Ravano dalle Carceri
Ravano dalle Carceri († 1216) was an Italian knights of the Fourth Crusade and Mr. Negroponte ( Euboea ). He came from an influential family of Verona, his brothers Riondello and Enrico officiated as podestà of Verona, or as Bishop of Mantua.
Life
During the crusade course is not reported, Ravano, but he is expected to have as almost all the Lombards in 1204 joined the entourage of the Marquis Boniface of Montferrat after the conquest of Constantinople Opel, which had risen to become King of Thessaloniki. In August 1205 Ravano was one of the three Lombard knights of Jacques d' Avesnes to a three Lord ( terzieri ) were appointed by Euboea. While he was with the southern third Carystus, the middle third was da Verona and the northern third of Oreos at Pegoraro dei Pegorari awarded to Chalcis its cognate Gilberto.
After the death of Boniface in 1207, the Lombard knights charged under the leadership of Oberto Briand rate against the rule of the boy king Demetrius and against the supremacy of the Latin Emperor Henry. Ravano joined this movement. However, the emperor was able to move in the spring of 1209 in Thessaloniki and capture Biandrate on the subsequent Parlement of Ravennika placed themselves under the Lords of Thebes -Athens and Achaia his supremacy. The Lombards were the imperial assembly demonstratively away and barricaded themselves in the Kadmeia of Thebes. Ravano himself led on the Gulf of Volos fruitless negotiations with the envoys of the Emperor, Conon de Béthune and Anseau de Cayeux. About the same time he was the sole Lord of Euboea become after his overlord Jacques d' Avesnes and Gilbert da Verona died and Pegoraro dei Pegorari had traveled back to the Italian homeland.
The general insecurity tried to use Ravano in order to completely resolve from the supremacy of the Latin Empire. In May 1209 he sent his brother, Bishop Enrico Mantua to offer the supremacy in Euboea included extensive trade privileges to Venice to the Maritime Republic. The task of the Lombards on the Kadmeia and thus the end of the rebellion end in May 1209 made to the plans, however. Although freed and towed to Evia Biandrate tried to get him to a new uprising against the Emperor to win, but he refused, after the Emperor personally walked for three days Euboea. Nevertheless, the recent events ushered in the dominance of Venice in Euboea, since the non Ravano of trade agreements remained. In 1211, a Venetian Bailli reached the island, which now represents a significant political factor in addition to the island was the Lord, although the formal supremacy of the Roman Empire remained.
Under Ravano a Latin church hierarchy was formed with four dioceses in Chalkis, Carystus, Zorkon and Avalona that were placed under the Archbishopric of Athens to Euboea. His personal relationship with the clergy, however, was tense, especially because he regularly transgressed against church property. He also tried an arrangement for coexistence achieve with the local Greek Orthodox clergy, while in 1208 intervened but the Archbishop of Athens. Because a relationship with a married nobleman by the name of Isabella, whom he later married, Ravano was finally occupied by the Archbishop with the excommunication, the first in 1212 by Pope Innocent III. was lifted.
Death and succession
Ravano dalle Carceri died in 1216, from his marriage with Isabella, he left a daughter named Bertha.
The successor to Euboea proved not without the intervention of the Venetian Bailli as complicated. The rule on the island was again and now finally divided into three parts, of which Isabella and Bertha were awarded the South ( Carystus ). The center ( Chalkis ) went to the brothers Guglielmo and Alberto, who were the sons of the former owner Gilberto da Verona. The north ( Oreos ), was awarded to the nephew and adopted sons of Ravano Rizzardo and Marino. The latter married to a daughter of the former owner Pegoraro dei Pegorari.