Odo de Novelles (also known as Iot de Novelles, Odo de Novellis, Oddonem de Novellis, Otus de Novelles and Odon Novello)[1] was one of the leaders of the Catalan Company in Medieval Greece, after the death of Roger de Flor.[2] In 1320 he married the daughter of a local lord in Demetrias, Thessaly known as 'Missili' (Stefanos Gabrieloupulos Melissenos).[3] In 1335, as marshal of the Catalan Company he was excommunicated by archbishop William Frangipani, along with the other leaders of the company.[4]

Odo de Novelles
Other name(s)Iot de Novelles
UnitCatalan Company

References edit

  1. ^ Antoni Rubió i Lluch (1933). La Població de la Grècia catalana en el XIVèn segle. Institut d'Estudis Catalans. p. 47. GGKEY:W842ZNGN94X. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. ^ Setton, Kenneth M. (1975). "The Catalans in Greece, 1311–1388". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 167–224. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.
  3. ^ Benjamin Arbel; Bernard Hamilton; David Jacoby (12 October 2012). Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204. Routledge. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-136-28916-3. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  4. ^ ed SETTON; Kenneth Meyer Setton (1969). A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, edited by H. W. Hazard. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-299-06670-3. Retrieved 29 July 2020.