Demetrios Doukas Kabasilas ( el, Δημήτριος Δούκας Καβάσιλας; ) was a senior

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official and magnate of the second half of the 14th century. He was a supporter of

John VI Kantakouzenos John VI Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzene ( el, , ''Iōánnēs Ángelos Palaiológos Kantakouzēnós''; la, Johannes Cantacuzenus; – 15 June 1383) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman, statesman, and general. He served as grand domestic under An ...

during the

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, and forced to flee from

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in 1342, when the radical Zealot party took power in the city. He was captured and imprisoned by Kantakouzenos' opponents, but after the Kantakouzenist victory in 1347, he was released and rewarded with extensive lands in

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, near Thessalonica, and the title of ''

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''. His exact origin, and particularly the reason for his use of the surname "

Doukas The House of Doukas, Latinized as Ducas ( el, Δούκας; feminine: Doukaina/Ducaena, Δούκαινα; plural: Doukai/Ducae, Δοῦκαι), from the Latin title ''dux'' ("leader", "general", Hellenized as 'ðouks'', is the name of a Byzant ...

", are unclear; his father was probably named George Kabasilas. In the documents that attest to his career, Demetrios appears to have been associated with the army. He was promoted to ''

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'' in 1369, and was addressed by

Demetrios Kydones Demetrios Kydones, Latinized as Demetrius Cydones or Demetrius Cydonius ( el, Δημήτριος Κυδώνης; 1324, Thessalonica – 1398, Crete), was a Byzantine Greeks, Greek theologian, translator, author and influential statesman, who s ...

in a letter as late as 1386/7. He married Anna Laskarina and had at least two sons, one of whom was the landowner Manuel Kabasilas.

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Demetrios Doukas Demetrios Doukas of Crete (, ; c.1480–c.1527) was a professor of Greek in Spain and teacher of many Spanish humanists. Originally a member of the Greek community in Venice (dating from the Fall of Constantinople, 1453), Ducas moved to Spain a ...