Marulla of Verona or Maria of Verona (
Italian
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: ''Marulla da Verona''; died 1326), was Lady of
Karystos
Karystos () or Carystus is a small coastal town on the Greek island of Euboea. It has about 5,000 inhabitants (12,000 in the municipality). It lies 129 km south of Chalkis. From Athens it is accessible by ferry via Marmari from the port of ...
in
Frankish Greece
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in 1318–1326.
She was the daughter of
Boniface of Verona
Boniface of Verona (, died late 1317 or early 1318) was a Lombard Crusader lord in Frankish Greece during the late 13th and early 14th century. A third son from a junior branch of his family, he sold his castle to equip himself as a knight, bec ...
, Lord of Karystos, and one of the major barons of the
Duchy of Athens
The Duchy of Athens (Greek language, Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, ''Doukaton Athinon''; Catalan language, Catalan: ''Ducat d'Atenes'') was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during ...
.
She married
Alfonso Fadrique
Don Alfonso Fadrique (; ; died 1338) was the eldest and illegitimate son of Frederick II of Sicily. He served as vicar generalHe is referred to with the magniloquent title ''magnificus dominus, dominus Alfonsus, excellentissimi domini, domini Fe ...
, the illegitimate son of
Frederick II of Sicily. She left five sons and two daughters:
*Simona, who wed
George II Ghisi
*
Pedro
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,
Count of Salona from 1338 to 1355
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James
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, Count of Salona from 1355 to 1365
*William Fadrique, lord of
Livadeia
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*
Boniface
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, lord of
Aigina
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Administration
Mun ...
, Piada and Karystos
*
John
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, lord of Salamina, married Marulla Zaccaria
References
Sources
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*{{setton-A History of the Crusades, volume=3
*Setton, Kenneth M. ''Catalan Domination of Athens 1311–1380''. Revised edition. Variorum: London, 1975.
1326 deaths
Family of Verona
Lords of Karystos
Women from the Duchy of Athens
14th-century women rulers