Georgios Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, "Sachatai"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kantakouzenos

Theodore's wife was Helena Ouresina Doukaina, a daughter of John Uroš, ruler of Thessaly.[10] He is believed to have had the following issue:

1. George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos (Greek: Γεώργιος Παλαιολόγος Καντακουζηνός; ca. 1390 – 1456/59[1]%29 was a Byzantine aristocrat, a member of the Kantakouzenos family, and adventurer. He is also known by the Turkish nickname Sachatai, which he earned in the service of the Despot Constantine early in his military career.[2]

Disputed parents

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Palaiologos_Kantakouzenos
/!\ {FR ...Nicol suppose en outre que son père était Démétrios Cantacuzène[7]. }

George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos was likely the son of Theodore Palaiologos Kantakouzenos.[3] Among his siblings were the Despotess of Serbia Irene Kantakouzene, the Empress of Trebizond Helena, and the unnamed wife of King George VIII of Georgia. He was also a cousin of the last two Byzantine emperors, John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos.[1]

Family

Hugues Busac, compiling the genealogy of his wife Carola Cantacuzene de Flory, describes George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos as her grandfather and the brother of the Grand Domestic Andronikos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos. Spandounes claimed him as his maternal grandfather, and elsewhere describes him as the grandson of the Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos. Nicol believes Spandounes is in error, and the Emperor John VI was his great-grandfather and Matthew Kantakouzenos his grandfather.

Although there is no surviving record of his wife's name, Hugues Busac credits him with a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. According to Nicol, they are:[6]

1. Theodore Kantakouzenos (died 1459?)
2. Manuel Kantakouzenos (flourished 1450–1470)
3. Thomas Kantakouzenos (flourished 1460), only known through Busac's genealogy.[8]
4. Demetrios Kantakouzenos, of whom nothing certain is known.[9]
5. An unnamed daughter, who married George Raoul; Raoul served as an envoy for the Despot of the Morea Thomas Palaiologos in July 1460[10]
6. Another unnamed daughter, who married Nicholas Palaiologos.[11]
7. Zoe Kantakouzene de Flory, who married James II de Flory, Count of Jaffa, and the parents of Hugues Busac's wife Carola.[12]
8. Anna Kantakouzene, who married Vladislav Hercegović
9. Another unnamed daughter, whom Nicol speculates was the mother of Eudokia Kantakouzene, the mother of Theodore Spandounes.[13]

Origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantakouzenos#Family_tree_of_the_Impe...

John VI Kantakouzenos, rose to be megas domestikos, regent, and eventually emperor (1341–1354) before resigning and retiring to a monastery after a failed civil war.[4] John VI's eldest son Matthew also reigned as his co-emperor and as a pretender (1353–1357) before being captured and forced to resign as well. John's younger son Manuel Kantakouzenos remained despotes of the Morea from 1349 until 1380. Of John VI's daughters, Helena Kantakouzene married John and Matthew's rival John V Palaiologos (r. 1341–1391), Maria married Nikephoros II Orsini of Epirus, and Theodora married the Ottoman bey Orhan I.[3]

Matthew's two sons, John and Demetrios, ruled briefly the Morea.[3] It is generally believed that John, about whom relatively few documents have survived, died childless, and that the numerous Kantakouzenoi of the following generation, as well as the historian Theodore Spandounes and the wife of genealogist Hugues Busac, trace their descent from Matthew through Demetrios.[5] [DIsputed]

The possible descendants of Demetrios (the exact parentage is uncertain) were Georgios, called "Sachatai"; Andronikos, the last megas domestikos of the Byzantine Empire; Irene, who married Đurađ Branković; Thomas, who served in Branković's court; Helena, who became the second wife of David of Trebizond; and an unnamed daughter, who may have become queen of Georgia.[6]

Genealogical records

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM%2012611453.htm#Euphrosyne...

THEODOROS Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, son of [DEMETRIOS] Kantakouzenos & his wife --- (after 1361-1410). Theodoros Kantakouzenos & his wife had [nine] children: ....

3. GEORGIOS Palaiologos Kantakouzenos "Sachatai" (-before 1459). The Masarelli Vatican manuscript names (in order) Demetrios, Manuel, Georgios, Andronikos, Thomas, as the sons of Theodoros & his wife[594]. Theodoros Spandounes names "il signor Georgio Cantacusino nomato Sachatai…nipote…figliolo del figliolo dell’imperatore Ioanne Cantacusino"[595]. In Peloponnesos 1431/36. In Trebizond 1436/37. He lived at the court of his brother-in-law Djuradj Branković of Serbia 1437. Serbian Archon at Semendria 1454/56. m ([1424]%29 MARIA, daughter of MANUEL Razi [Ralli] & his wife ---. The Masarelli Vatican manuscript names Maria, daughter of Manuel Razi as the wife of Georgios, son of Theodoros, adding that they had twelve sons and twelve daughters, of whom five sons and eight daughters survived[596].

Georgios Kantakouzenos & his wife had 12 sons and 12 daughters: ...

The Masarelli Vatican manuscript names (in order) Euphrosyne, Maria, Philippa, Eirene, Cherana, Theodora, Philippa and Zoia as the eight surviving daughters of Georgios & his wife, stating that Anna married Vladislav son of Stefan duke of Bosnia[634]. ....

References

• Nicol, Donald M. (1968). The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus), ca. 1100–1460: A Genealogical and Prosopographical Study. Dumbarton Oaks studies 11. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. OCLC 390843. GoogleBooks
• Nicol, Donald M. “The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos: Some Addenda and Corrigenda.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 27, 1973, pp. 309–315. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1291347. Accessed 13 Mar. 2021.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantakouzenos
• Donald Nicol later considered it more likely that Demetrios' offspring actually belonged to Theodore Kantakouzenos, who may have been either Demetrios' son, brother, or nephew. Brook, Lindsay L. (1989). "The Problematic Ascent of Eirene Kantakouzene Brankovič". Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Salt Lake City, Utah : Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. p. 6.
• http://genealogy.euweb.cz/byzant/byzant5.html shows as son of D2. Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, titled as sebastokrator in XII.1357, Despot of Morea (1383), *ca 1343, +btw 1384-1420; m.NN
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2010-05/... ... the Sachatai, Georgios Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, d 1459, is pretty reliably reconstrued as a son of senator ambassador Theodoros Palaiologos Kantakouzenos (d 1410) http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00111014&tree=LEO and this Georgios would surely been born around 1400 or earlier. Theodoros Spandounes names "*il signor Georgio Cantacusino nomato Sachatai…nipote…figliolo del figliolo dell´imperatore Ioannre Cantacusino*" in Peloponnesos 1431/36, in Trebizond 1436/37. He lived at the court of his brother-in-law Djuradj Branković of Serbia 1437. Serbian Archon at Semendria 1454/56
• https://blog.shops-net.com/40977685/1/george-palaiologos-kantakouze...

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GEORGIOS Palaiologos Kantakouzenos "Sachatai" (-before 1459). The Masarelli Vatican manuscript names (in order) Demetrios, Manuel, Georgios, Andronikos, Thomas, as the sons of Theodoros & his wife[594]. Theodoros Spandounes names "il signor Georgio Cantacusino nomato Sachatai…nipote…figliolo del figliolo dell’imperatore Ioanne Cantacusino"[595]. In Peloponnesos 1431/36. In Trebizond 1436/37. He lived at the court of his brother-in-law Djuradj Branković of Serbia 1437. Serbian Archon at Semendria 1454/56. m ([1424]%29 MARIA, daughter of MANUEL Razi [Ralli] & his wife ---. The Masarelli Vatican manuscript names Maria, daughter of Manuel Razi as the wife of Georgios, son of Theodoros, adding that they had twelve sons and twelve daughters, of whom five sons and eight daughters survived[596]. Georgios Kantakouzenos & his wife had 12 sons and 12 daughters:

• http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM%2012611453.htm#Euphrosyne...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Palaiologos_Kantakouzenos

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