Principality of Achaïe

The principality of Achaïe or of Morée is a Seigneurie founded by Guillaume de Champlitte during the fourth Croisade (1205 - 1210). It initially extends on all the Peloponnese. It is initially a powerful State, but the defeat of Pélagonie (1259) causes its decline. Threatened by the Greeks, Guillaume II is constrained to accept the suzerainty of the kings angevins of Naples, who will use of Morée according to their interests, withdrawing it with his legitimate princes to entrust it to princes of their family. She returns in the Byzantine bosom by marriage in 1430, she is finally conquered by the Turkish S in 1460.

Company

The Latin lords of Morée, who need the support of the Greek great landowners, the archontes, let them develop their patrimonial goods.

The peasants of Morée, if they does not seem to pay more taxes than before 1204, see their notably reduced freedoms: they live within the framework of a seigniory on which they entirely depend. It are attached to their ground which they cannot leave without authorization seigneuriale, like also marrying or marrying their daughter. The lord has unpleasant and can yield it to a third. The peasant is not really any more free (it can be freed) but is not a serf (one cannot authoritatively sell his ground in the event of debt, it can have his pieces of furniture and of its animals, it can take other grounds with lease).

List Princes d' Achaïe

In 1460, the sultan Mehmed II seizes the Peloponnese, the princess Catherine and her husband the Thomas despot flees with Corfou, then settle in Rome.

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