
Paleologo Zaccaria ( ? –1314) was the
Lord of Chios and
Phocaea
Phocaea or Phokaia (Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek: Φώκαια, ''Phókaia''; modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Ancient Greece, Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Colonies in antiquity, Greek colonists from Phoc ...
, as well as other
Aegean islands from 1307 until his death.
Paleologo was the son of
Benedetto I Zaccaria
Benedetto I Zaccaria (c. 1235 – 1307) was an Italian admiral of the Republic of Genoa. He was the Lord of Phocaea (from 1288) and first Lord of Chios (from 1304), and the founder of Zaccaria fortunes in Byzantine and Latin Greece. He was, at d ...
Lord of Chios and Pocaea; his mother was a Palaiologina, sister of the Emperor
Michael VIII
Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (; 1224 – 11 December 1282) reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1261 until his death in 1282, and previously as the co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261. Michael VIII was the founder of th ...
. His first name is unknown, as is the first name of his mother. On the death of his father, he succeeded him.
The brothers
Benedetto II Zaccaria and
Martino Zaccaria were his sons (or his cousins, sons of Nicolino Zaccaria).
Sources
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Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) ''A History of the Crusades: Volume III — The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries''. Harry W. Hazard, editor. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1975.
*Setton, Kenneth M. ''Catalan Domination of Athens 1311–1380''. Revised edition. Variorum: London, 1975.
Year of birth unknown
1314 deaths
Christians of the Crusades
Paleologo
Paleologo
Palaiologos dynasty
14th-century lords in Europe
13th-century Genoese people
14th-century Genoese people
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