Chronological Table 425
1266 6 January: Charles of Anjou is crowned king of Sicily.
Baldwin ii grants title to the Kingdom of Thessalonica to Hugh iv of
Burgundy.
Venetians defeat the Genoese and Byzantines in a major naval battle off
Settepozzi (Spetses) off the Peloponnese. It is the biggest encounter in
the First Veneto-Genoese war (1256–70).
1267 26 February: Charles I defeats and kills Manfred of Sicily at Benevento.
Corfu passes into Angevin control.
24 May: treaty of Viterbo; William de Villehardouin becomes the vassal
of Charles of Anjou.
Marriage of Philip de Courtenay, son of Baldwin ii to Beatrice, daughter
of Charles of Anjou.
1268 25 August: William de Villehardouin serves in the Angevin army at
Tagliacozzo.
1270 Build up of Greek troops in the Morea.
June: Charles of Anjou receives oaths of fealty from Moreotes.
1271 Licario of Karystos begins piratical campaign against the Latins in the
Aegean (–1280).
28 May: marriage of Isabelle de Villehardouin to Charles’ eldest son
Philip of Anjou at Trani.
Summer: John of Athens with 300 men saves Neopatras from Byzantine
attack. John Doukas marries his daughter to John’s brother William.
1272 Charles sends 700 troops to the Morea.
1273 15 October: death of Baldwin ii at Bari, leaving his claims to the Latin
Empire to his son Philip.
1274 6 July: Second Council of Lyon agrees the union of the Greek and Latin
churches. Thereby Michael viii staves off an Angevin attack.
1275 Alum mines at Phocaea granted to the Genoese entrepreneur Manuele
Zaccaria.
1276 Licario captures most of Euboea at the battle of Vatonda.
Daphni mentioned as the only Cistercian house left in Greece.
1277 Philip of Anjou dies without issue.
Greeks capture Kalavryta in the Morea.
1278 1 May: death of William de Villehardouin. The Principality of Achaea
passes to Charles of Anjou.
1280 Death of John de la Roche, succeeded as duke of Athens by his brother,
William (–1287).
1281 3 July: treaty of Orvieto underpins a Venetian—Angevin alliance to
reconquer Constantinople.