Guy I de la Roche
Guy I de la Roche (1205–1263) was the
Duke of Athens (from 1225/34), the son and successor of the first duke Othon. After the conquest of Thebes
, Othon gave half the city in lordship to Guy.
Life
Guy's early life is obscure. Since the 18th century, historians assumed Guy to have been a nephew of the first
hyperpyra and in exchange for his own lands and claims in France.[1]
Guy also owned the whole of Thebes, for which along with Argos he owed homage to the prince of Achaea. Athens itself was independent of any other sovereign than the
Bela of St. Omer, the husband of his sister Bonne
.
When Prince
Michael VIII Palaeologus at the Battle of Pelagonia and taken prisoner. Soon after his arrival, news reached him of the fall of Constantinople to the Byzantines
.
Guy also served as the administrator of Achaea while William II was held prisoner by Michale VIII.[3]
Guy survived these serious ruptures to the Frankish states in Greece until his death in 1263 and was succeeded by his son John I.
Family
Guy married an unknown woman from the de Bruyeres family[citation needed] and had the following children:
- Duke of Athens(died 1280), succeeded his father as duke in 1263, unmarried and childless
- William (died 1287), duke of Athens, married Helena Angelina Komnene, by whom he had one son, Guy II
- John II of Beirut
- Marguerite (died after 1293), married Count Henry I of Vaudémont
- count of Brienne and Lecce
- Catherine, married Carlo di Lagonessa, seneschal of Sicily
Notes
- ^ a b Longnon 1973, pp. 67–69.
- ^ Longnon 1973, pp. 63–64, 65.
- ^ Nicolas Cheetham, Mediaeval Greece (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 94
References
- Longnon, Jean (1969) [1962]. "The Frankish States in Greece, 1204–1311". In ISBN 0-299-04844-6.
- Longnon, Jean (1973). "Les premiers ducs d'Athènes et leur famille". Journal des Savants (in French). 1 (1): 61–80. ISSN 1775-383X.