Durrës Expedition

Louis hired the Navarrese Company to support him in reclaiming his newly acquired rights over the city of Durrës and overall the Kingdom of Albania, inherited through his marriage to Joanna, Duchess of Durazzo.

The mercenaries relocated to Morea under new leadership, leaving Durrës a contested city until another invasion by Thopia in 1383, which led to the final disestablishment of the Kingdom of Albania.

In 1372, the ranks of the a group of mercenaries from Navarre, known as the Navarrese Company, began to swell at the behest of Enguerrand VII de Coucy, who orchestrated the recruitment of 500 lances and 500 mounted archers from Gascony.

[25][26] Marooned and keen to return to Navarre and Gascony, the Navarrese Company endured between two and three demanding years in destitute Durrës before eventually moving to Morea.

[30][31][32] Durrës remained under the control of Joanna and her second husband Robert IV of Artois for a few years until Thopia invaded again in 1383, leading to the final disestablishment of the Kingdom of Albania.

Louis of Évreux's brother Charles II of Navarre , who was King of Navarre
Karl Thopia , was related to Joanna , and distantly to Louis through his mother, Hélène .