George I Ghisi ( it, Giorgio Ghisi) (died 15 March 1311) was a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

feudal lord in medieval

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. A son of

Bartholomew I Ghisi Bartholomew I Ghisi ( it, Bartolommeo Ghisi; died 1303) was the Venetian hereditary lord of the islands of Tenos and Mykonos in the Cyclades in Frankish Greece. He was the son of the conqueror of these islands, Andrea Ghisi, and lived to a very adv ...

, through his first marriage to a daughter of Guy II of Dramelay he was

Baron of Chalandritsa The Barony of Chalandritsa was a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located in the northern Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, and centred on the town of Chalandritsa ( el, Χαλανδρίτσα, links=no; french: Calandrice, C ...

in the

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. In 1292, he was also named as

castellan A castellan is the title used in Medieval Europe for an appointed official, a governor of a castle and its surrounding territory referred to as the castellany. The title of ''governor'' is retained in the English prison system, as a remnant o ...

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.Bon (1969), pp. 234–235, 459 In that year, following a series of destructive raids in the Greek and Latin-held islands of the

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, the Aragonese admiral

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led his fleet to anchor at

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. Fearful lest the Aragonese seize possession of lands in Achaea, or repeat their plundering raids, and with Prince

Florent of Hainaut Florent of Hainaut (also ''Floris'' or ''Florence''; Hainaut, also spelled "Hainault") (c. 1255 – 23 January 1297) was Prince of Achaea from 1289 to his death, in right of his wife, Isabella of Villehardouin. He was the son of John I of Avesnes ...

absent in Italy, George assembled two hundred knights at

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and attacked the Aragonese. In a brief but bloody combat, the Achaeans were defeated and George captured, only to be ransomed for 8,000 ''

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'' shortly after when the Aragonese fleet sailed to

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. In 1303, when his father died, he inherited the lordship of the Aegean islands of

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, with fiefs on

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and

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.Setton (1975), p. 12 Through his second wife, Alice dalle Carceri, he also became triarch of Negroponte (

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). He was killed in the

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against the

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in 1311. According to A. Bon, his wife Alice died in 1313.Bon (1969), pp. 235, without mention of a source; Alice is however described in the same book as regent for her son till 1314 p.703; Loenertz does not cite any document about the death of Alice : since she is only mentioned in a document dated ca. 1312-1313 and accordingly cited as "Alix, tercière de Negrepont 1310-1313" in Karl Hopf's influential genealogical tables ("Chroniques gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues", p.479), Bon may have been mistaken.

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