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Philippe de Mézières, who had joined the …
Years: 1346 - 1346
Philippe de Mézières, who had joined the crusader relief force led by Humbert II, Dauphin of Vienne, is knighted after defending Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey) against Turkish assault in 1346.
Born of poor nobility, Mézières had initially been a soldier of fortune in Italy, serving Lucchino Visconti, lord of Milan, but within a year he entered the service of the husband of Joan I of Naples and Andrew, Duke of Calabria, who was the son of the King Charles I of Hungary.
Andrew had very soon been assassinated very soon in September 1345, and in the autumn of that year, Mézières had set out for the East in the French army.
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Years: 1346 - 1346
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People
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- Cyprus, Kingdom of
- Milan, Lordship of
- Naples, Angevin Kingdom of
- Knights Hospitaller (of Rhodes), Order of the
- France, (Valois) Kingdom of
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Commodoties
Subjects
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Subregions