Guglielmo II da Verona

Guglielmo II da Verona (died 1273/1275) was a Lombard noble from the triarchy of Negroponte (Euboea), considered by earlier historians as a triarch and a marshal of the principality of Achaea in Frankish Greece.

He was the second[1] son of Guglielmo I da Verona, ruler of the southern third ("triarchy") of Euboea.[2]

According to earlier historians following K. Hopf, he succeeded to this position upon his father's death in 1263/6. He was also thought to have become Baron of Passavant and marshal in the Principality of Achaea from an hypothetical marriage to Margaret de Neuilly,[3] because he was improperly called "marshal" in Sanudo's Istoria di Romania.[4] These views have been challenged by Raymond-Joseph Loenertz in the 1960s.

He married Catherine, a niece of William II of Villehardouin,[5] with whom he had no known child.

Guglielmo was killed in the Battle of Demetrias, which took place either in 1273 or in 1275 in the area of modern Volos.[6][7]

  1. ^ the first, according to K. Hopf despite his primary source, Marino Sanudo
  2. ^ Loenertz, p 162
  3. ^ Bury (1886), pp. 333, 350
  4. ^ It was in fact his wife who became "marshaless" through her second marriage with John of Saint Omer (Loenertz p 164 and 170)
  5. ^ Loenertz p 170
  6. ^ Bury (1886), pp. 337–338, 350
  7. ^ Geanakoplos (1959), p. 284