Laskarids

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The dynasty of the Byzantine emperors in Nikaia between 1204 and 1258 from the Laskaris family (Λάσκαρις) is referred to as the Laskarids .

With the conquest of Constantinople and the establishment of the Latin Empire by the Crusaders expelled from their capital in 1204, Theodor I. Laskaris , son-in-law of the former Emperor Alexios III, succeeded. to establish his rule in Nikaia. His successor was his son-in-law John III. Dukas Batatzes , whose son Theodor II again took the name Laskaris. Theodors underage son John IV. Laskaris became after three years of his regent Michael VIII. From the family Palaiologosdeposed and died blinded in captivity. His sisters were married to Italian and Bulgarian foreigners in order not to allow their descendants to become competitors of the children of Michael VIII (from the new dynasty of palaeologists ).

Laskarid dynasty in Nikaia

Family relationships

Irene Doukaina Laskarina
  1. NN
    1. Theodor I. Laskaris , Emperor 1204–1222, ⚭ 1) Anna, daughter of Emperor Alexios III. , ⚭ 2) Philippa, ⚭ 3) Marie de Courtenay
      1. Irene Laskarina ⚭ 2) Johannes III. Dukas Batatzes , Emperor 1222–1254
        1. Theodor II. Laskaris , Emperor 1254–1258 ⚭ Elena Assenina of Bulgaria, daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Assen II.
          1. Irene Doukaina Laskarina ⚭ Constantine († 1277) King of the Bulgarians
          2. Maria ⚭ Nikephoros Angelos of Epirus († 1296)
          3. Theodora ⚭ Mathieu de Mons, Baron of Veligosti
          4. Eudoxia ⚭ Pietro I. Ventimiglia , Count of Tenda
          5. (possibly illegitimate) daughter NN ⚭ Svetoslav, Despot of Bulgaria
          6. John IV. Laskaris , Emperor 1258–1261
      2. Maria ⚭ Béla IV , King of Hungary
      3. Eudokia ⚭ Anseau de Cayeux , regent of Constantinople
    2. Georg Laskaris
    3. Alexios Laskaris
    4. Isaac Laskaris
    5. Michael Laskaris
    6. Manuel Laskaris

More family members

Laskarids in Italy

Eudoxia, the fourth daughter of Theodor II, married Pietro I of Ventimiglia , Count of Tenda , in 1269 . Their children took the name Lascaris di Ventimiglia and established the older line of this Ligurian family. They remained Counts of Tenda until 1501 , which then fell to a branch line of the House of Savoy . The most famous of this family was Beatrice († 1418), daughter of Wilhelm Lascaris di Ventimiglia, Count of Tenda; in 1412 she married the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti . Her tragic fate was dealt with in the opera Beatrice di Tenda by Vincenzo Bellini in 1833 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://genealogy.euweb.cz/byzant/byzant7.html#ET2

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