Cantacuzino family
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The House of Cantacuzino is a Romanian aristocratic family of Greek origin. The family gave a number of princes to Wallachia and Moldavia, and it claimed descent from a branch of the Byzantine Kantako
Cantacuzino Palace in Bucharest, Romania
Cantacuzino Castle in Bușteni, Romania
Kantakouzenos
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The House of Kantakouzenos, also found in English-language literature as Cantacuzenus or Cantacuzene, was a Byzantine Greek noble family that rose to prominence in the middle and late Byzantine Empire
Cantacuzino family
…aristocratic family of Greek origin. The family gave a number of princes to Wallachia and Moldavia, and it claimed descent from a branch of the Byzantine Kantakouzenos family, specifically from Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos (reigned 1347–1354). After the Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11, a lateral branch of the family…
John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine emperor.