De la Roche family
The de la Roche family was a French noble family named for La Roche-sur-l'Ognon in Burgundy, France that founded the Duchy of Athens 1204 and held it for just over a century.
Notable members
- Alice de la Roche, Lady of Beirut, Regent of Beirut
- Guy I de la Roche, Frankish Duke of Athens
- Guy [II de la Roche], Frankish Duke of Athens
- Isabella de la Roche,, daughter of Guy I de la Roche and wife of Geoffrey of Briel
- Jacqueline de la Roche baroness of Veligosti and Damala in 1308–1329, from 1311 in co-regency with her spouse.
- James de la Roche, Baron of Veligosti and Damala, son of William de la Roche
- John I de la Roche Frankish Duke of Athens, succeeding his father; Guy I de la Roche
- Othon de la Roche, first Frankish Lord and Duke of Athens
- Renaud de la Roche, father of Jacqueline de la Roche, son of James
- William de la Roche (lord of Veligosti), Baron of Veligosti and Damala in the Principality of Achaea, and a relative of the ruling Dukes of Athens of the de la Roche family.
- William I de la Roche succeeded his brother, John I de la Roche, as Duke of Athens in 1280.