Family
By his wife Irene Palaiologina, Matthew Asanes Kantakouzenos had several children including:
- John Kantakouzenos, despotēs
- Demetrios Kantakouzenos, sebastokratōr
- Theodora Kantakouzene
- Helena Kantakouzene, who married Count Luis Fadrique of Salona
- Maria Kantakouzene, who married John Laskaris Kalopheros
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Of all the vices, lewdness is the worst; of all the virtues, family duty is the first.”
—Chinese proverb.
Rhyme.
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—François Rabelais (14941553)
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Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)