Otto de la Roche
Otto de la Roche
He established his headquarters at the Acropolis and either through alliances or through fighting with various other leaders - expanded his power as far as Argolis, Corinthia and Livadeia. Otto de la Roche dismissed the Orthodox archbishop and assigned as the Roman-Catholic archbishop, his fellow countryman, Verardo.
Otto de La Roche also transformed the Parthenon Temple into a Roman-Catholic church. Later came the conflict with the Pope regarding the ownership of certain church estates.
This opposition, however, ceased a little before the danger of spreading the policy of the ruler of Epirus, Theodore Komnenos Doukas. In 1225, Otto de la Roche abandoned Athens and returned to the west - leaving as his successor his nephew, Guy de la Roche.
