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• Hij is geboren rond 1040 in Byzantium, Turkey.
• Hij is overleden op 18 oktober 1081 in Durazzo, Durres, Albania.

  Killed in battle

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1. Georgios PALAIOLOGOS  1060-???? 

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The Palaiologos and Kantakouzenos dynasties were the last two ruling imperial families in the Byzantine empire. The name Palaiologos is first noted in the primary sources in the late 11th century, but the information available is insufficiently detailed for an accurate family reconstruction before the early 13th century. The family was well-connected, as two of the earliest known family members married into the Dukas and Komnenos families, both these names being adopted by later descendants in memory of this illustrious ancestry. The early members of the Palaiologos family are set out in Chapter 1.A of this document. The Palaiologos dynasty rose to imperial power in the empire at Nikaia where Mikhael Palaiologos engineered his own coronation as co-emperor in 1259 after the accession of Emperor Ioannes IV Batatzes. After Nikaian troops recaptured Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261, Mikhael entered the city and had himself crowned as Emperor Mikhael VIII.
SOURCE: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM%2012611453.htm

Nikephoros Palaiologos (died 18 October 1081) was a Byzantine general of the 11th century.

Nikephoros is the first known member of the Palaiologos family, which would eventually rise to become the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to 1453. He had two sons, George and Nicholas. George Palaiologos also became a general and was one of the chief supporters of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118). Through George and his great-great-grandson Andronikos Palaiologos, the later Palaiologan dynasty draws its descent.

Nikephoros is first attested during the short reign of Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068-1071). A Doukas partisan, he was hostile to Romanos and a member of the opposition around the Caesar John Doukas and Michael Psellos. After the fall of Romanos following the disastrous Battle of Manzikert (1071), Nikephoros was dispatched east against the Norman mercenary Roussel de Bailleul, who had rebelled against imperial rule. After gathering some 6,000 mercenaries in Georgia, he confronted Roussel, but his Georgian troops defected and he was defeated. In 1077, he is recorded as doux of Mesopotamia. Although loyal to the Doukas dynasty and Emperor Michael VII Doukas (r. 1071-1078), he did permit his son George to join the rebellion of Nikephoros Botaneiates, who became emperor as Nikephoros III (r. 1078-1081).

In 1081, he again remained loyal to Botaneiates when the Komnenoi under Alexios Komnenos rose up, even though his son George and the Doukai supported the Komnenian cause. According to Anna Komnene's Alexiad, father and son even met during the Komnenian forces' entry into Constantinople on 1 April 1081, in what Basile Skoulatos describes as one of the "most passionate" scenes of the work. Even then, Nikephoros tried to induce Botaneiates to resist, urging him to give him command of the Varangian Guard and try to defend the imperial palace, but in vain. He then tried to mediate and proposed that Alexios be adopted by Botaneiates and assume de facto control over the Empire, while the latter would retain the honorary position of emperor, but at the insistence of Caesar John Doukas, the Komnenoi rejected this proposal. Eventually, Botaneiates abdicated.

Nikephoros accepted Alexios as his new emperor, and accompanied him in his campaign in the same year against the Normans under Robert Guiscard. He fought and died at the Battle of Dyrrhachium against Guiscard's forces on 18 October 1081.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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