Lordship_of_Phocaea

Lordship of Phocaea

Lordship of Phocaea

Byzantine lordship


The Lordship of Phocaea (Greek: Ηγεμονία της Φώκαιας) was founded after in 1275, when the Genoese nobleman Manuele Zaccaria received the twin towns of Old Phocaea and New Phocaea as a fief from the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos. The Zaccaria family amassed a considerable fortune from their properties there, especially the rich alum mines. The Zaccaria held the lordship until 1340, when it was repossessed by the Byzantines under Andronikos III Palaiologos.

Lords of Old and New Phocaea

Governors of Old and New Phocaea

  • 1302–1307 Tedisio Zaccaria
  • 1307 Nicolino Zaccaria
  • 1307–1314 Andriolo Cattaneo
  • 1329 Arrigo Tartaro

Sources

  • Ανέκδοτα νομίσματα και μολυβδόβουλλα των κατά τους μέσους αιώνας Δυναστών της Ελλάδος / υπό Παύλου Λάμπρου, Εν Αθήναις : Εκ του Τυπογραφείου αδελφών Πέρρη, 1880, pages 66–73
  • Miller, William (1921). "The Zaccaria of Phocaea and Chios (1275-1329)". Essays on the Latin Orient. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 283–298. OCLC 457893641.



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