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Theodore Branas or Vranas (Greek: Θεόδωρος Βρανᾶς, Theodōros Branas), sometimes called Theodore Komnenos Branas, was a general under the Byzantine Empire and afterwards under the Latin Empire of Const ...
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Alice de la Roche, Lady of Beirut, Regent of Beirut (died 1282) was the wife of John II of Ibelin, Lord of Beirut, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. She was a daughter of Guy I, Lord of Athens. Alice is so ...
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Isabella Pallavicini (died 1286), sometimes Jezebel, was the marchioness of Bodonitsa from 1278. She succeeded her brother Ubertino and also inherited her elder sister Mabilia's Italian possessions in ...
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Michael Astrapas and Eutychios (Greek: Μιχαήλ Αστραπάς και Ευτύχιος (flourished 1294 to 1317) were Greek painters from Thessaloniki. They had a very active workshop in the area and some of their work ...
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Manuel Panselinos (Greek: Μανουήλ Πανσέληνος, late 13th/early 14th centuries). He was a fresco and icon painter in the Byzantine Empire. He is one of the most influential artists of the Byzantine period ...
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Gregorios Kamonas (fl. c. 1215) was a Greek-Albanian Lord or Prince of Krujë (Arbanon) in ca. 1215. Demetrios Chomatenos (1216–1236) mentioned him as having the title of sebastos. He first married the ...
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Niketas or Nicetas Choniates (Greek: Νικήτας Χωνιάτης; c. 1155 – 1217), whose actual surname was Akominatos (Ἀκομινάτος), was a Greek Byzantine government official and historian – like his brother Michael ...
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Manuel Bryennios (Greek: Μανουήλ Βρυέννιος; c. 1275 – c. 1340) was a Byzantine scholar who flourished in Constantinople about 1300 teaching astronomy, mathematics and musical theory. His only surviving ...
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Rabbi Zerachiah the Greek (in Hebrew, Zerachiah ha-Yavani or ha-Yewani; sometimes known by the acronymistic nickname "Ra'Za'H") was a Greek-Jewish ethicist who resided in the Byzantine Empire in the t ...
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Theodore Mangaphas or Mankaphas (Greek: , fl. ca. 1188–1205) was a nobleman from Philadelphia who assumed the title of Byzantine Emperor twice, first during the reign of Isaac II, and secondly after the ...
Despot and lord of the Argolid, Corinthia and Central Greece
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Leo Sgouros (Greek: ) was a Greek independent lord in the northeastern Peloponnese in the early 13th century. The scion of the magnate Sgouros family, he succeeded his father as hereditary lord in the ...
13th century crusader and marquess of Bodonitsa in modern-day Greece
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Guy or Guido Pallavicini, called Marchesopoulo by his Greek subjects, was the first marquess of Bodonitsa in Frankish Greece from 1204 to his death in or shortly after 1237. He was one of the most important ...
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Gregory Chioniades (Greek: Γρηγόριος Χιονιάδης, Grēgorios Chioniadēs; c. 1240 – c. 1320) was a Byzantine Greek astronomer. He traveled to Persia, where he learned Persian mathematical and astronomical ...
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Thamar Angelina Komnene (late 13th century) was a member of the ruling house of the Despotate of Epirus and later Princess of Taranto as wife of Prince Philip I.
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Maximus (Russian: ) (died 1305) was the Metropolitan of Kiev (1283–1305) who moved the see of Russian metropolitans to Vladimir-on-Kliazma. In spite of the move, the metropolitans were officially known ...
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Maximus Planudes (Greek: Μάξιμος Πλανούδης, Máximos Planoúdēs; c. – c.) was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, mathematician, grammarian and theologian at Constantinople. Through ...
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Theodore II Doukas Laskaris or Ducas Lascaris (Greek: Θεόδωρος Δούκας Λάσκαρις, Theodōros Doukas Laskaris; 1221/1222 – August 16, 1258) was Emperor of Nicaea from 1254 to 1258. He was the only child of ...