Marco II Sanudo

Marco II Sanudo (died ca. 1303) was the third Duke of the Archipelago from 1262 to his death.[1]

Family

Marco was the eldest son and successor of Angelo Sanudo. According to The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566) (1908) by William Miller, his mother was "a French dame of high degree", daughter of Macaire de Saint-Ménéhould. In 1262, his mother reportedly welcomed Baldwin II of Courtenay who was attempting to reclaim the throne of the Latin Empire.[2]

His paternal grandfather and namesake was Marco I Sanudo.[3] According to Miller, Marco II's maternal grandmother was "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.[4]

Reign

Marco lost some of his islands to the Byzantine Empire early in his reign, but he recovered them two decades later, in time to leave the whole of the original duchy to his son William I.

Children

Marco II had at least two known children. The identity of his wife is unknown. The children were:[5]

Sources

References

  1. Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 549
  2. William Miller, "The Latins in the Levant. A History of Frankish Greece (1204-1566)" (1908), page 574
  3. Cawley, Charles, Profile of Marco I and his children, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012,
  4. Cawley, Charles, Profile of "Laskaraina", Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012,
  5. Cawley, Charles, Profile of Marco II, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012,
Preceded by
Angelo
Duke of the Archipelago
1262–1303
Succeeded by
William I
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