James Fadrique: Difference between revisions

| successor = [[Boniface Fadrique]]

| reign = 1355–1366

| issue = [[Louis Fadrique]]

| noble family = [[House of Barcelona|of Barcelona]]

'''James Fadrique''' was a [[Catalan Company|Catalan]] nobleman who became [[Count of Salona]], as well as lord of various other towns in [[Central Greece]] from ca. 1355 until his death in 1366.

 

James was a son of [[Alfonso Fadrique]], [[vicar-general]] of [[Duchy of Athens|Athens]] and [[Duchy of Neopatras|Neopatras]], and [[Marulla of Verona]].

 

As the [[Papacy]] supported the claims of [[Walter VI of Brienne]] on the Duchy of Athens, James (along with his father and his brother [[Peter Fadrique|Peter]]) was among the Catalan leaders excommunicated on 29 December 1335 by [[William Frangipani]], [[Latin Archbishop of Patras]].{{sfn|Setton|1975|pp=189–190}}{{sfn|Miller|1908|pp=276–277}} In accordance with their father's will, James succeeded in the domains of his older brother Peter—the [[County of Salona]], the baronies of [[Loidoriki]], [[Veteranitsa]], and perhaps [[Lamia (city)|Zetouni]]—after the latter died childless sometime before 1355. These possessions had been confiscated by the [[Crown of Aragon]] a few years before, but James was apparently successful in securing their return through the mediation of an embassy sent by the Catalan lords of Greece to King [[Frederick the Simple|Frederick III]].{{sfn|Setton|1975|pp=194, 197}}{{sfn|Miller|1908|p=279}} The same embassy petitioned to remove the incumbent vicar-general, [[Raymond Berardi]], and to install James in his stead, but it is unclear whether this request was granted. If James was made vicar-general, by 1359 he had lost the position to [[Gonsalvo Ximénez of Arenós]].{{sfn|Setton|1975|pp=197–198}}{{sfn|Miller|1908|pp=278–279}}

 

 

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* {{The Latins in the Levant}}

 

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