Event Conquests of Charles I Tocco

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Expansion during the rule of Charles I Tocco in the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos.

Chronology

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  • January 1401: Territorial evolution of the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos.
  • January 1417: Despotate of Arta conquered by County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos.
  • January 1412: When Esau, the ruler of Epirus, died in February 1411, the rulers of the country refused to recognize his young son Giorgio as heir. Both went into exile. Carlo I Tocco, Count Palatine of Kephalonia, was elected prince.
  • January 1409: In 1407-1408, Leonardo III Tocco, the ruler of the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, seized and plundered the fortress of Glarentza in the northwestern Morea. Glarentza was a strategic stronghold in the region, and its capture was a significant event in the power struggles of the time.
  • January 1396: The duke Carlo Tocco married Francesca, daughter of the Duke of Athens Nerio I Acciaioli, which gave him a claim on Corinth and Megara. After Nerio's death, he seized these territories in 1395.
  • January 1408: In 1407-1408, Leonardo III Tocco, the ruler of the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, seized and plundered the fortress of Glarentza in the northwestern Morea.
  • January 1408: Carlo I Tocco, the hereditary Count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, attacked Paul Shpata, lord of Angelokastro in Aetolia.

Selected Sources

  • Osswald, B. (2011): L'Epire du treizième au quinzième siècle: autonomie et hétérogénéité d'une région balkanique, Toulouse (France), p. 263
  • Osswald, B. (2011): L'Epire du treizième au quinzième siècle: autonomie et hétérogénéité d'une région balkanique, Toulouse (France), pp. 223-234
  • Zachariadou, E. (1988): Marginalia on the History of Epirus and Albania (1380-1418), Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 78, pp. 195-210