Guy Pallavicini
Guido Pallavicini († 1237 ) was an Italian crusaders of the Fourth Crusade and the first Margrave of Boudonitza one of the first Latin feudal lords of Greece.
Pallavicini came from a noble family from the region around Parma, which traced its lineage to the Obertenghi. He is likely to have during the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) belonged to the Lombard wake of Marquis Boniface of Montferrat, although he was not mentioned in the crusade course. He is first mentioned in autumn 1204, when he was appointed on the march to Greece by Boniface of Montferrat, who had risen to the king of Thessaloniki, the Lords of Boudonitza and commissioned to do with securing the strategically important bottleneck of Thermopylae. Together with his brother Rubino he is called in the siege of Akrokorinth, where the Byzantine Archon Leon Sgouros had entrenched. After the death of Boniface 1207 Pallavicini was also involved in the revolt against the child king Demetrius and his mother like any other Lombards. Against the Emperor Henry he entrenched himself with most of the rebels in Kadmeia of Thebes but had to surrender to the emperor the end of May 1209. In the course of a general compensation Pallavicini was able to keep his fief. He took part in May 1210 on the second Parliament of Ravennika, where he worked with the Latin Roman Church signed the Concordat with.
In 1221, Pallavicini named as bailli of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, which was captured in 1224 by the Byzantine despot of Epirus, Theodore I. Angelos. With the support of his Latin neighbors and the Prince of Achaia to Pallavicini could keep in Boudonitza against Theodoros Angelos. An attempt reconquest of Thessaloniki with the help of Margrave William VI. of Montferrat but failed in the same year. Pallavicinis fief now represented the northernmost Latin Feudalterritorium in Greece and now assumed the role of a classical limit mark. Of his Greek subjects he was called " Marchesopoulo ". While north and west bordered the hostile Greek Byzantine Epirus and Thessaloniki, the allied Latin dominions of Athens and Euboea ( Negroponte ) it was adjacent to the south and east.
Guido Pallavicini laid down his will on May 2, 1237 and died probably shortly thereafter, one of the last knights of the Fourth Crusade. He was married to a lady Sybilla, which was probably related to the men of Athens, I. Guido de la Roche. With her he had three children:
- About Tino Pallavicini († 1264 ), Margrave of Boudonitza
- Isabella Pallavicini († 1286), Marchioness of Boudonitza
- Mabila Pallavicini, ∞ Azzo VII d' Este, Marquis of Ferrara