Caterina Gattilusio
Caterina Gattilusio (died August 1442) was the second wife of
She was a daughter of
The following year Constantine sailed for Lesbos with Sphrantzes and Loukas Notaras, and in August the marriage took place at Mytilene in August, then the next year Constantine sailed to the Morea to resume his duties.[2] However, the marriage lasted about a year: Constantine, returning to Constantinople in July 1442, stopped at Mytilene to collect his Empress, and proceeded to Lemnos where he was caught by, as Sphrantes describes, "the whole Turkish fleet". Although the Turkish fleet left after a few days, Caterina fell ill and suffered a miscarriage that August. She died not long afterwards at Palaiokastron on Lemnos.[3] Constantine never remarried.
References
- ^ Donald M. Nicol, The Immortal Emperor (Cambridge: Canto Paperbacks, 1994), p. 17
- ^ Nicol, Immortal Emperor, p. 18
- ^ The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: a Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401-1477, translated by Marios Philippides (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1980), p. 53
External links
- Marek, Miroslav. "Gattilusio family". Genealogy.EU.
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