Dorino II. Gattilusio

Dorino II Gattilusio (also Dorino Gattilusio ) (* after 1400; † after 1488 ) was from 1455 to 1456, the last Lord of Ainos. He came from the prestigious Genoese patrician family Gattilusio and was the younger son of the Lord Palamede Gattilusio of Ainos.

Since his older brother Giorgio was already deceased in 1449, Dorino II took over after his father's death in 1455 the rule Aenos. It led to succession disputes with the widow Giorgios and their children. Giorgois widow complaining for their children's inheritance rights of the firstborn son of Palamede, especially since this could have been his father's lifetime over the possessions. Since there was no amicable settlement between Dorino II and his brother's widow, they turned to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan was after the end of the Byzantine Empire the lord of Christian men in the Aegean. The Messenger of Giorgios widow accused to operate Dorino II before the Sultan, the detachment of the Ottoman suzerainty. Sultan Mehmed II saw it as a welcome reason to bring the then strategically important city of Ainos in his possession. In January 1456 he broke even on with an army to Ainos. Dorino II held at this time on the belonging to his possession island of Samothrace. The leaderless city Ainos was passed by the town elders to the promise of sparing the city and residents without a fight to the Sultan. The Sultan left it to plunder the palace of Dorino II and the houses of his followers. He also gave the order to fill the also belong to Dorino II rule islands of Samothrace and Imbros area. Dorino II tried negotiating with the Sultan, although at least the return of Samothrace and Imbros to achieve, ultimately failed but with this project. Although the sultan had briefly considered the return of the islands to Dorino, but then decided on the advice of his dignitaries to assign Dorino II an estate in Macedonia, where he then lived under Ottoman guard under de facto house arrest. In an armed coup but succeeded Dorino II around 1460 and his followers to overpower the guards and escape. According to some sources, he will first to Genoa, be according to other sources to Lesbos, which was at that time still under the reign of his relatives Niccolo II Gattilusio, fled. Probably after 1462 he went to Naxos, where he married about 1465 Elisabetta Crispo, the daughter of his late uncle Duke Giacomo II Crispo of Naxos. Until his death Dorino II Gattilusio stayed in Naxos. His reign Aenos he had lost forever.

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