X-Nico

unusual facts about Catalan Company



Surma ratsanikud

The novel presents a fictionalised account of the adventures of Roger de Flor's mercenary Catalan Company in 14th-century Byzantium and elsewhere, as told by the fictional protagonist Pedro Casarmana.


see also

Cephissus

Battle of the Cephissus, 15 March 1311 conflict between the Frankish Greek forces of Walter V of Brienne and the mercenaries of the Catalan Company

Ramon Muntaner

The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks.