Angelo Sanudo
Angelo Sanudo (died 1262) was the second Duke of the Archipelago from 1227, when his father, Marco I, died, until his own death.[1]
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[edit] Family
Angelo was a son of Marco I Sanudo.[2] According to "The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566)" (1908) by William Miller, Marco I married ... Laskaraina, a woman of the Laskaris family. Miller identified her as a sister of Constantine Laskaris and Theodore I Laskaris. He based this theory on his own interpretation of Italian chronicles. The "Dictionnaire historique et Généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople" (1983) by Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza rejected the theory, based on the silence of Byzantine primary sources. [3]
[edit] Reign
In 1235, Angelo sent a naval squadron to the defence of Constantinople, where the Emperor John of Brienne was being besieged by John III Doukas Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. By Angelo's further intervention, a truce was signed between the two empires for two years.
Angelo was succeeded by his son Marco II.
[edit] Marriage and children
According to Miller, Angelo married "a French dame of high degree", daughter of Macaire de Saint-Ménéhould. In 1262, his wife reportedly welcomed Baldwin II of Courtenay who was attempting to reclaim the throne of the Latin Empire.[4] They had at least three children:[5]
- Marco II Sanudo.
- Marino Sanudo, Lord of Paros and Antiparos. Married Porzia da Verona. She was a daughter of William da Verona, Triarch of Negroponte. "Les Seigneurs Tierciers de Négrepont" (1893) by Louis, Count of Mas Latrie, considered her mother to be William's second wife, Simone of Villehardouin. [6] Simone was reportedly a daughter of William II of Villehardouin. She was either illegitimate or a daughter of his first wife, Agnes de Toucy. [7] The chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines reported Agnes to have been a daughter of Narjot de Toucy and his first wife Branaina. Branaina was a daughter of Theodore Branas and Agnes of France. [8]
- A daughter. Married Paolo Navigajoso, Lord of Lemnos. Her husband resisted attempts by the Byzantine Empire to annex his island. He died in 1277. She took over the defense of the island but abandoned her efforts in 1278. [9]
[edit] Sources
- Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) A History of the Crusades: Volume II — The Later Crusades, 1189 – 1311. Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, editors. University of Wisconsin Press: Milwaukee, 1969.
[edit] References
- ^ Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 549
- ^ Profile of Marco I in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
- ^ Profile of "Laskaraina" in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
- ^ William Miller, "The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566)" (1908), page 574
- ^ Profile of Marco I and his children in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
- ^ Profile of Guglielmo da Verona and his children in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
- ^ Profile of Simone in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
- ^ Profile of Narjot and his children in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
- ^ William Miller, "The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566)" (1908), pages 574 and 577
| Preceded by Marco I |
Duke of the Archipelago 1227–1262 |
Succeeded by Marco II |
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