Demitre

Demitre was an Albanian count in the Catalan dominions in late-14th-century Thessaly, during the Frankokratia.

Mentioned as de Mitre and lo comte Mitra (a corruption of Dimitri/Demetrius^[1]) in contemporary sources, he was an Albanian chieftain based in southeastern Thessaly (Albanians had migrated to Thessaly from about 1320).^[2] He could rally 1,500 cavalrymen and was entitled to bear the royal banner of Aragon as a born vassal of Peter IV.^[3] Among the eighteen Catalan vassals of the area in 1380-1 he ranks second below the Count of Salona and above the Margrave of Bodonitsa.^[2] In a document of April 1381, he is listed among those greeted by Peter IV for their services against the Navarrese Company in 1379.^[2]

Sources

^ the name was originally interpreted as "count of Demetrias" by the publisher of the medieval documents, Antoni Rubió i Lluch
^ ^a ^b ^c Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1975). Athens in the Middle Ages. Variorum Reprints. p. 246. ISBN 9780902089846. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
^ Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W., eds. (1975). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 187. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.

[1] the name was originally interpreted as "count of Demetrias" by the publisher of the medieval documents, Antoni Rubió i Lluch

[Setton1975-2] Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1975). Athens in the Middle Ages. Variorum Reprints. p. 246. ISBN 9780902089846. Retrieved 14 October 2012.

[Setton1969-3] Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W., eds. (1975). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 187. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.

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