Giorgio de' Buondelmonti ( gr, Γεώργιος Μπουοντελμόντι, 1411–53) was briefly the

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of Ioannina in 1411. Giorgio was the son of

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by his third wife, Jevdokija Balšić. When his father died on February 6, 1411, his mother attempted to maintain control of Ioannina in the name of her infant son. Jevdokija was not popular with the local nobility. When they learned that she was seeking to marry a

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n nobleman, they promptly deposed her and her son just 20 days after his accession, on February 26, 1411, and surrendered their city to

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. Giorgio survived until at least 1453, and his name appears in various

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documents.

References

* * * * George C. Soulis, ''The Serbs and Byzantium'', Athens, 1995. {{DEFAULTSORT:Buondelmonti, Giorgio De Year of death unknown 15th-century deaths 15th-century despots of Epirus Medieval rulers of Epirus Year of birth unknown Medieval child rulers Rulers deposed as children 15th-century Italian nobility Medieval Ioannina