Helena Palaiologina, Despotess of Serbia photograph

Helena Palaiologina, Despotess Of Serbia

Helena Palaiologina, Despotess Of Serbia Life story


Helena Palaiologina was a Byzantine princess who married Serbian Despot Lazar Branković, who ruled from 1456 until his death in 1458. After Smederevo fell to the Ottoman Turks on 20 June 1459, she fled Serbia for the Greek island of Leukas, where she converted to Catholicism.

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