Qualla: Battle of Manolada https://qualla.com/battle-of-manolada en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Manolada https://qualla.com/battle-of-manolada Battle of Manolada: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-manolada/ Two men had married the right women, or so they believed. Louis of Burgundy had wed Matilda of Hainaut, the eldest granddaughter of the last native prince of Achaea. Ferdinand of Majorca had married Isabella of Sabran, daughter of Matilda's rival aunt, Margaret of Villehardouin. Both men believed their wives gave them a legal claim to the Principality of Achaea — that Frankish relic of the Fourth Crusade, still clinging to the northwestern Peloponnese. On a July morning in 1316, they settled the question on the plains of Elis near Manolada. The settlement was not what either of them expected.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/0/battle-of-manolada-wp/sqz0-battle-of-manolada-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Manolada: An Inherited Quarrel https://qualla.com/battle-of-manolada/ The Principality of Achaea had passed out of the native Villehardouin line and into Angevin hands through the Treaty of Viterbo, following the death of William II Villehardouin in 1278. The Angevins of the Kingdom of Naples treated Achaea as a possession to be managed, leased, an...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/0/battle-of-manolada-wp/sqz0-battle-of-manolada-a-year-of-manoeuvring.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Manolada: The Field at Manolada https://qualla.com/battle-of-manolada/ On 5 July 1316, the two forces met on the plains near Manolada. At the outset, the Majorcan troops broke through the first Burgundian line — the one commanded by John Orsini, count of Cephalonia. It looked, for a moment, as though Ferdinand's gamble might pay off. But the second ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/0/battle-of-manolada-wp/sqz0-battle-of-manolada-the-field-at-manolada.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Manolada: Victory Without a Victor https://qualla.com/battle-of-manolada/ Louis of Burgundy did not long enjoy what he had won. Four weeks after the battle, he was dead — cause unrecorded, but the medieval Peloponnese in summer offered several plausible candidates. He left behind his wife, Matilda of Hainaut, twenty-two years old and twice widowed, rul...

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