Gattilusi, Eugenia (fl. late 1390s)

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Gattilusi, Eugenia (fl. late 1390s)

Greco-Italian noblewoman. Born into the Greco-Italian Gattilusi family, lords of the Isle of Lesbos; flourished in the 1390s; married her cousin John VII Paleologus, emperor of Nicaea (r. 1390).

From the Greco-Italian Gattilusi family, lords of the Isle of Lesbos, Eugenia married her cousin John VII Paleologus shortly after the end of his reign. It is not known whether she had any children who survived infancy.

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