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About Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, dowager countess of Salona
Helena Asanina Kantakouzene (died after 1394) was the sovereign Dowager Countess of Salona in Frankish Greece from 1382 until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in 1394.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Asanina_Kantakouzene
Helena was one of the younger daughters of Matthew Kantakouzenos and Irene Palaiologina. She was known to be living with her mother and sister Maria in Gratianopolis (modern Gratini), when Emperor John V Palaiologos moved the women to Tenedos. In 1361 she went with her father Matthew to live in the Morea, where she afterwards married Louis Fadrique, Count of Salona, lord of Zetouni and lord of Aegina. When he died in 1382, she continued to reign as Dowager Countess of Salona.[1]
She had only one child, Maria Fadrique Kantakouzene, by her husband Louis Fadrique, who was born around 1370. Maria, whom Laonikos Chalkokondyles describes as very beautiful, was much sought after in marriage.
in 1390 arrangements appear to have been made for Maria to marry Matthew of Moncada, son of William Raymond of Montcada, Count of Augusta.[3]
Chalkokondyles tells how Salona was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, and that afterwards both Helena and her daughter Maria entered the Sultan's harem. According to a letter from Nerio Acciaioli to his brother Donato dated 20 February 1394, the capture of Salona can be dated either at the end of 1393 or the beginning of 1394.[4]
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http://genealogy.euweb.cz/byzant/byzant5.html
D4. Helena Asenina Kantakouzene, Countess of Salona, +1394; m.after 1361 Don Luis Fadrique of Aragon, Count of Malta, Gozzo and Salona (+1382) [After Helena disgraced herself and brought shame upon the people of Salona, by committing her authority into the hands of her lover, a priest called Strateus, for which reason the Archbishop of Larissa denounced her to the Sultan, and gave him the pretext for seizing the county of Salona]
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- Matthew Фадрик, of Moncado was not her husband
- Matilda d'Aragona, Countess of Malta and Gozo was not her child
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
- https://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/Aragona.html has errors
About Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, dowager countess of Salona (suomi)
Helena Asanina Kantakouzene (died after 1394) was the sovereign Dowager Countess of Salona in Frankish Greece from 1382 until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in 1394.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Asanina_Kantakouzene
Helena was one of the younger daughters of Matthew Kantakouzenos and Irene Palaiologina. She was known to be living with her mother and sister Maria in Gratianopolis (modern Gratini), when Emperor John V Palaiologos moved the women to Tenedos. In 1361 she went with her father Matthew to live in the Morea, where she afterwards married Louis Fadrique, Count of Salona, lord of Zetouni and lord of Aegina. When he died in 1382, she continued to reign as Dowager Countess of Salona.[1]
She had only one child, Maria Fadrique Kantakouzene, by her husband Louis Fadrique, who was born around 1370. Maria, whom Laonikos Chalkokondyles describes as very beautiful, was much sought after in marriage.
in 1390 arrangements appear to have been made for Maria to marry Matthew of Moncada, son of William Raymond of Montcada, Count of Augusta.[3]
Chalkokondyles tells how Salona was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, and that afterwards both Helena and her daughter Maria entered the Sultan's harem. According to a letter from Nerio Acciaioli to his brother Donato dated 20 February 1394, the capture of Salona can be dated either at the end of 1393 or the beginning of 1394.[4]
Notes
http://genealogy.euweb.cz/byzant/byzant5.html
D4. Helena Asenina Kantakouzene, Countess of Salona, +1394; m.after 1361 Don Luis Fadrique of Aragon, Count of Malta, Gozzo and Salona (+1382) [After Helena disgraced herself and brought shame upon the people of Salona, by committing her authority into the hands of her lover, a priest called Strateus, for which reason the Archbishop of Larissa denounced her to the Sultan, and gave him the pretext for seizing the county of Salona]
Comments
- Matthew Фадрик, of Moncado was not her husband
- Matilda d'Aragona, Countess of Malta and Gozo was not her child
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
- https://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/Aragona.html has errors
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Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, dowager countess of Salona's Timeline
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1347
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Didimoticho, East Macedonia and Thrace, Makedonia Thraki, Greece
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1370
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1394
Age 47
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Thessaloniki, Greece
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