Chronological Table 427
1304 Genoese lease Chios from the Byzantines.
Pope Benedict xi warns that Byzantine territory may be seized in order
to mount effective opposition to the Turks.
1305 Marriage of Guy ii de la Roche and Mahaut de Hainaut, heiress of
Achaea.
1306 5 June: Charles ii removes Philip of Savoy from his role in the Morea.
June: Philip of Taranto makes his only visit to Greece to campaign
against Mistra.
1308 Early: death of Catherine de Courtenay, whose claim to Constantinople
passes to her daughter Catherine de Valois Courtenay.
5 October: death of Guy ii de la Roche who is succeeded by his cousin
Gauthier I de Brienne, the son of Isabelle de la Roche and Hugh de Brienne.
1309 6 May: death of Charles ii of Naples, succeeded by his son Robert the
Wise (–1343).
15 August: Hospitallers capture Rhodes and begin to move their head-
quarters from Cyprus.
1310 Gauthier de Brienne hires the Catalans to campaign in Thessaly. He
captures 30 towns but quarrels with them over pay.
11 November: Templar properties in Attica and Boeotia transferred to
Gauthier I de Brienne.
1311 15 March: battle of Halmyros; Catalans destroy a Frankish army sent
against them, kill Gauthier I and win control of the duchy. The battle
was witnessed by Marino Sanudo Torsello.
1312 22 January: Gauthier de Chatillon, constable of France, is appointed
bailli of briennist possessions in Greece for his young grandson
Gauthier ii (d. 1356).
1313 29 July: Philip of Taranto marries Catherine de Valois Courtenay and
acquires the claim to the Latin Empire by right of his wife.
29 July: Louis of Burgundy marries Mahaut de Hainaut and acquires
rights to the Principality of Achaea. His grandfather, Hugh V of
Burgundy, transfers his claim to Thessalonica to Louis.
1314 8 February: titular Latin patriarchate of Constantinople united with
the see of Negroponte.
February: marriage at Messina of Ferrando of Majorca and Isabelle de
Sabran daughter of Margaret de Villehardouin.
1315 Summer: Ferrando lands at Glarenza to claim the Principality of
Achaea in right of his wife.
1316 Early: Louis of Burgundy arrives in Achaea to claim the principality.
22 February: battle of Picotin; Louis defated by Ferrando with Catalan
help.