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William de Champlitte returns to France.
December 15: Morosini publicly retracts pledge over Venetian appoint-
ments to St Sophia made in June 1205.
1209 Early: William de Champlitte’s nephew dies before he can claim the
princedom of Achaea. Geoffrey de Villehardouin assumes lordship of
the Morea.
March: Venetian suzerainty over Euboea acknowledged by the triarchs.
1–2 May: Parliament of Ravennika near Lamia attended by the emperor
and 60 barons.
June: treaty of Sapienza between Villehardouin and the Venetians
defines the boundaries of Modon and Coron.
1210 February: Corinth falls to Villehardouin.
4 March: Corinthian Church reorganised on Latin lines.
22 March: Villehardouin first addressed as “Princeps Achaiae” in a
papal letter.
2 May: second Parliament of Ravennika sought to regulate relations
between Church and barons. Tithes and mortmain remain in dispute.
1211 Venetians begin the conquest and colonisation of Crete.
June/July: Morosini dies at Thessalonica. The Latin Patriarchate
remains vacant until November 1215.
1212 Early: Argos falls to the Franks. Treasures from the Corinthian church
found there develops into a dispute with the Church.
June: Cistercians and Premonstratensians mentioned for the first time
in Greece.
September: papal attempts to oversee the election of a new Latin
patriarch.
1213 The Hagiostephanites family revolt against the Venetians in Crete. The
first of several 13th-century Cretan rebellions.
The Epirotes recapture Durazzo from the Venetians.
1214 January: Athonite monasteries placed under papal protection.
1215 The Epirote Greeks capture Corfu, Demetrias and Domokos.
11–30 November: Fourth Lateran Council.
11 November: consecration of Gervais, bishop of Heracleia Pontika as
the second Latin patriarch of Constantinople.
Gervase excommunicates Geoffrey de Villehardouin and Otto de la
Roche for ignoring the Concordat of Ravennika of 1210.
1216 11 June: death of the Emperor Henry at Thessalonica.
16 July: death of Pope Innocent iii.
24 July: coronation of Pope Honorius iii.
Death of Ravano dalle Carceri, lord of Euboea.