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William I of Champlitte (French: Guillaume de Champlitte) (1160s-1209) was a French knight who joined the Fourth Crusade and became the first prince of Achaea (1205–1209).cite-ref-1[1]cite-ref-longnon-239-2-0[2]cite-ref-evergates-220-3-0[3]

• Early years and the Fourth Crusade

• Foundation of the Principality of Achaea

• See also

• References

• Sources

• Further reading

William was the second son of Odo or Eudes I of Champlitte, viscount of Dijon.cite-ref-evergates-220-3-1[3] He later married Elisabeth of Mount-Saint-Jean, but they divorced in 1199.

William was one of the crusader leaders who signed the letter written in April 1203 by Counts Baldwin IX of Flanders, Louis I of Blois and Chartres and Hugh IV of Saint Pol to Pope Innocent III after the occupation of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).cite-ref-4[4]

The imperial throne was given to Baldwin IX of Flanders on May 16, 1204.cite-ref-runciman-125-5-0[5]

Early in 1205 Geoffrey of Villehardouin, one of William of Champlitte's allies went to the camp of Boniface I of Thessalonica at Nauplia (now Nafplion, Greece).cite-ref-fine-69-6-0[6]cite-ref-longnon-237-7-0[7] He had earlier occupied some parts of Messenia.cite-ref-fine-69-6-1[6]

William in short time occupied Coron (now Koroni, Greece), Kalamata and Kyparissia.cite-ref-setton-25-8-0[8]

William became the Prince of Achaea during 1205.cite-ref-9[9]

While traveling to France, his death occurred during 1208 in Apulia.cite-ref-10[10]cite-ref-11[11]

• Fourth Crusade

• Principality of Achaea

• Battle of the Olive Grove of Koundouros

cite-note-11. ↑ Runciman 1951, p. 126.

cite-note-longnon-239-22. ↑ Longnon 1969, p. 239.

cite-note-evergates-220-33. ↑ Evergates 2007, p. 220.

cite-note-44. ↑ Andrea 2000, pp. 54-56.

cite-note-runciman-125-55. ↑ Runciman 1951, p. 125.

cite-note-fine-69-66. ↑ Fine 1994, p. 69.

cite-note-longnon-237-77. ↑ Longnon 1969, p. 237.

cite-note-setton-25-88. ↑ Setton 1976, p. 25.

cite-note-99. ↑ Fine 1994, p. 70.

cite-note-1010. ↑ Fine 1994, p. 71.

cite-note-1111. ↑ Setton 1976, p. 34.

• Andrea, Alfred J. (2000). Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade. Brill. ISBN 90-04-11740-7.

• Evergates, Theodore (2007). The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4019-1.

• citereffine1994Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1994) [1987]. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-10079-8. OCLC 749133662.

• citereflongnon1969Longnon, Jean (1969) [1962]. "The Frankish States in Greece, 1204–1311". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Wolff, Robert Lee; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Later Crusades, 1189–1311 (Second ed.). Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 234–275. ISBN 0-299-04844-6.

• citerefrunciman1954Runciman, Steven (1954). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• citerefsetton1976Setton, Kenneth M. (1976). The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-114-0.

• citerefbon1969Bon, Antoine (1969). La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe [The Frankish Morea. Historical, Topographic and Archaeological Studies on the Principality of Achaea] (in French). Paris: De Boccard. OCLC 869621129.

• Finley Jr, John H. "Corinth in the Middle Ages." Speculum, Vol. 7, No. 4. (Oct., 1932), pp. 477–499.

• Joinville, Jean de; Villehardouin, Geoffroi de; Shaw, Margaret R. B. (1963). Chronicles of the Crusades. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-044124-7.

• Tozer, H. F. "The Franks in the Peloponnese." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 4. (1883), pp. 165–236.