Walter VI, Count of Brienne
Duke of Athens and Governor of Florence · France · On the map · Lived 1302 to 1356 · aged 54
Walter VI of Brienne, also known simply as the Duke of Athens, was a French nobleman and crusader. He was the count of Brienne in France, the count of Conversano and Lecce in southern Italy and claimant to the Duchy of Athens in Frankish Greece.
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Seal of Walter, with his title of "Duke of Athens"
Orcagna, The Expulsion of the Duke of Athens (1343), in the Palazzo della Signoria
The Expulsion of the Duke of Athens from Florence, by Stefano Ussi (1860)
The Duke of Athens Contemplating the Sleeping Princess: 18th-century illustration from the Decameron.