Centurione I Zaccaria was a powerful noble in the Principality of Achaea

Principality of Achaea

The Principality of Achaea or of the Morea was one of the three vassal states of the Latin Empire which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. It became a vassal of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, along with the Duchy of Athens, until Thessalonica...

 in Frankish Greece. In 1345 he succeeded his father, Martino Zaccaria

Martino Zaccaria

Martino Zaccaria was the lord of Phocea and Chios from 1314 to 1330. He co-reigned with his brother Benedetto III after the death of their father Paleologo....

, as baron of Damala

Troezen

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 and lord of one half of the barony of Chalandritsa

Chalandritsa

Chalandritsa is a village in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Erymanthos, of which it is the seat of administration....

, and in 1359 he acquired the other half. He was named Great Constable

Constable

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 of Achaea and thrice held the post of bailiff

Bailiff

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 for the principality's Angevin

Capetian House of Anjou

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 rulers.

By his marriage to a lady of the Asanes family, he had the following children

• Andronikos Asanes Zaccaria, father of Centurione II Zaccaria
  Centurione II Zaccaria
  Centurione II Zaccaria , scion of Genoese powerful merchant family established in the Morea, was installed as Prince of Achaea by Ladislaus of Naples in 1404 and was the last ruler of the Latin Empire not under Byzantine suzerainty....
  
  , Prince of Achaea in 1404–1432
• Maria II Zaccaria
  Maria II Zaccaria
  Maria II Zaccaria , was a sovereign Princess of Achaia, and titular Queen of Thessalonica.She was daughter of Centurione I Zaccaria, Lord of Veligosti, Damala and Chalandritsa. She succeeded her spouse Pedro Bordo de San Superano in 1402...
  
  , married Pedro Bordo de San Superano
  Pedro Bordo de San Superano
  Pedro Bordo de San Superano was one of the captains of the Navarrese Company in the Morea from 1379 until he was made Prince of Achaea in 1396, a post he held to his death.After the remnants of the first Navarrese company moved from Durazzo to the Morea,...
  
  , Prince of Achaea in 1396–1402; Maria was Princess of Achaea in her own right in 1402–1404
• Manuel Zaccaria
• Philip Zaccaria