Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Negroponte
drawn on the map 1206–1209
The island of Euboea (Negroponte) was, after 1205, divided by Boniface of Montferrat into three baronies ruled by interrelated Lombard/Veronese barons called terzieri or triarchs — the northern third (Oreos), southern third (Karystos), and central third (Chalkis/Clissura); the original barons (1205) were Ravano dalle Carceri, Giberto, and Pecoraro da Mercanuovo, with Chalkis the common capital (the "città de' Lombardi").
- Shown on the map
- 1206–1209
- Peak area
- 2k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The island of Euboea (Negroponte) was, after 1205, divided by Boniface of Montferrat into three baronies ruled by interrelated Lombard/Veronese barons called terzieri or triarchs — the northern third (Oreos), southern third (Karystos), and central third (Chalkis/Clissura); the original barons (1205) were Ravano dalle Carceri, Giberto, and Pecoraro da Mercanuovo, with Chalkis the common capital (the "città de' Lombardi"). By 1209 Ravano dalle Carceri made himself sole lord (dominus insulae Nigropontis) and balanced overlordship between Venice (March 1209, granting commercial privileges) and the Latin Emperor Henry (May 1209). After his death (1216) the resident Venetian bailo at Chalkis became the effective arbiter, splitting the baronies into six sestieri; the death of Carintana dalle Carceri (1255) triggered the War of the Euboeote Succession, and from c. 1390 the island became a full Venetian colony. The Ottoman conquest came with the Siege of Negroponte (14 June – 12 July 1470), when Sultan Mehmed II in person took Chalkis by storm (the Venetian commander Paolo Erizzo among the dead), incorporating it as the Ottoman Sanjak of Eğriboz — one of Venice's gravest losses in the Aegean.
Common questions
- What was Negroponte?
- The island of Euboea (Negroponte) was, after 1205, divided by Boniface of Montferrat into three baronies ruled by interrelated Lombard/Veronese barons called terzieri or triarchs — the northern third (Oreos), southern third (Karystos), and central third (Chalkis/Clissura); the original barons (1205) were Ravano dalle Carceri, Giberto, and Pecoraro da Mercanuovo, with Chalkis the common capital (the "città de' Lombardi").
- When is Negroponte shown on the map?
- The border data draws Negroponte 1206–1209. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was Negroponte?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Negroponte covered about 2,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Negroponte en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroponte
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