The House of Gattilusio was a powerful Genoese family who controlled a number of possessions in the northern Aegean from 1355 until the mid 15th century...

Caterina Gattilusio (died August 1442) was the second wife of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor, while he was still Despot of the Morea. She was...

Niccolò Gattilusio (died 1462) was the sixth and last Gattilusio lord of Lesbos, from 1458 to 1462. He was a younger son of Dorino I Gattilusio and Orietta...

Francesco Gattilusio may refer to: Francesco I Gattilusio (died 1384) Lord of Lesbos Francesco II Gattilusio (1365–1404) Lord of Lesbos Francesco III Gattilusio...

Francesco I Gattilusio (died 6 August 1384) was the first member of the Gattilusio family to rule the Aegean island of Lesbos as a vassal of the Byzantine...

Dorino Gattilusio may refer to: Dorino I Gattilusio (died 1455), Lord of Lesbos Dorino II Gattilusio (died 1488), Lord of Ainos, Samothrace and Imbros...

Francesco II Gattilusio (born Giacomo Gattilusio or Jacopo c. 1365 – 26 October 1403/1404) was the second Gattilusio lord of Lesbos, from 1384 to his...

The event put an end to the semi-independent Genoese lordship that the Gattilusio family had established in the northeastern Aegean since the mid-14th century...

Francesco III Gattilusio was a Lord of Thasos. He was a son of Dorino I of Lesbos and wife Orietta Doria. He married his cousin Gattilusio, daughter of...

II Gattilusio (died circa 1488) was the Lord of Ainos, Samothrace and Imbros from 1455 to January 1456. He was the second son of Palamede Gattilusio. Upon...

Dorino Gattilusio (died 30 June 1455) was the fourth Gattilusio Lord of Lesbos from 1428 until his death. He ruled Lesbos at a time of increasing Ottoman...

Domenico Gattilusio (died 1458) was the fifth Gattilusio lord of Lesbos from 1455 to 1458. He was a son of Dorino I Gattilusio and Orietta Doria. Domenico...

Niccolò Gattilusio (died 1409) was the first member of the Gattilusio family to rule the city of Aenus (modern Enez in Turkey). The Gattilusio family came...

Palamede Gattilusio (c. 1389–1455) was the Lord of Ainos from 1409 to his death, succeeding his great-uncle Niccolò. He was a younger son of Francesco...

Irene Gattilusio (died 1 January 1440 under the monastic name Eugenia) was a Byzantine empress consort by marriage to John VII Palaiologos, a Byzantine...

Luchetto Gattilusio (fl. 1248–1307) was a Genoese statesman, diplomat, and man of letters. As a Guelph he played an important role in wider Lombard politics...

Dorino Gattilusio, several members of the Genovesi Byzantine noble family Gattilusi Dorino I Gattilusio (died 1455) Lord of Lesbos Dorino II Gattilusio (died...

nearby island of Lesbos, given to the Gattilusio family as a result of the marriage between Francesco I Gattilusio and Maria Palaiologina, sister of Byzantine...

In the Late Middle Ages, the castle was the residence of Francesco I Gattilusio and his successors, especially the tower known today as the Queen's Tower...

dowry and fief to the Genoese Francesco I Gattilusio by the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos. The Gattilusio family ruled the island for over a century...

(acropolis) by Umberto Grimaldi, when Thassos was ruled by the Genoese Dorino I Gattilusio. The ruins of the citadel's wall can still be seen. Over the centuries...

marriage of the future Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos to Caterina Gattilusio 27 July 1441. The famous phrase "I would rather see a Turkish turban in...

Kantakouzene Irene Asanina (w. Irene Palaiologina) Keratsa of Bulgaria Irene Gattilusio Helena Dragaš (w. Anna of Moscow) Sophia of Montferrat Maria of Trebizond...

Jacopo Gattilusio (or Giacomo; died 1428) was the third Lord of Lesbos. He was the eldest son of Francesco II of Lesbos, whom he succeeded as lord of the...

negotiations with Domenico Gattilusio, the Greek populace of Lemnos rose up against Domenico's younger brother Niccolò Gattilusio and submitted to the Sultan...

sons and his nephew Alexius (son of Alexander of Trebizond and Maria Gattilusio, who later became a consort of Mehmed II) on charges of communicating...

Kantakouzene Irene Asanina (w. Irene Palaiologina) Keratsa of Bulgaria Irene Gattilusio Helena Dragaš (w. Anna of Moscow) Sophia of Montferrat Maria of Trebizond...

remained an Ottoman vassal. In 1405 he married Caterina Gattilusio, daughter of Francesco II Gattilusio, ruler of the island of Lesbos, and his mother Milica...

successor) Irene (renamed Maria) Palaiologina, who married Francesco I Gattilusio. According to the contemporary Byzantine historian Nicephorus Gregoras...

because Mehmed feared that she might poison him. Maria Hatun. Born Maria Gattilusio, she was widow of Alexander Komnenos Asen (brother of Anna Hatun's father...