John Doukas (sebastokrator)
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John Doukas, Latinized as Ducas, was the eldest son of Constantine Angelos by Theodora Komnene, the seventh child of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. John Doukas took the f
Killing of Hagiochristophorites, miniature by Jean Colombe in Les Passages d'outremer (c. 1473), BNF.
Electrum coin of John's son Theodore (left) as Emperor of Thessalonica, blessed by the city's patron, St. Demetrius
Michael I Komnenos Doukas
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Michael I Komnenos Doukas, Latinized as Comnenus Ducas, and in modern sources often recorded as Michael I Angelos, a name he never used, was the founder and first ruler of the Despotate of Epirus from
John Doukas (sebastokrator)
…daughter, possibly named Anna (c. 1190 – unknown), either she or, more likely, her daughter, married in 1227 Matthew Orsini, Count palatine of Cephalonia. Michael I Komnenos Doukas (c. 1170 – c. 1215), the bastard son, founder of the Epirote state after the Fourth Crusade, which he ruled until his death. Choniates, Nicetas (1984…
Monogram of Michael on the walls of Berat Castle, Albania
Early 14th-century miniature depicting the Crusader attack on Constantinople
The castle of Angelokastro in Corfu, whose construction is sometimes attributed to Michael