 He also defeated a group of Turk marauders with Venetian support on 6 February 1386.On 17 April 1387, Peter IV's successor, John I of Aragon, offered Nerio to renew the peace, but Nerio's troops did not abandon the siege of the Acropolis, although a plague had forced him to move to Thebes.The occupation of the duchy became his principal aim and he did not pay the full rent of the galleys that he had hired from Venice against the Turks.