The Kantakouzeno family and Wallachian emperors Anonymous 07/03/2020 (Fri) 07:00:19 No.47197 del
"Kantakouzeno family who later became the voyvodes of Wallachia and Moldavia"

"The evil spirit of the time was John Cantacuzenus, the prime minister of the deceased emperor. He was a clever, shifty, intriguing courtier, with a turn for literature, but had the abilities neither of a general nor of a statesman."
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37756/37756-h/37756-h.html#Pg321

"was a Greek nobleman, statesman, and general. He served as grand domestic under Andronikos III Palaiologos and regent for John V Palaiologos before reigning as Byzantine emperor in his own right from 1347 to 1354. Deposed by his former ward, he was made to retire to a monastery under the name Joasaph Christodoulos and spent the remainder of his life as a monk and historian. At age 90 or 91 at his death, he was the longest living of both the Roman and Byzantine Emperers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_VI_Kantakouzenos
https://books.google.fi/books?id=hrNDBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=kantakouzenos+family&source=bl&ots=Lpw16hhcUL&sig=ACfU3U3kOAesJxjnwrEqkGLviSQpmCGJKQ&hl=fi&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjumOiQprDqAhVHUZoKHe5XCVAQ6AEwAnoECBMQAQ#v=onepage&q=kantakouzenos%20family&f=false

"By his wife Irene Asanina, a daughter of Andronikos Asan (son of Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria by Irene Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria, herself daughter of Michael VIII Palaiologos), John VI Kantakouzenos had several children, including:

-Matthew Kantakouzenos, co-emperor 1353–1357, later Despot of the Morea
-Manuel Kantakouzenos, Despot of the Morea
-Andronikos Kantakouzenos (died 1347)
-Maria Kantakouzene, who married Nikephoros II Orsini of Epirus
-Theodora Kantakouzene, who married Sultan Orhan of the Ottoman Empire
-Helena Kantakouzene, who married John V Palaiologos

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