Silver denier of Florent of Hainaut (1289-1297), Frankish Greece, Achaea, Crusader Kingdoms
+ FLORENS P ACh, Cross pattee // DE CLARENCIA. Castle tournois. 19 mm. 0.79 grams. Malloy p. 361/13b. Metcalf p. 261f
After the Fourth Crusade several new Crusader states were founded in Greece. One of these was the Principality of Achaea, founded in 1205. Kalavryta was lost to the Byzantine Greeks already by the end of the 13th century, the other baronies survived until the Principality of Achaea was conquered by the Byzantine Empire in 1430, and became part of the Despotate of the Morea.