By supporting Roberto son of Filippo, Centurione obtained the recognition of his sovereignty and the confirmation of his rights; violated several times in the past by the Angioni princes. His father Martino had continued the system of alliances through the marriages of his own children. Bartolomeo with his marriage to Guglielma Pallavicino, who had brought the Marquisate of Bodonitsa as a dowry. Centurione married an unknown woman of the Bulgarian Asen family. With this marriage linking the Zaccaria to the Imperial house of Bulgaria, and already being connected to the Palaiologoi through his great-grandfather's marriage, it consolidated the aims of the family as a princely dynasty.
