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Otho de la Roche

d. c. 1234 · 13th century · Also known as Othon de la Roche

Otho de la Roche was a Burgundian knight of the Fourth Crusade who received Athens and Thebes from Boniface of Montferrat in 1205 and became the first Latin lord of Athens. He also held Argos and Nauplia as a fief of the Principality of Achaea. Around 1225 he returned to Burgundy, leaving his Greek lands to his nephew Guy I de la Roche.

Otho de la Roche
Image: Original design: unknown 13th-century artist; Sketch: Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 2 state histories

Duchy of AthensLordship of Argos and Nauplia

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