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- Demetrius or Demetrios of Montferrat (Italian: Demetrio di Monferrato; Greek: Δημήτριος Μομφερρατικός, Dēmētrios Momferratikos; 1205–1230) was King of Thessalonica from 1207 to 1224.
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Demetrius or Demetrios of Montferrat (Italian: Demetrio di Monferrato; Greek: Δημήτριος Μομφερρατικός, Dēmētrios Momferratikos; 1205–1230) was King of Thessalonica from 1207 to 1224. Life. Demetrius was the son of Marquis Boniface of Montferrat by Margaret of Hungary, the widow of Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos.
Reuniting Thessalonica, inherited by Boniface's Greek son Demetrius, with Montferrat became a goal of Boniface's Italian heirs, though nothing ever came of their endeavours. In the thirteenth century, Montferrat waffled between the Guelph and Ghibelline parties under Boniface II and William VII .
Demetrius or Demetrios of Montferrat (Italian language: Demetrio di Monferrato Greek: Δημήτριος Μομφερρατικός, Dēmētrios Momferratikos), (Thessalonica, 1205 – 1230 in Amalfi), was king of Thessalonica from 1207 to 1224. Demetrius was the son of Marquis Boniface of Montferrat by Margaret of...
Who was Demetrius of Montferrat? Demetrius or Demetrios of Montferrat, was king of Thessalonica from 1207 to 1224. Demetrius was the son of Marquis Boniface of Montferrat by Margaret of Hungary, the widow of Emperor Isaac II Angelos.
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Margaret was the eldest daughter of Béla III of Hungary and his first wife Agnes of Antioch. She was a younger sister of Emeric, King of Hungary. Her younger siblings were Andrew II of Hungary and Constance of Hungary. Two other siblings, Solomon and Stephen, are mentioned in the standard reference work on the genealogy of medieval European aristoc...
In January 1186, Margaret married the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos, who wanted a politically strategic alliance with Hungaryin order to strengthen his claim to the throne. Upon this marriage, Margaret took the baptismal name "Maria". With Isaac, she had two sons: 1. Manuel Angelos (died 1212), he was evidently the elder son, being contemplate...
Margaret's husband Isaac died in February 1204, "whose end was accelerated by the fate of his son", who was "strangled in his dungeon after poison had failed to do its work". When Boniface of Montferrat, commander of the land forces at the taken of Constantinople, took the Boukoleon Palace, it was found that Margaret had taken refuge there alongsid...
Boniface left a will designating Demetrius as his successor in Thessalonica under the regency of his mother. His son William of Montferrat, by an earlier marriage, succeeded to the Marquisate of Montferrat. The barons however, knowing that a strong government was necessary, constituted themselves a council of regency for the infant. In 1207, on his...
Margaret fled to Hungary apparently leaving her son Demetrius in Thessalonica. She married thirdly Nicholas I of Saint Omer, who had accompanied his uncle on the Crusade and was granted a fief in Doris. He is also called "Lord of Boeotia". With Nicholas, Margaret was apparently the mother of his two known sons: 1. Bela of Saint Omer 2. William of S...
Margaret was still living in 1223. Her exact death date and place, and burial location are apparently unknown.
Demetrius or Demetrios of Montferrat (Italian: Demetrio di Monferrato; Greek: Δημήτριος Μομφερρατικός, Dēmētrios Momferratikos; 1205–1230) was King of Thessalonica from 1207 to 1224. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Demetrius of Montferrat has received more than 37,175 page views.
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