Phocaea was an important commercial port, with its hinterland rich in alum, mineral at the time used for the tanning of leathers and fabrics.

[1] In Genoa, they established intense relationships with the most important families of the aristocracy through marriages: The Zaccaria controlled all the alum trade: from extraction to transport to its transformation and sale mainly in Flanders.

[2] He was succeeded in the title by his two sons, Martino Zaccaria, who would achieve further titular recognizion as King and Despot of Asia Minor from titular Latin Emperor Phillip III, and Benedetto III, their lordship reconfirmed and increased with the dominion of Samos, Tenedos, Marmora, Mytilene, and other territories.

After various events, he married in 1311 with Jacqueline de la Roche, the last heir of the Dukes of Athens, receiving as a dowry the baronies of Veligosti in Messenia and Damala on the Argolid Peninsula, he died in Smyrna in 1345.

[3][4] The Zaccaria de Damalà branch in Greece would end up in time outranking, outshining, and outliving the main Genoese branch of the Zaccaria family through their own merits and exploits, rising to become the last ruling dynasty of the Principality of Achaea, and would later become the prominent Damalas noble family in Chios and in the modern Kingdom of Greece.