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Name: Ioannes VI KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1295 ^b
Death: 15 Jun 1383 in Mistra ^d

Parents:

Father:
(Unk Son) KANTAKOUENOS Birth: Abt 1264 Death: 1294

Mother:

Theodora PALAIOLOGINA ANGELINA KANTAKOUZENE Death: 6 Jan 1342

Family:
Marriage:

Eirene ASANINA KANTAKOUZENE on Before 1320 .^m1
Eirene ASANINA KANTAKOUZENE Death: After 1363

Children:

Matthias ASANES KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor Birth: After 1325 Death: 24 Jun 1383

Bibliography

Brook, Lindsay L, The Byzantine Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, The Genealogist (APSG), vol 2 no 1 (1981), p3-51. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p[0-9#]*].
Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Hauser der Ubrigen Staaten Europas. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES II #[0-9]*].
Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. III.1 (#1-#200): Herzogs und Grafenhauser des Heiligen Romischen Reiches Andere Europaische Furstenhauser. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES III.1 #[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: (1294/95) [Ref: ES II #181]; abt 1295 [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p16],
parents:: son of Michael Kantakouzenos & Theodora Palaiologina Angelina Kantakouzene [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p16, ES III.1 #197]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p16, ES II #170, ES II #181],
place:: [Ref: ES II #181]

Sources with Information about marriage to Eirene ASANINA KANTAKOUZENE

date:: before 1320 [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p10, Brook ByzantineAnc p16]; vor 1320 [Ref: ES II #170, ES II #181],
child:: [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p16, ES II #181]

Research Notes:
1347-54: Emperor John VI [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p10]

curiously, the paternal ancestry of the first Kantakouzenos emperor, John VI, is obscure. Even the forename of his father is unknown [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p16]

died as the monk Joseph [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p16]

Pedigree of Ioannes VI KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor
                   /-----Michael Kantakouzenos
          /-----Michael Kantakouzenos
         |        |                  /-----Constantinus Angelus
         |        |         /-----Ioannes Doukas
         |        |        |        |                           /-----Manuel Komnenos
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Ioannes Komnenos
         |        |        |        |         /-----Alexis I Komnenos, Emperor Of The East
         |        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Alexanus Charon, Patrician Prefect Of Italy
         |        |        |        |        |         \-----Anna Dalassena
         |        |        |        |        |                  \-----(Unk Dau) Dalassenos
         |        |        |         \-----Theodora Commena
         |        |        |                 |                  /-----Ioannes Doukas, Caesar
         |        |        |                 |         /-----Andronicus Doukas
         |        |        |                 |        |         \-----Eirene Pegonitissa
         |        |        |                  \-----Eirene Doukiana
         |        |        |                          |         /-----Trojan Tzar Of West Bulgaria
         |        |        |                           \-----Maria
         |         \-----(Unk Dau) Doukaina
/-----(Unk Son) KANTAKOUENOS
Ioannes VI KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor
\-----Theodora PALAIOLOGINA ANGELINA KANTAKOUZENE

Descendants of Ioannes VI KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor

1. Ioannes VI KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor m. Eirene ASANINA KANTAKOUZENE

m. Eirene ASANINA KANTAKOUZENE father: Andronikos DOUKAS ANGELOS KOMNENOS PALAIOLOGOS mother: (Unk Dau) GLABAUBA DIYJAUBA TARCGABEUITUSSA

2+ Matthias ASANES KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor m. Eirene PALAIOLOGINA

2nd generation

2. Matthias ASANES KANTAKOUZENOS, Emperor m. Eirene PALAIOLOGINA

m. Eirene PALAIOLOGINA father: Demetrios PALAIOLOGOS mother: Theodora

3+ Theodoros KANTAKOUENOS m.

3rd generation

3. Theodoros KANTAKOUENOS m.

4+ Eirene KANTAKOUZENE, Despoina Of Serbia m. Djuradj/George BRANKOVIC, Despot Of Serbia

4th generation

4. Eirene KANTAKOUZENE, Despoina Of Serbia m. Djuradj/George BRANKOVIC, Despot Of Serbia