known of the barony's extent or internal history...

The Barony of Arcadia was a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located on the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece...

Byzantine Bulgaria and the Barony of Gritzena. In Wallachia, the family patriarch was allegedly the Aga Leca Racotă, aide-de-camp of Prince Michael the Brave...

baronies (terzieri, "thirds") (Chalkis, Karystos and Oreos) run by a few interrelated Lombard families, the island soon fell under the influence of the...

I of Aulnay was lord of one half of the Barony of Arcadia in the Principality of Achaea. Erard was a son of the first Baron of Arcadia, Vilain I of Aulnay...

Principality of Achaea, which comprised the entire Peloponnese. From the late 13th century, the archbishops also purchased the secular Barony of Patras from...

Shortly after 1260, a thirteenth barony, that of Arcadia (modern Kyparissia) was established, which was also a personal fief of the Villehardouins. Aside from...

provisions of Erard's will, the Angevin baillis sequestered the lands, and it was not until 1293 that Geoffrey, managed to recover Erard's half of the barony. In...

and of Agnes of Aulnay, daughter of Vilain II of Aulnay, baron of Arcadia. Stephen and Agnes married in 1324. On Vilain's death, the barony of Arcadia...

Archbishopric of Corinth is a titular see of the Latin Church. It dates to 1210, when a Catholic archbishop was installed on the Orthodox Metropolis of Corinth...

area of Damala (Troezen) in the Argolid was also given to the de la Roche, but soon passed to a cadet branch of the family, which assumed the Barony of Veligosti...

encompassing the island of Negroponte (Euboea), originally a vassal of Thessalonica, then of Achaea. It was fragmented into three baronies (terzi or "triarchies")...

location of political significance, and several parliaments and assemblies took place there, such as the adjudication on the inheritance of the Barony of Akova...

Vilain became Baron of Arcadia. Vilain had two children, Erard II and Agnes. When Vilain died, at some unknown point, the barony was divided between them...

hereditary Barony of Kalamata in Messenia. In 1280, Anna married the baron Nicholas II of Saint Omer, lord of one half of Thebes. The latter's acquisition of some...