424 chronological table
Late summer: Baldwin returns to Constantinople with an army of
30,000.
1241 Baldwin signs two-year truce with Nicene Greeks.
1244 Truce extended for one year.
1245 June–July: first church council of Lyon. Baldwin ii is a guest of honour
to recruit military support.
1246 Spring: an Epirote army attacks the Duchy of Athens from Thessaly. It is
repulsed at Larissa with help from the Morea.
Early summer: death of Geoffrey ii de Villehardouin. He is succeeded
by his brother William, who lays siege to Monemvasia.
December: Nicene army captures Thessalonica from the Epirotes.
1247 Baldwin ii in western Europe.
1248 October: Baldwin returns to Constantinople.
William de Villehardouin takes Monemvasia and begins a castle-
building programme at Mistra and in the Mani.
1249 May: William de Villehardouin joins the Seventh Crusade.
1255–58 War of the Euboeote Succession; Villehardouin and the Genoese take
on the Venetians and the lords of central Greece who fear Villehardouin
ambitions.
1258 May: Villehardouin wins the battle of Karydi and ends the civil war on
Euboea.
Guy de la Roche is sent to Paris for judgement of his actions by Louis ix.
He is absent until 1260.
The Epirotes cede Corfu to Manfred of Sicily.
1259 Autumn: battle of Pelagonia in Macedonia. Villehardouin allied with
the Greeks of Epirus is decisively defeated and captured by the Nicene
Greeks.
1261 25 March: treaty of Nymphaeum gains Genoese naval support for the
Nicene Greeks.
25 July: Constantinople captured by the Greeks, bringing the effective
end of the Latin Empire.
Baldwin ii flees to Euboea and thence to Italy.
15 August: coronation of Michael viii Palaiologos in St Sophia.
Release of William de Villehardouin from captivity secured in return for
the cession of Maina, Mistra and Monemvasia.
1263 Death of Guy de la Roche. He is succeeded by his elder son John
(–1280).
1263–64 Greeks of Mistra attack Latin possessions in the Morea capturing
Geraki.