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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Constanti'nus Dragases (search)
Constanti'nus Xiii. Palaeo'logus or Constanti'nus Dragases
surnamed DRAGASES (o( *Palaio/logos o( draga/shs), the last emperor of the East, A. D. 1448-1453, was the fourth son of the emperor Manuel II. Palaeologus.
He was born in A. D. 1394, and obtained the throne after the death of his elder brother, the emperor John VII., in 1448.
He first married Theodora, daughter of Leonardo, count of Tocco, a lord in the Peloponnesus, and, after her death, Catharina, daughter of Notaras Palaeologus Catelusius, prince of Lesbos, by neither of whom he left issue.
Previously to his accession, Constantine was despot or lord of a small remnant of the Byzantine empire in the Chersonnesus Taurica, and during the reign of his brother John he was invested with the principality of, or more correctly a principality in, the Pcioponnesus, which he bravely defended against the Turks.
After the death of John, the throne was claimed by his surviving brothers, Demetrius, the eldest, Constantine, and Thomas.
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geor'gius SYRUS (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geo'rgius TRAPEZUNTIUS (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Joannes ARGYROPULUS (search)
Joannes ARGYROPULUS
17. ARGYROPULUS (*)Arguropou=los), one of the learned Greeks whose flight into Western Europe contributed so powerfully to the revival of learning. Joannes Argyropulus (or Argyropylus, or Argyropolus, or Argyropilus, or Argyrophilus, for the name is variously written) was born at Constantinople of a noble family, and was a presbyter of that city, on the capture of which (A. D. 1453) he is said by Fabricius and Cave to have fled into Italy; but there is every reason to believe that his removal was antecedent to that event. Nicolaus Comnenus Papadopoli (Hist. Gymnas. Patavini) states that he was twice in Italy; that he was sent the first time when above forty years old, by Cardinal Bessarion, and studied Latin at Padua, and that his second removal was after the capture of Constantinople. What truth there is in this statement it is difficult to say : he was at least twice in Italy, probably three, and perhaps even four times ; but that he was forty years of age at his
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)