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John VI Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzene [1] (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ἄγγελος Παλαιολόγος Καντακουζηνός, Iōánnēs Ángelos Palaiológos Kantakouzēnós; [2] Latin: Iohannes Cantacuzenus; [3] c. 1292 – 15 June 1383 [4]) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman, statesman, and general.
Michael Kantakouzenos was appointed the first epitropos (governor) of the Morea in 1308 and his son, John VI Kantakouzenos, rose to be megas domestikos, regent, and eventually emperor (r. 1347–1354). [8] When Andronikos III Palaiologos died in 1341, his underage son John V Palaiologos (r. 1341–1391) inherited the throne.
After 1347, John VI Kantakouzenos tried to revive the Empire, but met with limited success. Aided by the depopulation brought by about by the Black Death , Dušan and his general Preljub took Kantakouzenos' Macedonian strongholds as well as Epirus and Thessaly in 1347–1348, thereby completing their conquest of the remaining Byzantine lands in ...
John VI Kantakouzenos. A student of Theodore Metochites, another Byzantine polymath, Nicephorus Gregoras (1295–1359/1360), served as chartophylax and imperial envoy during Andronikos II's reign and later became a monk. [10] His most famous work is Roman History, a 37-book account covering the period from 1204 to 1359.
Kantakouzenos had a son, Matthew Kantakouzenos — and any hope of keeping peace between John V and Matthew became more remote as the two grew older and more independent. John V wed Kantakouzenos' daughter, thus becoming his son in law, [20] in a move designed to bind the two families, but it was destined to fail.
In the meantime, John VI Kantakouzenos attempted to consolidate his own dynasty on the imperial throne, marrying his daughter Helena to John V and proclaiming his son Matthew Kantakouzenos as co-emperor. Clearly intending to usurp the throne, a new series of civil wars from 1352 to 1357 were eventually won by John V, deposing the Kantakouzenoi.
The Battle of Peritheorion on 7 July 1345 was between the forces of Momchil, the quasi-independent ruler of Rhodope, and an allied Byzantine-Turkish force headed by John VI Kantakouzenos and Umur Bey of Aydin.
Theodora Kantakouzene (Greek: Θεοδώρα Καντακουζηνή; c. 1330 - c. 1396, called also Theodora Hatun) was a Byzantine princess, the daughter of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos and the second legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Orhan Gazi. [1]