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Matthew Kantakouzenos
Emperor and autocrat of the Romans
- Child of John VI Kantakouzenos and Irene Asanina
- Married to Irene Palaiologina
- Dated 1325 CE – 15 June 1383 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- Dates unrecorded Byzantine emperor
Family
The family of Matthew Kantakouzenos
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 14
Family 14
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Irene Asanina empress consort of John VI Kantakouzenos/Byzantine Empire
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child of (child) John VI Kantakouzenos Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 (1292–1383) - of the house Kantakouzenos Byzantine aristocratic family
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parent of (father) Demetrios I Kantakouzenos Despot of Morea - parent of (child) Helena Asanina Kantakouzene Byzantine Empire politician
- parent of (child) John Kantakouzenos Despot
- parent of (child) Maria Kantakouzena
- parent of (child) Theodora Kantakouzena
- sibling of Andronikos Kantakouzenos son of John VI Kantakouzenos
- sibling of Helena Kantakouzene Empress consort of John V Palaiologos
- sibling of Manuel Kantakouzenos Despot of the Morea
- sibling of Maria Kantakouzene daughter of the Byzantine emperor John VI Kantakouzenos
- sibling of Theodora Kantakuzini Wife of Orhan Ghazi
- married to Irene Palaiologina Byzantine empress
Connections
How Matthew Kantakouzenos connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 2
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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16 statements on this record
- 5 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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- Pictures
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