Lordship of Salona

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 de Stromoncourt (or d'Autremoncourt), 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 ca. 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, who claimed the title of Count of Salona. In 1380 it fell to the Navarrese Company. 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 ca. 1402. The Despot Theodore I Palaiologos sold Salona to the Knights Hospitaller in 1404, but it fell again to the Ottomans in 1410.

Rulers

d'Autremoncourt/de Stromoncourt family

• Thomas I de Stromoncourt (r. 1205–1210)
• Thomas II de Stromoncourt (r. 1212–1258)
• William de Stromoncourt, son of Thomas II
• Thomas III de Stromoncourt (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)
• Pedro Fadrique (r. 1338–1350), eldest son of Alfonso
• Jaime Fadrique (r. ca. 1355–1365), second son of Alfonso, his rule was largely nominal
• Luis Fadrique (r. 1365–1380), son of Jaime

Navarrese Conquest (1380)

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

First Ottoman conquest (1394 – ca. 1402/1403)

Byzantine Moreot conquest (1402/1403–1404)

Knights Hospitaller (1404–1410)

Second Ottoman conquest

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 978-0472082605, http://books.google.com/books?id=Hh0Bu8C66TsC 
• 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. http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/projects/fragokratia/en/webpages/salona_gen.html. Retrieved 22-01-2011.