Andronikus Palaiologos

1400 - 1429  (29 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Andronikus Palaiologos
  Birth	1400
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Mar 1428-1429
  as Monk Akakios
  Siblings	7 Siblings
  1. Ioannis Palaiologos, VIII,   b. Dec 1392   d. 31 Oct 1448  (Age 55 years) ▻ Anna Rurik,  m. 1411 ;   Sofia di Montferrato,  m. 19 Jan 1421 ;   Maria Kantakuzene Megale Komnene,  m. Sep 1427   2. Konstantinos Palaiologos,   b. Abt 1393-1397   d. Abt 1400-1405  (Age 8 years) + 3. Theodore Palaiologos,   b. 1395   d. 26 Jun 1448  (Age 53 years) ▻ Cleophe Malatesta de Rimini,  m. 21 Jan 1421 + 4. Andronikus Palaiologos,   b. 1400   d. 4 Mar 1428-1429  (Age 29 years) ▻ + 5. Konstantinos Dragases Palaiologos, XI,   b. 1404   d. 29 May 1453, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire  (Age 49 years) ▻ Maddalena-Theodora Tocco,  m. 1 Jul 1428 ;   Aikatherina Gateliusaina,  m. 27 Jul 1441 ;   NN von Georgien   6. Michael Palaiologos,   b. Abt 1406-140   d. Abt 1409-1410  (Age 127 years) + 7. Demetrios Palaiologos,   b. Abt 1407-1408   d. 1470  (Age 62 years) ▻ Zoe Paraspondylina,  m. 1436 ;   Theodora Asanina,  m. Jun 1441 + 8. Thomas Palaiologos,   b. 1409-1410   d. 12 May 1465, Roma, Latium, Italia  (Age 55 years) ▻ Aikaterina Asanina Zachariaina,  m. Jan 1430
  Person ID	I488431	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Manuel Palaiologos, II,   b. 27 Jun 1350   d. 21 Jul 1425 (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Jelena-Helene Dragas   d. 23 Mar 1450
  Marriage	Abt 10 Feb 1392
  Family ID	F34718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Ioannes Palaiologos   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F196095	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2004

  
  

• Notes

  Despot of Thessaloniki of Thessalonica with the title of despot (despot from 1408 to 1423. Andronikos Palaiologos was a son of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and his wife Helena Dragaš . His maternal grandfather was the Serb prince Constantine Dragaš . His brothers included emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos , as well as Theodore II Palaiologos , Demetrios Palaiologos and Thomas Palaiologos , who ruled as despots in Morea . In childhood Andronikos survived the sickness which killed his brothers Michael and an elder Constantine. He never recovered in full, remaining a man of poor health for the rest of his life. When he was only five years old his father made him a despot (despot and appointed him imperial representative in Thessalonica, where he was succeeding his deceased cousin John VII Palaiologos . After John VIII assumed control of the imperial government in 1421, the Byzantine Empire faced an increasingly hostile Ottoman Empire . Constantinople, and then Thessalonica were besieged in 1422-1423. Under siege Andronikos lost hope and started diplomatic initiatives for the surrender of the city to the Republic of Venice . Venetian troops entered the city against the wishes of the population in 1423. The turn over of Thessalonica to Venice contributed to the outbreak of the first in a series of wars between Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans conquered Thessalonica in 1430. Andronikos became a monk less than a year after surrendering Thessalonica to Venice. He spent the rest of his life in a monastery , dying in 1429.