The Navarrese and Gascon mercenaries, placing themselves…

The Navarrese and Gascon mercenaries, placing themselves under the command of Peter IV of Aragon early in 1377, had been reformed as four companies, commanded by four captains: the Gascon Mahiot of Coquerel and Pedro de la Saga and the Navarrese Juan de Urtubia and Guarro.

Internecine squabbles among the Latin lords of the Peloponnese weaken resistance to pressure from the Greeks, especially from the 1370s onward.

The Navarrese enter the Morea in the spring or early summer of 1378, some coming at the invitation of Gaucher of La Bastide, the Hospitaller prior of Toulouse and commandant in the Principality of Achaea and others probably at the bequest of the Florentine adventurer Nerio Acciaioli.

Gaucher hires Mahiot and the remnant of the company for eight months during the captivity of the Grand Master Juan Fernández de Heredia.

Meanwhile, …