426 chronological table
1282 30 March: the Sicilian Vespers aborts Angevin plans to attack
Constantinople by expelling Angevin garrisons from Sicily and begin-
ning war for the possession of the island (–1302).
11 December: death of Michael viii. His son Andronikos ii repeals the
Church union of Lyon.
1283–99 Revolt against the Venetians in Crete, led by the Kallergis family.
1284 Marriage of Andronikos ii and Yolande of Montferrat with whom came
the Latin claim to Thessalonica.
1285 7 January: death of Charles of Anjou.
1287 Death of William de la Roche, succeeded by his son Guy ii (Guillot)
(–1308) under the guardianship of his mother Helena Komnene and
his uncle Hugh de Brienne.
1288 22 April: death of Manuele Zaccaria; the alum concession passes to his
brother Benedetto.
1289 16 September: Florent of Hainaut marries Isabelle de Villehardouin
and becomes ruler of Achaea.
1294–99 Second Veneto-Genoese war marked by naval actions off Lajazzo,
Candia, and Modon and attacks on the Genoese quarter of Galata and
the alum works at Phocaea (1296).
1294 24 June: Guy of Athens knighted by Boniface of Verona.
August: Charles ii grants suzerainty of Achaea to his son Philip of Taranto.
Catherine de Courtenay, the titular Latin empress of Constantinople
confirms the treaty of Viterbo (1267).
1297 23 January: death of Florent of Hainaut.
1300 Turks capture Smyrna from the Genoese.
1301 18 January: marriage of Catherine de Courtenay and Charles of Valois,
the brother of Philip iv of France.
12 February: Philip of Savoy marries Isabelle de Villehardouin and
rules Achaea in the name of Charles ii.
Death of Philip de Courtenay; his title to the Latin Empire passes to his
daughter Catherine.
1302 27 July: battle of Bapheon in Bithynia is the first encounter between
Byzantine and Ottoman forces.
Genoese fortify Galata.
31 August: peace of Caltabellota ends the Angevin-Aragonese war over
Sicily.
1303 Turkish raids on the Aegean islands begin and become a permanent
feature of the next two centuries.
September: Catalan Company of mercenaries recruited from Sicily to
fight against the Turks in Bithynia for the Byzantines.