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 (unknown-1282), Lady of Beirut, Regent of Beirut
Guy I de la Roche (1205–1263), Frankish Duke of Athens
Guy II de la Roche (1280–1308), Frankish Duke of Athens
Isabella de la Roche, (died c.1291), daughter of Guy I de la Roche and wife of Geoffrey of Briel Jacqueline de la Roche (died c.1329) baroness of Veligosti and Damala in 1308-1329, from 1311 in co-regency with her spouse. John I de la Roche (died 1280) Frankish Duke of Athens, succeeding his father; Guy I de la Roche Othon de la Roche (died c.1234), first Frankish Lord and Duke of Athens Renaud de la Roche, father of Jacqueline de la Roche 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 (died 1287) succeeded his brother, John I de la Roche, as Duke of Athens in 1280.
Coat of arms
The la Roche family bears for arms: five points gules equipolated to four or.
References
Bibliography
James Rennell Rodd, The Princes of Achaia and the Chronicles of Morea: A Study of Greece in the Middle Ages, 1907, v. II, p. 314, "The De La Roches of Athens", —considered outdated