George II Ghisi ( it, Giorgio Ghisi; died c. 1344/5 or 1352) was a

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feudal lord in medieval

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, lord of

Tinos Tinos ( el, Τήνος ) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of and a 2011 census population of 8,636 inhabitants. Tinos ...

and

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and Triarch of Negroponte. He was the son of

Bartholomew II Ghisi Bartholomew II Ghisi ( it, Bartolommeo Ghisi; died 1341) was a Latinokratia, Latin feudal lord in medieval Greece, lord of Tinos and Mykonos, Triarch of Negroponte and Grand Constable of the Principality of Achaea. Biography Bartholomew was the s ...

. In 1326/27, as part of his father's

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with the Catalans of the

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, George married Simona of Aragon, the daughter of the Catalan

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. As Simona's dowry, the Ghisi received half the castellany of the Castle of Saint Omer in Thebes, which they held until its destruction in c. 1331/34. Bartholomew II died in 1341, and George succeeded him. In 1343, at the request of

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, he armed a galley conjointly with

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(duke of

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) and Balzana Gozzadini (regent of the two other thirds of Negroponte) to join the first

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. According to

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, his disappearance from the sources after the events of 1344/45 could suggest that he may have participated in person and died in the fighting, as did the leaders Henry of Asti,

Martino Zaccaria Martino Zaccaria was the Lord of Chios from 1314 to 1329, ruler of several other Aegean islands, and baron of Veligosti–Damala and Chalandritsa in the Principality of Achaea. He distinguished himself in the fight against Turkish corsairs in ...

and the Venetian admiral Pietro Zeno. However, the date of 1352 was proposed (without justification) by

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in the 19th century.''Ghisi'', in Ersch and Gruber encyclopedy vol 66 pp 336 sq He was followed by his son,

Bartholomew III Ghisi Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو� ...

, who was still a minor, under the regency of his mother Simona until 1358.

References

1352 deaths Lords of Tinos and Mykonos Triarchs of Negroponte Ghisi family Medieval Thebes Year of birth unknown 14th-century Venetian people {{Greece-hist-stub