Family
By his first wife Maria, the daughter of Emperor Theodore II Doukas Laskaris, Nikephoros I had one daughter:
- Catherine, who married Infante Frederick of Castile
By his second wife Anna, the niece of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, Nikephoros I had four children:
- Thamar, who married Philip I of Taranto, a son of King Charles II of Naples.
- Michael, he was a hostage at Naples in 1291. He presumably died before his father.
- Thomas, who succeeded as ruler of Epirus.
- Maria, who married Count John I Orsini of Cephalonia (1304–1317); their sons Nicholas Orsini and John II Orsini became despots in Epirus.
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