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Gattilusi were
Lords of ****s (present-day in Greece) from 1355 to 1462 and
Lords of
Aenus (present-day in Turkey) from 1376 to 1456. The
Gattilusi family...
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Caterina Gattilusio (died
August 1442) was the
second wife of
Constantine XI, the last
Byzantine emperor,
while he was
still Despot of the Morea. She was...
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Irene Gattilusio (died 1
January 1440
under the
monastic name Eugenia) was a
Byzantine empress consort by
marriage to John VII Palaiologos, a Byzantine...
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showing the
eagle of the
Doria family (far left), the
family cypher of the
Palaiologoi (center left), and the
Gattilusi coat of arms (center right)...
- of Lavagna, and
produced two Popes: Pope
Innocent IV and Pope
Adrian V
Gattilusi:
lords of
numerous lands in the
Aegean Sea, such as Lemnos, ****s, Enez...
- it was
granted as a fief to the
Genoese Francesco I Gattilusio. The
Gattilusi also
ruled Old
Phocaea on the
Anatolian mainland and the town of Ainos...
- took
their place, only to be
dislodged in 1355 by a
Genoese family, the
Gattilusi. The
Ottoman Empire conquered it in 1457 and it was
called Semadirek in...
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namely (in
chronological order of
descent from 1355 to 1965) the
Gattilusi-Palaiologos-Savoy, Grimaldi, Imperiali, Carafa, Doria, Doria-Pamphili-Landi...
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granted Lemnos, however. In 1456,
Mehmed II
attacked and
captured the
Gattilusi domains in
Thrace (Ainos and the
islands of
Samothrace and Imbros). During...
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various Genoese nobles established domains in the
northeastern Aegean: The
Gattilusi family established a
number of fiefs,
under nominal Byzantine suzerainty...