Boniface of Verona

Boniface of Verona (died late 1317 or early 1318) is a powerful Lombard Crusader lord in Frankish Greece during the late thirteenth and early fourteenh centuries.

A poor knight from a junior branch of his family, he becomes a protégé of Guy II de la Roche, Duke of Athens, expels the Byzantines from Euboea in 1296, and advances to become one of the most powerful lords of Frankish Greece.

He serves as regent for the Duchy of Athens in 1308–09, following Guy II's death, and is captured by the Catalan Company in the Battle of Halmyros in March 1311.

Boniface, whom the Catalans esteem, refuses their offer to become their leader, but retains close relations with them, sharing a hostility towards the Republic of Venice and her own interests in Euboea.

Boniface dies in 1317/18, leaving his son-in-law, the Catalan vicar-general Alfonso Fadrique, as the main heir of his extensive domains.

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