Some Ruling Families of the
Part 7
The KANTAKUZENOI
The exact relationships in the family Kantakuzenoi
are uncertain in most generations. One of them, Ioannes VI, was emperor of
Part 8
The PALAIOLOGOI
The early generations of this family are confused and
uncertain. The first certain ancestor seems to have been one Andronikos Dukas
Komnenos Palaiologos, Gov of Thessalonica, d.after 1246; m.a cousin, Theodora
Palaiologina; they had issue:
1a) Michael VIII Dukas Komnenos Palaiologos,
Emperor of
1b) Manuel (1254/7-ca
1259)
2b) Andronikos II
Palaiologos, Emperor of
[by
1st m.]:
1c) Michael IX
Palaiologos, co-emperor of
1d) Andronikos III
Palaiologos, Emperor of
1e) a son, b.and d.1321
2e) Ioannes V
Palaiologos, Emperor of
1f) Andronikos IV
Palaiologos, Emperor of
1g) Ioannes
1h) co-Emperor
Andronikos V, d.ca 1408, aged 7
2f) Manuel II
Palaiologos, Emperor of
1g) Ioannes VIII Palaiologos,
Emperor of
2g) Konstantinos Palaiologos
(1393/7-1400/5)
3g) Theodoros
Palaiologos, Despot of Achaia, a scholar and mathematician (1394/9-1448);
m.1421 Cleofa Malatesta (d.1433)
1h) Helene (1428-1458);
m.1441 John de Lusignan, King of
4g) Andronikos Palaiologos,
despot of Thessalonica (1400-1428); m.NN
1h) Ioannes Palaiologos
5g) Konstantinos XI
Palaiologos, Emperor of
6g) Michael Palaiologos(1406/7-1409-10)
7g) Demetrios
Palaiologos, Despot of Mistra, etc (1407/8-1470); m.1st 1436 Zoe
Paraspondylina (d.1440); m.2nd 1441 Theodora Asanina (d.1470/1)
1h) Helene (1442-1470),
taken into the harem of Sultan Muhammed II, later released
8g) Thomas Palaiologos,
Despot of the Peloponesus (1409/10-1465); m.1430 Aikaterina Zachariaina, Bss of
1h) Andreas
Palaiologos, titular Despot of Morea (1453-1502); m.Caterina ___
1i) Konstantinos Paleologo,
commander of the papal guard
2h) Manuel Palaiologos(1455-ca 1512)
1i) Ioannes Palaiologos
2i) Andreas, became a
Moslem
3h) Helene, d.1473;
m.1446 Lazar Brankovic (d.1458)
4h) Zoe-Sofia
(1448/51-1503); m.1471 Ivan III, Great Pr of
9g) [illegitimate]
Isabella=Zabia; m.1392 Hilarion Doria (1372-1423)
3f) Theodoros
Palaiologos, Despot of Peloponesus (1351-1407); m. Bartholomaia Acciacuoli,
heiress of
1g) [illegitimate] a dau., m.1404 Emir Suleiman (d.1410)
4f)
Michael Palaiologos; m.a dau. of Pr
Dobrotich of
5f) Eirene
Palaiologina, b.1349
6f) [illegitimate] Manuel
Palaiologos, d.after 1422
3e) Michael Palaiologos
(1337-ca 1370)
4e) Theodoros
Palaiologos, Gov of
5e) Eirene Palaiologina
(1327-after 1356); m.1336 Michael Asen of
6e) Maria Palaiologina,
heiress of Lesbos, d.1401; m.ca 1355 Francesco Gattilusio, patrician of Genoa,
Archon of
7e) Theodora
Palaiologina, d.ca 1376; m.
8e) [illegitimate]
Eirene, Empress of Trapezunt 1341-1; m.1335 (div 1339) Emperor Basileios I
Komnenos of Trapezunt (d.1340)
2d) Manuel Palaiologos,
killed by soldiers 1319
3d) Anna Despoina Palaiologina,
d.1321; m.1st 1313 Thomas Angelos, Despot of Epirus and Aetolia (d.1318); m.2d
1318 Nikolaos Orsini, Ct of Cephallenia
4d) Theodora
Palaiologina; m.1st 1320 Tsar Theodor Swetoslav of
2c) Konstantinos
Palaiologos, despot of Thessalonica, d.after 1329; m.1st 1295
Theodora Muzalon; m.2nd Eudokia Neokaisareitissa
1d) [illegitimate]
Michael Katharos
[by
2nd m.]:
3c) Ioannes
Palaiologos, despot of Thessalonica (1286-1307); m.1303 Eirene Chumnaina
(1292-1360)
4c) Theodoros
Palaiologos (1291-1338), he inherted his mothers margravate of Montferrat, and
his descendants held it until the last Paleologue, GianGiorgio Sebastiano, d.in
1533 (see Montferrat)
5c) Demetrios Angelodukas
Palaiologos, d.after 1343
6c) Bartholomaios,
d.young
7c) Isaakios, d.young
8c) Theodora, d.young
9c) Simonis, d.after
1336; m.1300 King Stepan Uros II of
10c) [illegitimate]
Maria; m.Tochtu Khan, of the Golden Horde
11c) [illegitimate]
Eirene; m.1315 Ioannes Dukas Angelos, Archon of Neiapatrai
3b) Konstantinos Dukas
Palaiologos, d.1306; m.1291 Eirene Raulaina
1c) Ioannes Komnenos
Palaiologos, despot of
1d) Maria Palaiologina,
d.1355; m.1325/6 King Stepan Uros III of Raska-Serbia (d.1331)
4b)
Theodoros Palaiologos, d.after 1310; m.ca 1293 a dau. of Libadarios
5b) Eirene
Palaiologina; m.1278 Tsar Ivan Asen III of
6b) Anna Komnene
Palaiologina (1260-1299/1300); m.1278 Demetrios Michael Angelos
7b) Eudokia
Palaiologina, d.1302; m.1282 Ioannes II Komnenos, Emperor of Trapezunt (d.1297)
8b) [illegitimate]
Euphrosyne=Eirene; m.1266 Nogaj Chan, of the Golden Horde (d.1293)
9b) [illegitimate]
Maria Palaiologina; m.1265 Ilchan of
2a) Ioannes Komnenos Palaiologos, d.1274; m.1st
1b) Konstantinos
Tornikes Palaiologos
2b) Anna Palaiologina,
d.1280; m.ca 1267 Nikolaos Maliasenos (d.1280)
3a) Konstantinos Palaiologos, d.1271; m.1259/60
Eirene Branaina (d.1271)
1b) Michael
Palaiologos, a monk, d.ca 1321
2b) Andronikos
Palaiologos; m.Anna Tarchaneiotissa
3b) Maria Palaiologina;
m.Isaakios Tornikes
4b) a dau., m.Tsar Smilec
of
5b) Theodora
Palaiologina; m.Ioannes Synadenos
4a) Maria Palaiologina, b.1216; m.ca 1237
Nikephoros Tarchaneiotes
5a) Eirene Palaiologina (1218-1284); m.Ioannes
Kantakuzenos