Kantakouzenos Family - John VI Kantakouzenos, Theodora Kantakouzene, Wife of Alexiojohn VI Kantakouzenos, Theodora Kantakouzene, Wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond, Helena Kantakouzene, Empress of Trebizonds IV of Trebizond, Helena Kantakouzene, Empress of Trebizond (Paperback)

Chapters: John Vi Kantakouzenos, Theodora Kantakouzene, Wife of Alexios Iv of Trebizond, Helena Kantakouzene, Empress of Trebizond, Eirene Kantakouzene, Manuel Kantakouzenos, Matthew Kantakouzenos, Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, Michael Kantakouzenos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. 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: John VI Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzene (Greek:, Ianns VI Kantakouznos) (c. 1292 June 15, 1383), Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354, was born at Constantinople. John Kantakouzenos was the son of a Michael Kantakouzenos who was appointed governor of the Morea. By his mother Theodora Palaiologina Angelina, he was also a descendant of the reigning house of the Palaiologos. He was also related to the imperial dynasty through his wife Eirene Asanina, a second cousin of Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos. On the accession of Andronikos III in 1328, he was entrusted with the supreme administration of affairs. On the death of the emperor in 1341, John Kantakouzenos was left as the designated regent, and guardian of his son John V Palaiologos, who was nine years old. John had no imperial ambitions of his own, and refused to be crowned co-emperor despite being offered the opportunity by Andronikos III Palaiologos several times during the reign of latter. After the death of the emperor, John again refused to take the throne, and insisted that the rightful heir was John V, and that he would assume administrative control of the Empire until he was of age. Despite his stalwart devotion to the young emperor and his mother the empress Anna of Savoy, his friendship with the late emperor had aroused both the jealousy of the Patriarch of Constantinople and his former protege Alexios Apokaukos, and the paranoia of the empress who suspected him to be an usurper. When John Kantakouzenos left C...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=74226