Duchy of Athens
It is first mentioned in 1275 as one of the castles ceded by the ruler of Thessaly, John I Doukas, to the Duchy of Athens, as the dowry of his daughter Helena Angelina Komnene. Sometime between 1318 and 1327, it was conquered by the Catalan Company, which had taken over the Duchy of Athens. Except for an (uncertain) brief occupation by Albanian raiders in 1367, it remained in the hands of various Catalan families at least up to 1382, and possibly until the Ottoman conquest of the County of Salona in 1392. After that it lost its importance as a border fortress and was abandoned.