Abstract:Abstract. Leo Sgouros is one of the Byzantine magnates who ruled in the northeastern Peloponnese in the late 12 th -early 13 th centuries. The paper discusses the separatist activity of the Leo Sgouros which allowed him in a short time to create ephemeral 'state' in the South of Thessaly, Boeotia, Attica, Corinth and the Argolid. In order to give legitimacy to his authority Leo Sgouros married the daughter of the deposed Emperor Alexios III. But his way from separatism to Imperial idea was interrupted by the c… Show more
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