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Duchy of Athens

Of Burgundian origin, the dukes of the petty lordly family from La Roche renewed the ancient city of Plato and Aristotle as a courtly European capital of chivalry.


Francisco de Moncada, 3rd Marquis of Aitona

This history gives an account of the followers of Roger de Flor in their cooperation and fighting the Byzantine Empire and later their capture of the Duchy of Athens.

Guglielma Pallavicini

In 1327, Guglielma married the Genoese Zaccaria, who had been captured while repelling, alongside Andrea Cornaro, an invasion of Alfonso Fadrique of Athens.

Walter VI, Count of Brienne

Walter VI of Brienne (née: Gaulterio de Candia, VI Comte de Brienne, c. 1304 – 19 September 1356) was Count of Brienne, Conversano, and Lecce, and titular Duke of Athens.


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