THE FRANKS IN POROS ...

... on April 13th 1204, the Crusaders managed to conquer Constantinople with their Fourth Crusade.

The outcome of this conquest was to share the Byzantine Empire amongst the crusaders’ leaders according to the feudal system which existed at that time in the West. Thus various Latin states were founded such as the Achaic domination, the estates of Athens and of the Aegean along with several other small states.

Virtually the entire Peloponnese fell into the hands of the Achaic authority, led by Prince William. After him, Godefreigo Villardouino was in control.

Poros and Trizinia, along with the entire area of Nafplio and Argos, belonged to the supremacy of Achaia. But in 1212 the region was ruled by the Duke of Athens where Otto Delaros, the son of a nobleman from Burgundy, was proclaimed the leader.

Throughout Frankish rule, Poros was practically deserted and Barberini pirates held their base on the northern coast.

During the Venetian dominance, Damalas was the baron of Damalet and at the time of Pope Inokentios the 3rd, he became a Latin bishop. The archdiocese was maintained until the area was occupied by the Turks.