Just checking on some lowly wiki article. The battle of Pelagonia was fought as a serious prelude to the 1261 liberation of Constantinople. The main sides were the Empire of Nicaea (army led by the current Sebastocrator, not the actual Emperor Palaiologos), and The principality of Achaea. Allies of the latter were Epiros (but they left prior to the actual battle) and the dutchy of Athens.
The article mentions some issue with 300 german mercenaries on the side of the Nicaean Empire, who were supposedly led by a 'duke of Carinthia'. The problem is that those troops died (it seems from a charge by 400 Sicilean knights), and also their duke, but Carinthia seems to have kept the same leaderhead up to a few years later.
Btw Carinthia is some kind of medieval hell-hole in lower Austria of that time
Can you help in regards to whether this duke was named as being part of the Nicaean forces in Pelagonia, and if indeed there is some issue there with the timeline in Carinthia?
The article from wiki is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pelagonia
The article mentions some issue with 300 german mercenaries on the side of the Nicaean Empire, who were supposedly led by a 'duke of Carinthia'. The problem is that those troops died (it seems from a charge by 400 Sicilean knights), and also their duke, but Carinthia seems to have kept the same leaderhead up to a few years later.
Btw Carinthia is some kind of medieval hell-hole in lower Austria of that time
Can you help in regards to whether this duke was named as being part of the Nicaean forces in Pelagonia, and if indeed there is some issue there with the timeline in Carinthia?
The article from wiki is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pelagonia
wikinthia said:In the Chronicle of Morea, there is a problem with the document's claim that the "Duke of Carinthia" was present at the battle. The duke at the time was Ulrich III of Carinthia, but he ruled for many years after 1259, and was probably not at the battle; the writer of the Chronicle may have invented a fictitious duke as a counterbalance to William.