Polity Despotate of Argolid, Corinthia and Central Greece

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Was a short-living polity that emerged when Leo Sgouros, a Byzantine hereditary Lord, made himself independent from the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.

Establishment

  • October 1204: Leo Sgouros, taking advantage of the disruption caused by the Fourth Crusade, made himself independent and established the Despotate of Argolid, Corinthia and Central Greece.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1. Fourth Crusade

Was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem. However, the Western Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204 and partitioned the Byzantine Empire.

  • October 1204: Leo Sgouros, taking advantage of the disruption caused by the Fourth Crusade, made himself independent and established the Despotate of Argolid, Corinthia and Central Greece.

2. Conquests of Henry

Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.

  • September 1205: The battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras took place in the summer of 1205, in Messenia in the Morea peninsula, between the Frankish Crusaders and the local Byzantine Greeks, resulting in a victory of the Franks and the collapse of the local resistance.

Disestablishment

  • January 1206: Foundation of the Duchy of Athens.