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]

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]

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.

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]

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.

References

• Ancestry of Sultana Nur-Banu (Cecilia Venier-Baffo)