George I Ghisi

George I Ghisi (Italian: Giorgio Ghisi) was a Latin feudal lord in medieval Greece.

A son of Bartholomew I Ghisi, through his first marriage to a daughter of Guy II of Dramelay he was Baron of Chalandritsa in the Principality of Achaea. In 1292, he named also as castellan of Kalamata.[1] In that year, following a series of destructive raids in the Greek and Latin-held islands of the Aegean Sea, the Aragonese admiral Roger of Lauria led his fleet to anchor at Navarino. Fearful lest the Aragonese seize possession of lands in Achaea, or repeat their plundering raids, and with Prince Florent of Hainaut absent in Italy, George assembled two hundred knights at Androusa and attacked the Aragonese. In a brief but bloody combat, the Achaeans were defeated and George captured, only to be ransomed for 8,000 hyperpyra shortly after when the Aragonese fleet sailed to Glarentsa.[2][3]

In 1303, when his father died, he inherited the lordship of the Aegean islands of Tinos, Mykonos, with fiefs on Serifos and Keos.[1][4] Through his second wife, Alice dalle Carceri, he also became baron ("triarch") of Negroponte (Euboea). He was killed in the Battle of the Cephissus against the Catalan Company in 1311. His wife Alice died in 1313.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bon (1969), pp. 234–235, 459
  2. Bon (1969), p. 167
  3. Miller (1908), pp. 185–186
  4. 1 2 Setton (1975), p. 12

Sources

Preceded by
Guy of Dramelay
Baron of Chalandritsa
after 1285/86 – 1311
Unknown
Next known title holder:
Nicholas of Dramelay
Preceded by
Bartholomew I Ghisi
Lord of Tinos and Mykonos
1303–1311
Succeeded by
Bartholomew II Ghisi
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 04, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.