What happened to the Imperial Byzantine Family after the collapse of the empire?
score:14
Byzantine Empire was not formally a hereditary monarchy. There was no law which regulated inheritance in Byzantine Empire.
Nevertheless the offsprings of the imperial family sold the right to claim the throne to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Spanish monarchs. This was inherited by Charles V, Holy Roman emperor. Yet he never styled himself a Byzantine or Constantinopolian emperor. Being a Roman Emperor was a part of his title though after he was crowned Roman Emperor by the Pope (he was the last man to receive this title ever).
Upvote:-1
yes, the head of the Imperial House lives in Moscow. He is H.I.H Prince Vladimir Gorshkov-Cantacuzene. check the website www.royal-byzantium.com
Regards
Upvote:0
see my several answers to this question "Greek Revolution- where did the greeks look for descendants of the byzantine dynasty?"
Greek Revolution: Where did the Greeks look for descendants of the Byzantine dynasties?
Upvote:0
A short answer is that the male line descendants died out in a few generations as far as is known, but several Palaiologos princesses married into other families and their descendants lasted after the last known male lineage descendants of the Palaiologos dynasty.
Some of the female line descndnts exist today. Thus going by male preference primogeniture the rightful heir of the Palaiologos dynasty is probably Luigi Serra, 11th Duke of Cassano.
http://historum.com/european-history/121359-heirs-byzantine-empire.html1
Upvote:11
In addition to Anixx's answer, check out Andreas Palaiologos - the oldest newphew of Constantine (the last emperor). Looks like he sold his "rights" to the Byzantine throne twice, both to France and Spain. And his younger brother sold them to... gasp... the Ottomans. Well, they had to get some money for high living.
Which brings us to another aspect: Mehmed II claimed that he actually was the new Roman Emperor, or Kayser-i Rum as he called it, by right of conquest. (He did have a point there). I know that Suleiman the Magnificent called himself so as well (in a letter to Charles V) but wikipedia, linked to in "claimed" above, a ssertsthat later sultans dropped the title.
More post
- 📝 What did US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart study as an undergraduate?
- 📝 Did Amadeo Bordiga tell off Stalin this way?
- 📝 What was the ratio women to men after World War 2 in the Soviet Union
- 📝 Who is 'Chlodebaudo/Chlodebaud' in the Merovingian-era Clovis I genealogy & Charlemagne ancestry, supposedly mentioned in a Salic Law manuscript?
- 📝 River transportation before steam- did it always require beasts of burden?
- 📝 Why was the morale of El Cid's troops always so high?
- 📝 What conditions have led to Abrahmism splitting into different religions sometimes, but not always?
- 📝 Who is this Asian figure?
- 📝 Did USS Buck (DD-761) send the message “Temper, Temper”?
- 📝 Apart from the obvious ones, what were a single free woman's job options in the U.S. in the end of the 18th Century?
- 📝 When was divorce made illegal again in Ireland?
- 📝 Did a senator try to oust Woodrow Wilson from office?
- 📝 When did the Commonwealth of England start being considered a Republic?
- 📝 When did Spain first come to exist as a country called Spain (Espana)?
- 📝 Who were Alexander's historians that wrote about Indian social conditions?
- 📝 How much of a effect did linguistic relativism play in ancient Europe?
- 📝 What happened to horses when cars became popular?
- 📝 What are some cases where a country bought land from another country, other than the United States?
- 📝 Why and when did Catholic rules change to dissuade Catholics from marrying protestants?
- 📝 Why do people (governments) hang on to the idea of East and West?
- 📝 What were the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra in the War of the Spanish Succession?
- 📝 Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It?
- 📝 Did any African-American slaves with Jewish owners ever adopt Judaism?
- 📝 How much food value is a horse to a cavalryman?
- 📝 How did encasillado work?
- 📝 How did western saloons lock up for the night?
- 📝 How accurate is the book "Rifleman Dodd"?
- 📝 What did the technologies of von Braun and other members of the Third Reich contribute to America's lead in the race to moon against Russia?
- 📝 What are Kottabos players holding in their left hand?
- 📝 Where did 15th century English serfs live?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What happened to the Imperial Byzantine Family after the collapse of the empire?
- 📝 What happened to cities in the Western Roman empire after the fall of Rome?
- 📝 What happened in Rome, when the western empire "fell"?
- 📝 Were there any Germans in Japan after the surrender of Germany in May, 1945 and if so, what happened to them?
- 📝 What happened to all the nuclear material being smuggled after the fall of the USSR?
- 📝 What happened to the Wehrmacht after the German surrender?
- 📝 What happened to the British convicts transported to America after the American Revolution?
- 📝 What happened to the S.A. (Sturmabteilung; "Stormtroopers") after The Night of the Long Knives?
- 📝 What were the insignia of the Western Roman Empire and what happened to them?
- 📝 What happened to the Heart of Atlanta motel after the ruling of Heart of Atlanta v. United States?
- 📝 What happened north of the Alps after the Romans "left"?
- 📝 After World War II, what happened to the Soviet industrial facilities that had been evacuated?
- 📝 What happened to the holders of German war bonds after WW1?
- 📝 What happened to the colonial estates belonging to loyalists after the American Revolution?
- 📝 What happened to Iraq's debts after the US toppled the government in 2003?
- 📝 What did Russia do about Caucasus oil after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What happened to the Swiss troops in French service after August 10, 1792?
- 📝 Did the US's push to dissolve the imperial preference become an underlying reason for the collapse of the British empire
- 📝 What happened to insurance companies after the 9/11 attacks?
- 📝 Surrender Ceremonies at the End of WW2: What happened after documents signed?
- 📝 Why did the Western Roman Empire collapse but not the Eastern Roman Empire?
- 📝 At what point was the Byzantine Empire's decline irreversible?
- 📝 What happened to these buildings near the Seine?
- 📝 What date does a 1738 British author intend by "soon after the revolution"?
- 📝 What role did the Eastern Roman Empire play in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
- 📝 What happened to US's Lend-Lease machinery given to the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What really happened to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?
- 📝 What was the scale of eroticism in Byzantine theater?
- 📝 What prevented the Mongolian Empire from expanding into Europe?
- 📝 What East German laws and regulations were extended to the West after unification?