Agnese Ghisi
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Agnese Ghisi (died before August 1282), was Regent of Karystos in ca. 1266-69. She was a sister of
Andrea Ghisi Andrea Ghisi was a Venetian nobleman, and the first Lord of Tinos and Mykonos. There are no sources about him until 1207 when he participated in the expedition organized by Marco Sanudo for the conquest of the Greek islands which, three years ...
and
Geremia Ghisi Geremia Ghisi was a Venice, Venetian nobleman who in , following the Fourth Crusade, captured the Greek islands of Skiathos, Skopelos, and Skyros and became their lord, while his brother Andrea Ghisi conquered the islands of Tinos and Mykonos. Thei ...
, and probably the wife of Othon de Cicon. She was a member of the
Ghisi family The House of Ghisi was a prominent Venetian nobility, Venetian noble family, originally from Padua or Aquileia. History Following the establishment of Frankokratia, Crusader states in Greece after the Fourth Crusade, the Ghisi became an import ...
. She had a son, Guidotto, and a daughter, Anfelise. She became regent of Karystos for her son ca. 1266-69 after the death of her husband; the city was however captured by
Licario Licario, called Ikarios () by the Greek chroniclers, was a Byzantine admiral of Italian origin in the 13th century. At odds with the Latin barons (the "triarchs") of his native Euboea, he entered the service of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII ...
ca. 1277 and Guidotto taken prisoner. She died before August 18, 1282, when she is mentioned as defunct in her nephew's testament.


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