Bartolomeo Zaccaria (died 1334) was the first husband of Guglielma Pallavicini

Guglielma Pallavicini

Guglielma Pallavicini , the Lady of Thermopylae, was the last Pallavicino heir to rule in Bodonitsa. She was but an infant when she succeeded her father Albert in 1311...

 (married 1327) and thus Margrave of Bodonitsa

Margrave of Bodonitsa

The margraviate or marquisate of Bodonitsa , today Mendenitsa, Phthiotis , was a Frankish state in Greece following the conquests of the Fourth Crusade. It was originally granted as a margravial holding of Guy Pallavicini by Boniface, first king of Thessalonica, in 1204...

 in her right. He also carried the title Lord of Damala during his lifetime.

As the eldest son of "King" Martin, born into the Genoese

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

 Zaccaria

Zaccaria

Zaccaria is a surname, and may refer to:* Anthony Maria Zaccaria* Bartolomeo Zaccaria* Benedetto I Zaccaria* Benedetto II Zaccaria* Centurione II Zaccaria* Francesco Antonio Zaccaria* Martino Zaccaria* Nicola Zaccaria...

 family which lorded it over Chios

Lordship of Chios

The Lordship of Chios was founded in 1304, when Benedetto I Zaccaria conquered the Greek island of Chios and received it as a fief from the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus. Chios remained well outside any practical Byzantine authority, however....

, Bartolomeo was a fitting match for the highborn Frankish heiress, who co-ruled with her mother, Maria dalle Carceri

Maria dalle Carceri

Maria dalle Carceri was the wife of Albert Pallavicini who succeeded to half of the marquisate of Bodonitsa on his death in 1311. While she avoided submitting her principality to the Catalan Company, she could not avoid paying an annual tribute of four destriers.Maria was descended from a Lombard...

, and stepfather, Andrea Cornaro

Andrea Cornaro

Andrea Cornaro of the House of Cornaro, was the husband of Maria dalle Carceri, widow of Albert Pallavicini. He married Maria in 1312 and co-governed her half of the marquisate of Bodonitsa until his death....

. As a youth, he was forced to help raise a ransom for his captured father.

During a Catalan

Catalan Company

The Catalan Company of the East , officially the Magnas Societas Catalanorum, sometimes called the Grand Company and widely known as the Catalan Company, was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in the early 14th-century...

 invasion, Bartolomeo was captured and carted off to a Sicilian

Sicily

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 prison. Only by the beseeching of Pope John XXII

Pope John XXII

Pope John XXII , born Jacques Duèze , was pope from 1316 to 1334. He was the second Pope of the Avignon Papacy , elected by a conclave in Lyon assembled by Philip V of France...

 was he released.

He was still young when he died, though he left a daughter named Marulla.

Sources

• Miller, W. "The Marquisate of Boudonitza (1204-1414)." Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 28, 1908, pp 234-249.
• Latin Lordships of Greece: Boudonitza.