Jacqueline de la Roche

Jacqueline de la Roche was the last heiress of the De la Roche family which had ruled the Duchy of Athens from 1204 to 1308. She was the daughter and heiress of Rainald de la Roche. She was the baroness of Veligosti and Damala in her own right from that latter date to 1327, when she married Martino Zaccaria, Lord of Chios, as his second wife.

When Martino was captured and carted off to Constantinople by Andronicus III Palaeologus in 1330, Jacqueline was allowed to go free with her children "and all they could carry." [Miller, 50.] She may have been the mother of Bartolommeo, Margrave of Bodonitsa, and was probably the mother of Centurione I, Lord of Arcadia.

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*Miller, William. " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4269%281911%2931%3C42%3ATZOPAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C The Zaccaria of Phocaea and Chios (1275-1329).] " "The Journal of Hellenic Studies", Vol. 31. (1911), pp. 42-55.
*Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) "A History of the Crusades: Volume III — The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". Harry W. Hazard, editor. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1975.
*Setton, Kenneth M. "Catalan Domination of Athens 1311–1380". Revised edition. Variorum: London, 1975.