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Seal of wife Elisabeth.

Geoffrey I of Villehardouin (French: Geoffroi Ier de Villehardouin) (c. 1169 – c. 1229) was a French knight from the County of Champagne who joined the Fourth Crusade.[1][2][3][4] He participated in the conquest of the Peloponnese and became the second prince of Achaea (1209/1210–c. 1229).[2]

Under his reign, the Principality of Achaea became the direct vassal of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.[5] He extended the borders of his principality.[6]

Early years and the Fourth Crusade

Geoffrey was the eldest son of Céline of Briel and John of Villehardouin.[2] He married one Elisabeth, who may be Elisabeth of Chappes,[7] a scion of a fellow crusader family, an identification rejected by Longnon.[8]

Conquest of the Peloponnese

The Peloponnese in the Middle Ages

William of Champlitte was prince of Achaea (1205–1209) under the suzerainty of the king of Thessalonica.[9][10] Geoffrey received Kalamata and Messenia as a fief from the new prince.[10]

Reign in Achaea

In 1208 William I of Achaea sought to claim an inheritance his brother had left to him.[5][11] However, both the first prince of Achaea and his nephew died.[12]

The Chronicle of the Morea narrates that Geoffrey only became prince of Achaea some time later.[13]

The medieval castle on Larissa Hill in Argos

Next the papal legate Cardinal Giovanni Colonna in 1218 excommunicated Geoffrey I.[14] Upon the request of the local high clergy, it was confirmed during 1219.[15]

Geoffrey died sometime between 1228 and 1230.[4] He was buried in the Church of St James in Andravida.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Runciman 1951, p. 126.
  2. ^ a b c Evergates 2007, p. 246.
  3. ^ Setton 1976, p. 24.
  4. ^ a b Longnon 1969, p. 242.
  5. ^ a b Longnon 1969, p. 239.
  6. ^ Longnon 1969, p. 240
  7. ^ Evergates 2007, p. 263.
  8. ^ Jean Longnon, Les compagnons de Villehardouin (1978), p. 36
  9. ^ Longnon 1969, p. 237.
  10. ^ a b Fine 1994, p. 70.
  11. ^ Setton 1976, p. 33.
  12. ^ Setton 1976, pp. 33-34.
  13. ^ Fine 1994, p. 71.
  14. ^ Setton 1976, pp. 47-48.
  15. ^ Setton 1976, p. 47.

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Regnal titles
Preceded by Prince of Achaea
1209/1210 – c. 1229
Succeeded by

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