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
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
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
Michael I Komnenos Doukas
…assassinated soon after in his sleep, and was succeeded by his half-brother Theodore Komnenos Doukas. Michael was the illegitimate son of the sebastokrator John Doukas. His paternal grandparents were Constantine Angelos and Theodora, a daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118). Michael's uncle, Andronikos…
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