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Mediaeval Fortresses of the North-Western Peloponnesus1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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The Castle of Karytaena built by Hugues Bruyères de Champagne and his son Geoffrey in 1254. The Barony was one of the twelve original fiefs of the Morea, and from its position, guarding the fertile plain of Megalopolis against the inroads of the wild highlanders of Skortá, the castle must have been of the greatest importance. By the year 1278 the family of Bruyères was extinct in the male line and the Barony had passed to the house of Brienne. In the will of the Princess Isabelle of Achaia, in 1311, the castle of Karytaena, along with Beauvoir and Beauregard in Elis, is assigned as dowry to her younger daughter Marguerite; it was, however, captured by the Greeks in 1320. After Mohammed II.'s invasion of the Morea in 1458 we find Karytaena included in the list of towns which opened their gates to the Venetians under Bertholdo d' Este. There still remains, built into the wall of the Panagia, a Sicilian coat of arms of the seventeenth century (Plate VIII.). The fortress was garrisoned by the Turks and later was held by Kolokotrones in the War of Independence.
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See B.S.A. xii. pp. 259–276.
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Page 268 note 2 I have particularly to thank Mr. W. Miller for help in the historical notes. He has not only made valuable suggestions, but has very kindly permitted me to read in proof his forthcoming book The Latins in the Levant, and to take from it much material, without which many of the architectural problems would have remained unsolved.
Page 275 note 1 See below, p. 277.
Page 275 note 2 Chronicle of the Morea, 11. 2096–2437.
Page 275 note 3 Ibid. 11. 2631–57.
Page 276 note 1 Sàthas, , Μνημεία Ἑλληνικης Ἱστοριάς i. p. xxxiii.Google Scholar
Page 276 note 2 Libro de los Fechtos et Conquistas del Principado de la Morea; see Miller, op. cit. p. 254.
Page 276 note 3 Schlumberger, Numismatique, 31.
Page 276 note 4 Phranzês, pp. 122–139, 144–158; Θρῆνος τῆς Κονσταντινουπόλεως, II. 52–62.
Page 277 note 1 B.S.A. xii p. 271, and Plate III.
Page 281 note 1 B.S.A. xii. 265-9.
Page 281 note 2 The Flemish house of Nivelles, which might conceivably have furnished an ancestor to the barons of Geraki, bore argent a cross gules.
Page 282 note 1 Whether simply lozengy, i.e. with the lozenges perpendicular, or lozengy in bend, the lozenges slanting obliquely downward from the shield's right top corner, as at Geraki, is not very material. The Geraki shield would be blazoned Lozengy in bend. . . a bend. . . The vagaries of armorial design beyond its normal western and northern limits, as to a lesser degree within them, must be acknowledged by every armorist.
Page 282 note 2 I. PI. X. No. 150, and PI. IX. No. 137, pp. 45-47, 1891.
Page 282 note 3 See p. 1 of ihe pedigree in Drummond's Noble British Families, vol. ii. They include the form ‘NeuvilhVr.’
Page 282 note 4 The citation of the Angevin architectural details in Altamura is otherwise important, however, in view of the fact that until the seventeenth century the Greeks had three churches in that city. See Schulz's Denkmäler, i. 1860, and Serena in Rassegna Pugliese, xix. 1902.
Page 283 note 1 The great portal dates from his reign. See Schulz, etc., loc. cit.
Page 283 note 2 Some of the materials for the question are to be found in Artin Pasha's Contribution à l' ėtude du blason en Orient, 1902.
Page 283 note 3 Argote de Molina, Nobleza del Andaluzia, 1588.
Page 283 note 4 Some examples of arms attributed to Joshua are : three bulls' heads ; a lion's head ; the sun ; the sun in glory, winged and darting thunderbolts, etc.