Cephalonia
Cephalonia was the centre of a county palatine that also included Zakynthos and Ithaca. In 1337 Robert of Taranto held the islands for the Angevin rulers of Naples and Achaea, following John II Orsini's death in 1335.
Robert granted the county to Leonardo I Tocco in 1357. From this island base, Carlo I Tocco took Ioannina in 1411 and Arta in 1416, becoming despot of Epirus. Ottoman pressure later drove the family back to the islands; in 1479 Venice and the Ottomans partitioned the county, with Zakynthos going to Venice.
Characters
- John I Orsini
- John II Orsini
- Maio I Orsini
- Maio II Orsini
- Maria Komnene Doukaina
- Maria Laskaris Vatatzaina
- Richard I Orsini
- Richard Orsini
- Nicholas Orsini