Category

Despots (court title)

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Michael VIII Palaiologos

founder of the Palaiologan dynasty (1224–1282)

Theodore I Laskaris

13th-century emperor of Nicaea

Béla III of Hungary

King of Hungary and Croatia from 1172 to 1196

heir apparent to the emperor or senior court official

John II of Trebizond

Emperor of Trebizond

43rd Doge of Venice

Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria

Bulgarian ruler

Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonica

Byzantine governor

Manuel Komnenos Doukas

Ruler of Thessalonica

Bulgarian noble

Alexios Palaiologos

Byzantine nobleman and heir apparent to Emperor Alexios III Angelos

John Komnenos Doukas

Byzantine emperor

John Palaiologos

Byzantine general

Dimitrios Angelos Doukas

Byzantine despot

Byzantine governor

Demetrios Palaiologos

Byzantine prince and governor

Konstantinos Komnenos Doukas

Konstantinos Palaiologos

Son of Andronikos II

John Palaiologos

Martino Zaccaria

Michael Palaiologos

son of Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos

John Kantakouzenos

Demetrios Doukas Komnenos Koutroules

son of Michael II Komnenos Doukas

Andronikos Palaiologos

briefly heir-apparent of the Empire of Nicaea

Michael Palaiologos

Byzantine prince

Philip of Anjou, Despot of Rhomania