Qualla: Battle of Picotin https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin 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 Picotin https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin Battle of Picotin: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin/ The Chronicle of the Morea records the moment with unusual precision: Ferdinand of Majorca ordered his cavalry to carry the Almogavar infantry two-up on horseback so the army could reach the enemy faster. He set the example himself, a prince doubling as a transport. That improvisational energy captured something essential about the man — and about the chaotic, multinational scramble for control of the Frankish Principality of Achaea that produced the Battle of Picotin on 22 February 1316.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/p/battle-of-picotin-wp/sqxp-battle-of-picotin-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Picotin: A Principality Without an Heir https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin/ When Prince William II of Villehardouin died in 1278 without a male heir, the Principality of Achaea — a Frankish state carved from the Peloponnese after the Fourth Crusade — passed under the suzerainty of Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily, per the Treaty of Viterbo. The Angevins ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/p/battle-of-picotin-wp/sqxp-battle-of-picotin-a-principality-without-an-heir.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Picotin: The Field at Picotin https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin/ Princess Matilda of Hainaut — the Angevin-backed claimant — arrived in Achaea in late 1315, landing at Port-de-Jonc with 1,000 Burgundian soldiers as the vanguard of her husband Louis of Burgundy's force. Several of the Achaean barons who had accepted Ferdinand's rule now shifted...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/p/battle-of-picotin-wp/sqxp-battle-of-picotin-the-field-at-picotin.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Picotin: Two Hours, Seven Hundred Dead Horses https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin/ The Chronicle of the Morea is specific: within less than two hours, the Catalans killed 500 Burgundians and 700 native troops. Among the dead was Gilbert Sanudo, brother of the Duke of Naxos, and many other nobles. The Catalans counted 700 dead horses on the battlefield — a detai...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/p/battle-of-picotin-wp/sqxp-battle-of-picotin-two-hours-seven-hundred-dead-horses.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Picotin: Manolada and the End of the Catalan Bid https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin/ The victory at Picotin proved short-lived. On 5 July 1316, at the Battle of Manolada, Louis of Burgundy's enlarged force met Ferdinand's Catalans on the Elian plain. Ferdinand was defeated and killed. Within months, the Catalans had surrendered the fortresses they held — Chlemout...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/p/battle-of-picotin-wp/sqxp-battle-of-picotin-manolada-and-the-end-of-the-catalan-bid.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Picotin: A Footnote That Isn't https://qualla.com/battle-of-picotin/ The Battle of Picotin sits at the intersection of three cultures that rarely appear in the same medieval narrative: Catalan-Aragonese mercenaries, Burgundian knights, and Byzantine Greeks. Ferdinand's Almogavar infantry — battle-hardened soldiers who had already carved a bloody p...

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