A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Overview
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Members · 8
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
4 children in the house
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Matthew Kantakouzenos 1325 CE – 1383 CE 1 child in the house
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Manuel Kantakouzenos c. 1326 CE – 1380 CE - Theodora Kantakuzini c. 1332 CE – after 1381 CE
- Helena Kantakouzene 1333 CE – 1396 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Maria Palaiologina Kantakouzene13th century CE – after 1294 CE · Empress of Bulgaria - Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene13th century CE – 1318 CE · Byzantine princess, Regent of Epirus
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John VI Kantakouzenos1292 CE – 15 June 1383 CE · Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 (1292–1383) - Matthew Kantakouzenos1325 CE – 15 June 1383 CE · Child of John VI Kantakouzenos
- Manuel Kantakouzenosc. 1326 CE – 10 April 1380 CE · Child of John VI Kantakouzenos
- Theodora Kantakuzinic. 1332 CE – after 1381 CE · Child of John VI Kantakouzenos
- Helena Kantakouzene1333 CE – 10 December 1396 CE · Child of John VI Kantakouzenos
- Demetrios I Kantakouzenos1343 CE – 1383 CE · Child of Matthew Kantakouzenos
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Byzantine emperor
- 2 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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31 March 1347 CE – 10 December 1354 CE John VI Kantakouzenos Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 (1292–1383)
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Matthew Kantakouzenos emperor and autocrat of the Romans
Despot of the Morea
- 2 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1383 CE Demetrios I Kantakouzenos Despot of Morea
No dates recorded 1
- Dates unrecorded Manuel Kantakouzenos Despot of the Morea
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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