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Francis or Francesco I Acciaioli was the son of
Francis or Francesco I Acciaioli was the son of Nerio II Acciaioli
Nerio II Acciaioli (1416–1451) was the Duke of Athens on two separate occasions from 1435 to 1439 and again from 1441 to 1451.
He was a member of the Acciaioli family of Florence, the son of Francesco Lord of Sykaminon, who was cousin to Anton ...
by his second wife Chiara Zorzi Chiara Zorzi or Giorgio, also Clara or Claire (died 1454), was duchess consort of Athens by marriage to Nerio II Acciaioli, Duke of Athens, and regent of Athens during the minority of her son Francesco I from 1451 until 1454.
Life
She was the dau ...
. He succeeded on his father's death in 1451 to the Duchy of Athens
The Duchy of Athens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, ''Doukaton Athinon''; Catalan: ''Ducat d'Atenes'') was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade as part of the ...
under his mother's regency.
His mother married the Venetian Bartolomeo Contarini (1453). However, Mehmet II
Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...
, the Ottoman sultan
The sultans of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922. At its hei ...
, intervened at the insistence of the people on the behalf of the young duke Francis and summoned Bartolommeo and Chiara to his court at Adrianople. Another Acciaioli
The Acciaioli, Acciaiuoli, Accioly, Acciajuoli or Acioli was an important family of Florence.
Family name is also written Acciaioli, Acciainoli, or Accioly, Accioli, Acioli and Acyoly in Portugal and Brazil, where there are branches of it. Descent ...
, Francesco II Francesco II may refer to:
* Francesco II Ordelaffi (1300–1386)
* Francesco II of Lesbos (c. 1365 – 1403/1404)
* Francesco II Acciaioli (died 1460), last Duke of Athens
* Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1466–1519), ruler of the Ita ...
, was sent to Athens as a Turkish client duke. Evidently, the citizenry had mistrusted the two lovers influence over the young duke, for whose safety they may have feared. The young Francesco I remained at the court of the Ottoman sultan.
References
* Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) ''A History of the Crusades: Volume III — The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries''. Harry W. Hazard, editor. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1975. *Setton, Kenneth M. ''Catalan Domination of Athens 1311–1380''. Revised edition. Variorum: London, 1975. Acciaioli family Dukes of Athens 15th-century monarchs in Europe 15th-century Italian nobility {{Italy-noble-stub