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About Theodore I Palaiologos, despot of Morea

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4. THEODOROS Palaiologos ([1355]-Mistra 24 Jun 1407). The Historia Byzantina of Michælis Ducæ Nepotis names (in order) "Andronicum…Manuelem et Theodorum" as the first three children of "Imperator Iohannes"[307]. Georgios Phrantzes names "Andronicum despotam, Manuelem imperatorem, Theodorum Porphyrogenitum et Michaelem despotam" as the sons of "imperator Iohannes"[308]. Installed by his father as Despot of Morea in 1382, he was faced with the revolt of Demetrios Kantakouzenos who refused to accept his father's surrender of Morea to Theodoros[309]. Theodoros sealed an alliance with Nerio Acciaiuoli Lord of Corinth by his marriage to the latter's daughter on the understanding that he would eventually inherit Corinth[310]. He accepted Ottoman suzerainty in [1387], the Ottomans helping him suppress a Greek rebellion[311]. In 1394, Theodoros besieged Corinth, which had passed to Carlo Tocco (Nerio Acciaiuoli's other son-in-law) despite the 1385 marriage arrangement with Theodoros, but was defeated by the Ottomans under Evrenoz-beg who then invaded Morea. Theodoros finally acquired Corinth in 1396, after Venice mediated the release of Pedro Bordo de San Superano (commander of the Navarrese company who in 1396 had declared himself Prince of Achaia which by that time was reduced to a narrow strip of land in western Peloponnesos around Arcadia) whom Theodoros had captured, but sold it in 1400 to the Knights of St John[312]. At the end of his life he became a monk at Mistra as THEODORETOS. The Chronicon Breve records the death in 1407 of "despota Porphyrogenitus"[313]. m (1385) BARTOLOMEA Acciaiuoli, daughter of NERIO Acciaiuoli Lord of Corinth [later Duke of Athens], Lord of Vestitza & his wife Agnese Saraceno (-[1397]). The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not been identified. She received Corinth from her father as dowry[314]. Mistress (1): ---. The name of the mistress of Theodoros is not known. Theodoros Palaiologos had one illegitimate daughter by Mistress (1):
a) --- Palaiologina. Georgios Phrantzes records the marriage of "Musulmanus" and "Theodori despotam filiam"[315]. m (1404) as his second wife, Sultan SÜLEYMAN, son of Sultan BAYEZID I & --- (-murdered Feb 1411).

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