Its capital was at the city of Lecce, and it was bounded by the territories of Brindisi to the north, Oria and Nardò to the west, and Soleto and Otranto to the south.

His daughter Elvira Maria Albina married Walter III of Brienne, whose family held the duchy of Lecce in the following centuries.

In 1384 Mary of Enghien, a granddaughter of Isabella of Brienne, became Countess of Lecce.

When she married Raimondo Orsini del Balzo, Count of Soleto and (from 1393 to 1406) Prince of Taranto, all of the Salento was united into one of the largest fiefdoms in the Kingdom of Naples and of the Italian peninsula.

[2] After his death, the county went to his son, Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, who had also inherited the Principality of Taranto in 1420.