Английская Википедия:Carlo III Tocco
Шаблон:DistinguishШаблон:Infobox royaltyCarlo III Tocco (1464–1518) was the titular despot of Epirus and count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos from the death of his father Leonardo III Tocco Шаблон:Circa to his own death in 1518. Carlo lived in Rome, where he received pensions from both the Papacy and the Kingdom of Naples. As an adult, Carlo worked as a military officer, serving both the Papacy and Emperor Maximilian I.
Carlo was deeply bitter about the loss of his family's lands in Greece. He married Andronica Arianiti, daughter of Constantine Arianiti, another claimant to lands in Greece, and presented himself not only as the head of the former Epirote despotic family, but also as the heir of the Serbian Branković dynasty and the Byzantine imperial Palaiologos dynasty (though no titles were claimed).
Biography
Carlo III Tocco was the eldest son of Leonardo III Tocco,Шаблон:Sfn born on the island of Lefkada in 1464.Шаблон:Sfn Carlo's mother, Milica Branković, was the daughter of Lazar Branković, despot of Serbia, and Helena Palaiologina, a daughter of Thomas Palaiologos, the youngest brother of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Carlo's father was the last ruling despot of Epirus, losing his last lands in Greece in 1479 to conquest by the Ottoman Empire.Шаблон:Sfn Leonardo, his wife Francesca Marzano (Milica having died in 1464), two of his brothers, and Carlo fled to Italy, where they were received by King Ferdinand I of Naples, the uncle of Leonardo's new wife.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Although Leonardo was granted pensions and fiefs in Italy by Ferdinand,Шаблон:Sfn they were not prosperous enough to sustain him, his entourage and his family, and were also far from the military aid Leonardo had expected to retake his Greek lands.Шаблон:Sfn It was not long before Leonardo found himself in considerably debt, and had lost most of the fiefs he had received.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 29 February 1480, Leonardo, his brothers and Carlo arrived in Rome,Шаблон:Sfn seeking money from Pope Sixtus IV.Шаблон:Sfn Leonardo was given a more generous pension of 2000 gold pieces in Rome, and hired a house between the Botteghe Oscure and the Via Pellicciaria.Шаблон:Sfn After Leonardo's death at some point in the pontificate of Pope Alexander VI (Шаблон:Reign1492–1503),Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Carlo continued to live in Rome, and served there as captain of the Sacred College.Шаблон:Sfn He lived in a house in the Via di S. Marco and enjoying pensions provided by both the pope and the Kingdom of Naples.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The generosity of Naples was not as great as it could have been, given that Ferdinand I, who had promised Leonardo that he would treat Carlo as his own son,Шаблон:Sfn had been deposed by King Charles VIII of France, who thereafter took control of the Neapolitan kingdom.Шаблон:Sfn
Carlo was deeply bitter about the fate of his family's lands in Greece and was discontent over their loss in status and power. In one lamenting document, Carlo is recorded to have referred to his family's fate as a "calamity and rejection of fortune". In the same text, he referred to himself as an heir and descendant of "the despots of Romania and ArtaШаблон:Efn [and] the most serene houses of Serbia, Komnenoi and Palaiologoi, both imperial houses of Constantinople".Шаблон:Sfn The claim by Carlo and his descendants that they represented not only the Epirote despotal family, but also the Serbian royal dynasty and the Byzantine imperial one,Шаблон:Sfn was not illegitimate given that they represented the heirs of Thomas Palaiologos in the female line.Шаблон:Sfn The last fully documented and certain male-line descendants of Thomas Palaiologos died off in the early 16th century,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn and Helena Palaiologina, Carlo's grandmother, was Thomas's oldest daughter.Шаблон:Sfn Out of Helena's three daughters, Carlo's mother was the eldest to have children.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
After his father's death, Carlo also fought in the armies of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.Шаблон:Sfn Carlo died in his house in the Via S. MarcoШаблон:Sfn in 1518,Шаблон:Sfn during the pontificate of Pope Leo X (Шаблон:Reign1513–1521).Шаблон:Sfn Carlo had married Andronica Arianiti, a daughter of Constantine Arianiti, self-proclaimed titular 'Prince of Macedonia' and 'Duke of Achaea'.Шаблон:Sfn Carlo's claims were continued by his and Andronica's only child, the son Leonardo IV Tocco, born at some point in the 1510s.Шаблон:Sfn
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