Greece, Latin East: Epiro, Neapolitan Principality, 1 Denier – ND

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Felipe de Taranto, son of Carlos II of Anjou, marries Nicéforo”s daughter, despot of Epiro, who in his struggle for staying independent of Constantinople, was looking for Angevino support. Felipe receives from his father the sovereignty of Achaia and Albania, and from his father -in -law some important strengths, and the promise that Epiro”s raven would pass to his daughter. But once he died, his widow favors his son and Felipe remains as a rant from Lepanto, and the widow Anna Paleologina and her son Tomás, from Arta. Tomás was killed by his nephew Nicolo Orsini, and this in turn by his brother Juan II Orsini. Andonic III found little resistance to reunify Epirus with the rest of the Empire.