1407 Births - Demetrios Palaiologos, Eleanor Beauchamp, Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Jacob (Paperback)

Chapters: Demetrios Palaiologos, Eleanor Beauchamp, Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Alain de Cotivy, Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury, Leonello D'este, Marquis of Ferrara, Maffeo Vegio, Marguerite B tarde de France, Guidantonio Manfredi, Alessandra Macinghi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Demetrios Palaiologos or Demetrius Palaeologus (Greek: ) (14071470), Despot (despots) in the Morea de facto 14361438 and 14511460 and de jure 14381451, previously governor of Lemnos 14221440, and of Mesembria 14401451. He would have been the legitimist claimant to the Byzantine throne after 1453, until his desertion to the Ottomans in 1460. Demetrios Palaiologos was a younger son of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and his wife Helena Draga. His maternal grandfather was Constantine Draga. His brothers included emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos, as well as Theodore II Palaiologos and Thomas Palaiologos, despots in the Despotate of Morea, and Andronikos Palaiologos, despot in Thessalonica. As a younger son Demetrios was not expected to rule, but was granted the court title of despots in accordance with standard practice. His ambition apparently led to conflict in the imperial family. Although he then received possession of island of Lemnos in from his father Emperor Manuel II in 1422, he refused to live there and fled to the court of King Sigismund of Hungary in 1423, requesting protection against his brothers. More than a year passed until he moved to Lemnos in 1425 where he lived in peace for the next decade. Perhaps too untrustworthy to leave behind, he was part of the entourage of his brother Emperor John VIII Palaiologos, arriving in Florence for the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1532212