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    Sophia Fominichna Palaiologina or Paleologue (Russian: София Фоминична Палеолог, romanized: Sofiya Fominichna Paleolog; born Zoe Palaiologina; Medieval...
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  • Sophia (Russian: Софи́я, romanized: Sofíya) is a Russian historical drama television series about Sophia Palaiologina, Grand Duchess of Moscow. The film...
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  • book in the series. The trilogy is wrapped up with another novel, Sophia Palaiologina. From Byzantium to Russia, which refers to a princess of the Palaiologos...
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    Duchess of Lithuania Sophia Palaiologina (1455–1503), Grand Duchess of Moscow Sophia Stuart (1606), daughter of James VI and I Sophia of Hanover (1630–1714)...
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    satisfied with the title of grand prince at home. Through marriage to Sophia Palaiologina, Ivan made the double-headed eagle Russia's coat of arms, and adopted...
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  • Sophia of Montferrat (or Sophia Palaiologina, Greek: Σοφία Παλαιολογίνα; died 21 August 1434) was a Byzantine empress by marriage to John VIII Palaiologos...
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  • Helena Palaiologina (Greek: Ἑλένη Παλαιολογίνα; 23 April 1442 – c.  1469), known also as Helena Hatun, was the daughter and only child of Demetrios Palaiologos...
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    Vasili III by his second wife, Elena Glinskaya. Vasili's mother, Sophia Palaiologina, was a Byzantine princess of the Palaiologos family. She was a daughter...
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    Maria Palaiologina (Greek: Μαρία Παλαιολογίνα) was the daughter of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1258–1282) who became the wife of...
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    1537) was the youngest son of Ivan III of Russia by his second wife Sophia Palaiologina. From 1519, his appanages included Volokolamsk and Staritsa. When...
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    Palaiologos (redirect from Palaiologina)
    Palaiologoi; Ancient Greek: Παλαιολόγος, pl. Παλαιολόγοι; female version Palaiologina; Ancient Greek: Παλαιολογίνα), also found in English-language literature...
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  • Maria Palaiologina (Greek: Μαρία Παλαιολογίνα; died 1505) was, according to Russian sources, a daughter of Andreas Palaiologos and the niece of Sophia Palaiologina...
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    Helena Palaiologina (Greek: Ελένη Παλαιολογίνα; Serbian: Јелена Палеолог/Jelena Paleolog; 1431 – 7 November 1473) was a Byzantine princess who married...
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    the library include: The collection formed part of the dowry of Sophia Palaiologina, the second wife of Ivan III (married in 1472) and a member of the...
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    of the megas domestikos Andronikos Palaiologos by Theodora Angelina Palaiologina, the granddaughter of Emperor Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina...
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    Possessor. Following the expansion of his realm and his marriage to Sophia Palaiologina, the grand prince Ivan III took the title of sovereign and claimed...
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  • Irene Palaiologina (Greek: Ειρήνη Παλαιολογίνα, Eirēnē Palaiologina), (c. 1315 – after 1341) was Empress regnant of Trebizond from April 6, 1340, to July...
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    marriage of Ivan III to the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaiologina, in 1472. Through this marriage, Ivan III was formally entitled to...
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    and Sophia of Lithuania. She died in August 1417 of plague. The second marriage, arranged by his father Manuel II and Pope Martin V, was to Sophia of Montferrat...
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    Rostislavovich and all his siblings are descendants of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina through their paternal grandmother, Alexandra, Princess Galitzine...
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    his own hands. Although emperors were traditionally crowned in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, there was historical precedent for smaller and local...
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    include: Andronikos IV Palaiologos (2 April 1348 – 28 June 1385); Irene Palaiologina (c. 1349 – after 1362), who married her first cousin Halil Bey, son of...
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  • Irene Palaiologina (Greek: Εἰρήνη Παλαιολογίνα, Bulgarian: Ирина Палеологина) was the eldest daughter of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and...
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    number given by George Sphrantzes. These four children were: Helena Palaiologina (1431 – 7 November 1473), the older of the couple's two daughters, Helena...
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  • Irene Palaiologina (Greek: Εἰρήνη Παλαιολογίνα; 1327 – after 1356) was a Byzantine princess and Bulgarian empress consort. She was also known as Maria...
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    Helena Palaiologina (Greek: Ἑλένη Παλαιολογίνα; 3 February 1428 – 11 April 1458) was a Byzantine princess of the Palaiologos family, who became Queen of...
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    surviving child of Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow, and his second wife Sophia Palaiologina, niece of the last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos....
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    III 17. Maria of Borovsk 4. Vasili III 18. Thomas Palaiologos 9. Sophia Palaiologina 19. Catherine Zaccaria 2. Ivan IV 20. Lev Borisovich Glinsky 10....
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    was annulled and Solomonia was forced to take the veil under the name of Sophia at the Nativity Monastery of Moscow. She was then moved to the Intercession...
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  • Theodora Angelina Palaiologina (Greek: Θεοδώρα Άγγελίνα Παλαιολογίνα) was a Byzantine noblewoman and mother of the future Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII...
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