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Matthew Orsini
Matthew Orsini was the founder of the Orsini county palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea. Of an Apulian family, he held the islands by about 1195 and established a hereditary lordship, placing himself in turn under the protection of the Pope, Venice and the Principality of Achaea. His family ruled the islands until 1324.
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