Barony of Akova

Coordinates: 37°43′N 21°57′E / 37.717°N 21.950°E / 37.717; 21.950
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Barony of Akova
Barony of the Principality of Achaea
1209–1320

Map of the Peloponnese with its principal locations during the late Middle Ages
CapitalAkova
Area
 • Coordinates37°43′N 21°57′E / 37.717°N 21.950°E / 37.717; 21.950
 • Type
Feudal lordship
Historical era
Byzantine reconquest
1320
 Succeeded by
Despotate of the Morea

The Barony of Akova was a medieval

Byzantines
in 1320.

History

The Barony of Akova was established c. 1209, after the conquest of the

Alpheios river, by the baronial family of de Rosières, of Burgundian origin.[1][3]

The only known baron of the barony's early period is

John of Saint Omer to promote her claims, the parliament found in favour of the Prince, who nevertheless ceded a third of the barony (8 fiefs) to Margaret and John, while the remainder, along with the fortress of Akova itself, became a fief of William's youngest daughter, Margaret.[5]

View of the ruins of the Akova Castle.

Margaret of Villehardouin augmented her domains in 1297 through the donation of a few fiefs and castles by her sister, Princess

Isabel of Sabran, to Ferdinand of Majorca, and passed her titles and claims to them. She then returned to Achaea, where she was imprisoned by the Angevin bailli Nicholas le Maure and died in captivity in February or March 1315. Ferdinand invaded Achaea and tried to claim the Principality from Louis of Burgundy, but fell in the Battle of Manolada in July 1316. In the wake of Margaret's death and the Majorcan invasion, the Barony of Akova was confiscated and added to the princely domain.[7][8] Five years later, in 1320, Akova along with the castles of Karytaina, Polyphengos, and Saint George in Skorta, fell to the Byzantines under Andronikos Asen.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b Miller 1921, pp. 71–72.
  2. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 104, 394.
  3. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 104, 393–394.
  4. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 104–105, 394.
  5. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 105, 147–148, 394.
  6. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 172, 394–395.
  7. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 190–193, 395.
  8. ^ Topping 1975, pp. 110–114.
  9. ^ Bon 1969, pp. 202, 395.
  10. ^ Topping 1975, p. 117.

Sources

  • Bon, Antoine (1969). La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe [The Frankish Morea. Historical, Topographic and Archaeological Studies on the Principality of Achaea] (in French). Paris: De Boccard.
    OCLC 869621129
    .
  • OCLC 457893641
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  • Topping, Peter (1975). "The Morea, 1364–1460". In
    ISBN 0-299-06670-3
    .
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