Lordship of Salona

Lordship of Salona
Vassal lordship (after 1318 County) of the Duchy of Athens
← 1205–1210 1212–1394 1404–1410 →
Capital		Salona (La Sole)
Government		Feudal principality
Lord (after 1318, Count)
•	1205–1210	Thomas I d'Autremencourt (first Lord)
•	1318–1338	Alfonso Fadrique (first Count)
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Frankish conquest	1205
•	Ottoman conquest	1410
Today part of		Greece

The Lordship of Salona, after 1318 the County of Salona, was a Crusader state established after the Fourth Crusade (1204) in Central Greece, around the town of Salona (modern Amfissa, known in French as La Sole and Italian as La Sola).

History

The first lord of Salona, Thomas I d'Autremencourt (or de Stromoncourt), was named by Boniface of Montferrat, the King of Thessalonica, in 1205. After the fall of the Thessalonica to the forces of Epirus, and a short-lived Epirote occupation in c. 1210–1212, Salona became a vassal of the Principality of Achaea, but later came under increasing dependency from the Duchy of Athens. In 1318, the lordship came under the rule of the Catalan Fadrique family, the leader of the Catalan Company, who claimed the title of Count of Salona. Among the eighteen Catalan vassals of the area in 1380-1 the Count of Salona ranks first above Count Demitre and the Margrave of Bodonitsa.^[1] Due to the unpopularity of the Dowager Countess Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, in 1394, the town opened its gates to the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I. It fell for a short time into the hands of the Despotate of the Morea c. 1402. The Despot Theodore I Palaiologos sold Salona to the Knights Hospitaller in 1404, but it fell again to the Ottomans in 1410.

Rulers

The citadel of Amfissa, built by the Latin rulers of the town, from a 1918 postcard

d'Autremencourt/de Stromoncourt family

• Thomas I d'Autremencourt (r. 1205–1210)
• Thomas II d'Autremencourt (r. 1212–1258), son of Thomas I
• William d'Autremencourt (r. 1258–1294), son of Thomas II
• Thomas III d'Autremencourt (r. 1294–1311), son of William, killed at the Battle of the Cephissus

Catalan Conquest

• Roger Deslaur (r. 1311–1318)
• Alfonso Fadrique (r. 1318–1338)
• Peter Fadrique (r. 1338–1350/55), eldest son of Alfonso
• James Fadrique (r. c. 1355–1366), second son of Alfonso
• Boniface Fadrique (r. 1366–c. 1375), brother of James
• Louis Fadrique (r. c. 1375–1380/81), son of James

Navarrese Conquest (1380)

• Maria Fadrique (r. 1382–1394), daughter of Louis, under the regency of her mother, Helena Asanina Kantakouzene

First Ottoman conquest (1394 – c. 1402)

Byzantine Moreot conquest (1402–1404)

Knights Hospitaller (1404–1410)

Second Ottoman conquest (1410)

See also

• Latin Bishopric of Salona

References

Sources

• Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
• Longnon, Jean (1937). "Les Autremencourt, seigneurs de Salona en Grèce (1204-1311)". Bulletin de la Société historique de Haute-Picardie (in French). 15: 15–48.
• Miller, William (1908), The Latins in the Levant, a History of Frankish Greece (1204–1566), New York: E.P. Dutton and Company
• "County of Salona". Latin Occupation in the Greek Lands. Foundation of the Hellenic World. Retrieved 2011-01-22.