A Frankish principality in the Peloponnese established after the Fourth Crusade, which became the most culturally vibrant of the Latin states in Greece, blending Western chivalric and Byzantine traditions, before being absorbed by the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea.
Absorbed into the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea by 1432, when Despot Thomas Palaiologos seized the remaining territories upon the death of the last prince, Centurione II Zaccaria, whose daughter Thomas had married after military conquest of the Achaean heartland in 1430.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Principality of Achaea — the shape you scrub through changes in 1205 · 1290.
Primary scholarly reference on the Latin principality of Achaea and Frankish Greece more broadly.
The contemporary verse chronicle of the founding of Frankish feudalism in the Morea, the principality's own narrative.