Coat of Arms of the Duchy of Neopatras

The Duchy of Neopatria or Neopatras was one of the Crusader States set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade. The Crusader states were a number of mostly 12th- and 13th-century feudal states created by Western European Crusaders in Asia Minor, Greece and Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία The Fourth Crusade (1202&ndash1204 was originally designed to conquer Muslim Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. It was situated in Central Greece, centered around the city of Neai Patrai (modern Ypati) in the Spercheios valley, west of Lamia. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Ypati (Υπάτη is a municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Population 6855 (2001 The Spercheios (Greek Σπερχειός Latin Spercheus) is a river in Thessaly, Greece. Lamia (Λαμία is a city in central Greece. It is a site of Archaeological excavation (a castle dating from the pre-classical years reconstructed in the

In 1318-1319 the Almogavares of the Catalan Company, after having conquered most of the Duchy of Athens, expanded into the territories of the Despotate of Epirus in southern Thessaly, under Alfonso Frederick, the infante of the Kingdom of Sicily. The Almogavars ( Aragonese: Almogabars, Catalan: Almogàvers, Spanish: Almogávares, from Arabic: Al-Mugavari The Catalan Company of the East ( Catalan Companyia Catalana d'Orient) officially the Company of the Army of the Franks in Romania The Duchy of Athens was one of the Crusader States set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade, The Principality of Epirus can also refer to the pashalik of Ali Pasha The Despotate or Principality of Epirus (Δεσποτάτο της Thessalia redirects here For the Butterfly Genus, see Thessalia (butterfly. Don Alfonso Fadrique ( English: Alfonso Frederick, Catalan: N'Anfós Frederic d'Aragó; died 1338 was the eldest and illegitimate son of The Kingdom of Sicily (Regnum Siciliae or Sicilie Regno di Sicilia, commonly abbreviated Regno) was a state that existed in the south of Italy The new territories were created a duchy and united with the Duchy of Athens. The Duchy was divided into the captaincies of Siderocastron, Neopatria, and Salona (modern Amfissa). Amfissa ( Greek: Άμφισσα ˈaɱfisa is a municipality and the capital town of the prefecture of Phocis, in Greece.

Part of the Duchy's possessions in Thessaly was conquered by the Serbs of Stefan Dusan in 1337. Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( c.1308 – 20 December 1355) called Silni ("the Mighty" was the King of Serbia (from In 1377, the title of Duke of Neopatria was assumed by Peter IV of Aragon. Peter IV (also known as Pedro or Pere 5 September 1319, Balaguer – 5 January 1387) called the Ceremonious ( el Ceremonioso It was preserved among the subsidiary titles of his successors, and is still included in the full title of the Spanish monarchs. This is a list of Spanish Monarchs &mdashthat is rulers of the country of Spain in the modern sense of the word

The attacks of the Byzantine Empire progressively diminished the territory of the duchy until what was left of it fell completely into the hands of the Republic of Florence in 1390. Roman origins Florence was founded in 59 BCE as a settlement for former soldiers and was named Florentia, allotted by Julius Caesar to his veterans in

Eccelesiastically, Neopatria largely corresponded to the Archdiocese of Neopatras (l'arquebisbat de la pàtria) which had one suffragan: Zeitounion. Lamia (Λαμία is a city in central Greece. It is a site of Archaeological excavation (a castle dating from the pre-classical years reconstructed in the Among the Catalan archbishops was Ferrer d'Abella, who tried to have himself transferred to a west European see. Ferrer d'Abella (or de Apilia) was a Catalan Dominican friar diplomat and scholar of the fourteenth century