Antonio I Acciaioli
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Antonio I Acciaioli, also known as Anthony I Acciaioli or Antonio I Acciajuoli (died January 1435), was
Early life
Antonio was the illegitimate son of Nerio I Acciaioli.[1][2] Historians Kenneth Setton and Peter Lock say that Antonio was born to Maria Rendi,[3][1] but Dionysios Stathakopoulos writes that his parentage is an assumption.[4] Her father, the Orthodox Greek Demetrius Rendi, defended Megara against Nerio Acciaioli, for which Frederick the Simple made him the hereditary chancellor of Athens in the late 1370s.[4][5] Nerio's capture of Megara in 1374 or 1375 was the first step towards his conquest of the Duchy of Athens that he completed in 1388.[6]
Nerio fathered two legitimate daughters,
Lord of Thebes
Nerio I Acciaioli made his last will on 17 September 1394.[9] He bequeathed two important castles in Boeotia, Livadeia and Thebes, to Antonio, but willed most of his domains to Francesca and left the town of Athens to the Church of Saint Mary on the Acropolis of Athens.[8][10] He died on 25 September.[6] Bartolomea and her husband did not respect her father's testament and claimed Corinth from Francesca.[8] Antonio, who supported their claim, joined Theodore I's military campaign against Francesca's domains and they laid siege to Corinth.[11]
A small Ottoman Turk force attacked the Acropolis of Athens and Nerio's brother, Donato, who had inherited the title of Duke of Athens, was in no position to defend the town.
Duke of Athens
Antonio made a surprise attack against Attica and captured the lower town of Athens in the first half of 1402.
Antonio's kinsman Cardinal
Antonio, who styled himself as "lord of Athens, Thebes, of all the duchy and its dependencies", was the longest-ruling medieval monarch of Athens.
Antonio never forgot his
Antonio died still in power in January 1435 without legitimate children and his succession to the duchy was disputed between his nephews Nerio II and Antonio II and his widow (Maria Melissene?).[25]
References
- ^ a b Lock 1995, p. 368.
- ^ a b Setton 1975, p. 252.
- ^ Setton 1975, pp. 255–256.
- ^ a b Stathakopoulos 2018, p. 249.
- ^ Setton 1975, pp. 227, 798.
- ^ a b c d Lock 1995, p. 131.
- ^ Stathakopoulos 2018, p. 242.
- ^ a b c Setton 1975, p. 254.
- ^ Setton 1975, p. 256.
- ^ a b c d Fine 1994, p. 435.
- ^ Setton 1975, p. 258.
- ^ Fine 1994, pp. 434–435.
- ^ a b c d Setton 1975, p. 259.
- ^ a b Fine 1994, p. 431.
- ^ a b Setton 1975, p. 264.
- ^ a b c Setton 1975, p. 263.
- ^ Setton 1975, pp. 264–265.
- ^ Setton 1975, pp. 265–266.
- ^ Fine 1994, p. 499.
- ^ a b c d e Setton 1975, p. 266.
- ^ Fine 1994, pp. 499–500.
- ^ a b c Setton 1975, p. 267.
- ^ Setton 1975, pp. 267–268.
- ^ a b c d e Setton 1975, p. 268.
- ^ Setton, A History of the Crusades p. 271
Sources
- ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
- Lock, Peter (1995). The Franks in the Aegean, 1204–1500. Longman. ISBN 0-582-05140-1.
- ISBN 0-299-06670-3.
- Stathakopoulos, Dionysios (2018). "Sister, Widow, Consort, Bride: Four Latin Ladies in Greece (1330–1430)". In Lymberopoulou, Angeliki (ed.). Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669: Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?. Routledge. pp. 236–257. ISBN 978-0-8153-7267-7.