Godscall Paleologue or Paleologus was the last recorded living member of the Paleologus family, and through them possibly the last surviving member of the Palaiologos dynasty, rulers of the Byzantine
St Dunstan's, Stepney, where Godscall was baptised on 24 January 1694
The Paleologus family, also called Palaiologos, Palaeologus and Paleologue, were a noble family from Pesaro in Italy who later established themselves in England in the 17th century. They might have be
Godscall Paleologue
…Godscall Paleologue or Paleologus (12 January 1694 – ?) was the last recorded living member of the Paleologus family, and through them possibly the last surviving member of the Palaiologos dynasty, rulers of the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in 1453. The…
Thomas Palaiologos, detail from the Pintoricchio fresco of Pius II's arrival at Ancona, in the Siena Cathedral
Portrait of Leo Allatius, keeper of the Vatican Library, who in 1648 wrote that Thomas Palaiologos had the three sons Andreas, Manuel and John
Miniature painting depicting Pesaro in 1578
Monument commemorating the 1670 (the monument erroneously gives the year as 1678) death of Ferdinand Paleologus in Barbados