Nicholas I Zorzi

Nicholas I Zorzi was the first Venetian of the Zorzi family to rule Bodonitsa, a Frankish march in Greece guarding the pass of Thermopylae. In 1335 he married its heiress Guglielma Pallavicini and ruled jointly with her.

The neighbouring Duchy of Athens was governed by the Catalan Company; Nicholas stayed on good terms with it but objected to its annual tribute of four war horses. He held the march until his death in 1345. His three sons, Francis, James and Nicholas, each ruled it in turn, and the Zorzi kept it until the Ottomans conquered it in 1414.