Theodore Komnenos Palaiologos ( el, Θεόδωρος Κομνηνός Παλαιολόγος; ca. 1263 – after 1310) was a son of the

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Michael VIII Palaiologos Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus ( el, Μιχαὴλ Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος, Mikhaēl Doukas Angelos Komnēnos Palaiologos; 1224 – 11 December 1282) reigned as the co-emperor of the Empire ...

(

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ed 1259–1282) and his consort, Theodora Palaiologina. He was born ca. 1263, and was the youngest of Michael VIII's sons. In 1293, he was intended to wed the daughter of

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, but as his brother, Emperor

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, denied him the title of Despot, he declined and wedded a daughter of the ''

pinkernes ''Pinkernes'' ( grc, πιγκέρνης, pinkernēs), sometimes also ''epinkernes'' (, ''epinkernēs''), was a high Byzantine court position. The term derives from the Greek verb (''epikeránnymi'', "to mix ine), and was used to denote the cup-b ...

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instead. In 1295 he was at

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when the revolt of

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broke out, and was seized and imprisoned by the rebel until the latter's defeat. In 1305 he fought against the

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at the

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. He is last mentioned in 1310 as one of the witnesses to a treaty with the

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* 1260s births 14th-century deaths 13th-century Byzantine people 14th-century Byzantine people

Theodore Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory * Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Sask ...

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