Margraviate of Boudonitza
The margraviate of Boudonitza was a feudal territory in medieval Greece . It was founded as a result of the fourth crusade in 1204 by the Western European-Latin crusaders and thus represents one of the crusader states .
The main town of the market is today's Mendenitsa, which belongs to the municipality of Molos in the district of Fthiotida in the administrative region of Central Greece .
The Mark Boudonitza was founded in 1204 by Boniface of Montferrat as a fiefdom of his kingdom of Thessaloniki by handing over the rule in Boudonitza to his Italian follower Guido Pallavicini and at the same time entrusting him with guarding the strategically important bottleneck of the Thermophylen . Pallavicini built a castle over the village in the following years, which became the ancestral seat of his descendants. The territory of the margravate also included the city of Lamia , in which a Latin diocese was installed. The Mark Boudonitza survived the conquest of Thessaloniki by the Byzantine despot of Epirus in 1224 , which from then on represented the northernmost Latin territory in Greece and, compared to its southern Latin neighbor, the Duchy of Athens , in fact the tasks of a border march against the hostile Byzantine Epirus and Thessaloniki took over. Boudonitza came under feudal rights in the middle of the 13th century but under the rule of the Principality of Achaia .
The margraviate also survived the conquest of Athens by the Catalan Company in 1311, but lost Lamia to them and had to pay tribute to them. Due to the inheritance of the Zorzi family, Boudonitza initially came under the influence of Venice , from 1393 it had to pay tribute to the Ottoman Sultan . On June 20, 1414, Boudonitza was finally conquered by the Ottomans, the title of margrave was continued for some time by descendants of the Zorzi family.
List of margraves
Pallavicini
- 1204-1237: Guido Pallavicini
- 1237–1264: Ubertino Pallavicini , his son
- 1264–1286: Isabella Pallavicini , his sister
- 1278–1286: Antoine le Flamenc , her husband
- 1286 - ????: Tommaso Pallavicini , Guido's great-nephew
- ???? - 1311: Alberto Pallavicini , his son (killed in the battle of Cephissus )
- 1311–1358: Guglielma Pallavicini , his daughter
- 1311–1323: Maria da Verona , her mother
- 1312–1323: Andrea Cornaro , husband of Maria
- 1327–1334: Bartholomeo Zaccaria , first husband of Guglielma
Zorzi
- 1335–1345: Niccolò I. Zorzi , second husband of Guglielma
- 1345–1388: Francesco Zorzi , their son
- 1388–1410: Giacomo Zorzi , his son
- 1410–1414: Niccolò II. Zorzi , his son
literature
- William Miller : The Marquisate of Boudonitza (1204-1414). In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies. (JHS). Vol. 28, No. 2, 1908, pp. 234-249, doi : 10.2307 / 624608 .