Leonardo Navigajoso

Leonardo Navigajoso (died 1260) was a Venetian nobleman and second

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ruler of the island of

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. Leonardo inherited the title of '' megadux'' of the

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and the rule of one-half of Lemnos upon the death of his father,

Filocalo Navigajoso Filocalo Navigajoso (died 1214) was a Venice, Venetian (or possibly of mixed Greek and Venetian descentVan Tricht (2011), pp. 112, 130, 144) nobleman and first Latinokratia, Latin ruler of the island of Lemnos (known as Stalimene in Italian) in Gree ...

, in 1214. His two sisters inherited one-quarter of the island each and passed them on to their sons. Leonardo had three sons,

Paolo Paolo is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Paul. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Paolo Art *Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter *Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-American s ...

, who succeeded him, Filippo and Nicolao. All of them died in 1276–1277, when their capital of Kastro was assailed by the Byzantines under

Licario Licario, called Ikarios ( gr, Ἰκάριος) by the Greek chroniclers, was a Byzantine admiral of Italian origin in the 13th century. At odds with the Latin barons (the "triarchs") of his native Euboea, he entered the service of the Byzantine em ...

. Paolo's widow eventually surrendered Kastro and the rest of the island in 1278. 1260 deaths Christians of the Crusades Year of birth unknown Medieval Lemnos Latin Empire people {{Greece-hist-stub