After losing to this force at Halmyros, Roger Deslaur was named the new leader of it, at the same time succeeding his former boss Walter V of Brienne as Duke of Athens.
After losing to this force at Halmyros, Roger Deslaur was named the new leader of it, at the same time succeeding his former boss Walter V of Brienne as Duke of Athens. Despite being outnumbered 14,000 to 2,500, it decisively won the Battle of Apros. This force's first leader married Maria Asenina, the daughter of a Bulgarian ruler and was killed along with 130 of his top aides at a banquet given in honor of him. This force was excommunicated by Clement V after it pillaged Thrace and Macedonia in revenge for (*) Michael IX Palaeologus' treacherous murder of its leader. This group, which featured many Almogavars, was founded by the Italian rascal Roger de Flor, who initially hired it out to the Byzantines to fight the Ottomans. For 10 points, name this 14th century group of mercenaries whose members mostly came from a principality controlled by the Kingdom of Aragon.
After losing to this force at Halmyros, Roger Deslaur was named the new leader of it, at the same time succeeding his former boss Walter V of Brienne as Duke of Athens.
Catalan Company of the East [or Magna Societas Catalanorum; prompt on the Grand Company, prompt on Almogavars]