Lord/Duke of Athens contesting Peter the Ceremonious till 1387
Reign
1385/1394–1394
Predecessor
Peter the Ceremonious
Duke of Neopatras
Reign
1390–1393
Predecessor
John the Hunter
Died
17 September 1394 Athens, Duchy of Athens
Burial
Church of Saint Mary, Athens
Spouse
Agnes de' Saraceni
Issue
Bartolomea Acciaioli Francesca Acciaioli (illeg.) Antonio I Acciaioli
House
Acciaioli
Father
Jacobo Acciaioli
Mother
Bartolomea Riccasoli
Religion
Roman Catholic
Nerio I Acciaioli or Acciajuoli (full name Rainerio; died 25 September 1394) was the de facto Duke of Athens from 1385 to 1388, after which he reigned uncontested until his death in 1394. Born to a family of Florentine bankers, he became the principal agent of his influential kinsman, Niccolò Acciaioli, in Frankish Greece in 1360. He purchased large domains in the Principality of Achaea and administered them independently of the absent princes. He hired mercenaries and conquered Megara, a strategically important fortress in the Duchy of Athens, in 1374 or 1375. His troops again invaded the duchy in 1385. The Catalans who remained loyal to King Peter IV of Aragon could only keep the Acropolis of Athens, but they were also forced into surrender in 1388.
Nerio and his son-in-law, Theodore I Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, occupied the Lordship of Argos and Nauplia. Nerio received Nauplia, but the Venetians expelled his troops from the town. Nerio was captured by a mercenary commander, Pedro de San Superano, in 1389. He was released after he promised to support the Venetians to seize Argos from Theodore I. He had to cede parts of his domains to Venice as a guarantee to keep his promise, but he could not convince his son-in-law to surrender Argos. Nerio's troops captured the Duchy of Neopatras from the Catalans in 1390, but the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I conquered the territory in 1393. Thereafter Nerio paid a yearly tribute to the sultan. King Ladislaus of Naples, who claimed suzerainty over Frankish Greece, invested Nerio with the Duchy of Athens on 11 January 1394. In his last will, Nerio distributed his domains between his younger daughter, Francesca, his illegitimate son, Antonio, and the church of Saint Mary (the Parthenon) of Athens.
NerioIAcciaioli or Acciajuoli (full name Rainerio; died 25 September 1394) was the de facto Duke of Athens from 1385 to 1388, after which he reigned...
NerioAcciaioli is the name of: NerioIAcciaioli (died 1394), Italian aristocrat Nerio II Acciaioli (1416–1451), Duke of Athens This disambiguation page...
Nerio II Acciaioli (1416–1451) was the Duke of Athens on two separate occasions from 1435 to 1439 and again from 1441 to 1451. He was a member of the Acciaioli...
was Duke of Athens from 1403. Antonio was the illegitimate son of NerioIAcciaioli. Historians Kenneth Setton and Peter Lock say that Antonio was born...
II Acciaioli (died 1460), last Duke of Athens Giovanni Acciaioli (floruit 1422), archbishop of Thebes NerioIAcciaioli (died 1394), first Acciaioli Duke...
Acciaioli or Acciajuoli (died around 1396) was the wife of Theodore I Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea from 1385. She was the elder daughter of Nerio...
Francis or Francesco IAcciaioli was the son of Nerio II Acciaioli by his second wife Chiara Zorzi. He succeeded on his father's death in 1451 to the...
Francesca was the younger of the two daughters of NerioIAcciaioli and Agnes de' Saraceni. NerioAcciaioli—a scion of a prominent banking house of Florence—moved...
Francesca, daughter of the Duke of Athens NerioIAcciaioli, gave Carlo a claim on Corinth and Megara after Nerio's death, which he seized in 1395. Carlo's...
threatened by the alliance of her cousin Theodore I Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, and NerioIAcciaioli, Duke of Athens, she sought the help of Stephen...
threatened by the alliance of her cousin Theodore I Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, and NerioIAcciaioli, Duke of Athens, she sought the help of Stephen...
within the duchy. Dorotheus was expelled from his see in 1392 by Duke NerioIAcciaioli, who accused him of treacherous dealings with the Ottoman Turks, because...
possessions were permanently lost to NerioIAcciaioli in 1388 and Sicily was dissociated in the hands of Martin I from 1395 to 1409, but the Kingdom of...
the Ottomans in 1462. Athens, acquired in 1394 from the heirs of NerioIAcciaioli, but lost to the latter's bastard son Antonio in 1402–03, a fact recognized...
possession, Argos was seized by the Despot Theodore I Palaiologos, while his ally, NerioIAcciaioli seized Nauplia. The latter city was soon captured by...
Pedro de San Superano, Juan de Urtubia and the Florentine troops of NerioIAcciaioli of Corinth. The descendants of the latter then controlled the duchies...
the Ottomans in 1462. Athens, acquired in 1394 from the heirs of NerioIAcciaioli, but lost to the latter's bastard son Antonio in 1402–03, a fact recognized...
the Principality of Achaea and others probably at the bequest of NerioIAcciaioli. Gaucher hired Mahiot and the remnant of the company for eight months...
from Guillemette and Philip by Marie of Bourbon, who sold them on to NerioIAcciaioli in 1363. The barony was seized by the Navarrese Company ca. 1380,...
children: John I (27 December 1350 – 19 May 1396). Martin I (1356 – 31 May 1410). Eleanor (20 February 1358 – 13 September 1382), who married John I of Castile...
John I (27 December 1350 – 19 May 1396), called by posterity the Hunter or the Lover of Elegance, or the Abandoned in his lifetime, was the King of Aragon...
provincial capital in Monemvasia. Theodore I had married Bartolomea Acciaioli, a daughter of Duke NerioIAcciaioli of Athens but is not known to have sons...
Niccolò Acciaioli, from whom it passed to Donato Acciaioli in 1362. Donato's son Angelo Acciaioli mortgaged Corinth and Vasilika to his cousin NerioI Acciaioli...
and much of Boeotia. In 1386–1388, the ambitious lord of Corinth, NerioIAcciaioli, captured Athens and claimed the Duchy from the Crown of Aragon. With...
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