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Thomas Palaiologos
Thomas Palaiologos was a Byzantine prince, youngest brother of Constantine XI, and despot of the Morea from 1428. He completed the conquest of the Latin Principality of Achaea in 1430–1432 and ruled the Peloponnese jointly with his brother Demetrios. When Mehmed II overran the Morea in 1460 he fled to Italy, placing Monemvasia under Pope Pius II, and died in Rome in 1465.
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