Palamede Gattilusio

Palamede Gattilusio (* um 1395, † 1455 ) was from 1409 to 1455 Lord of Ainos.

He came from the prestigious Genoese patrician family Gattilusio and was a son of Francesco II Achron Gattilusio of Lesbos, and his wife, an unnamed princess of Byzantium. From the marriage Palamedes (wife name not recorded ) were born two sons.

Since the marriage of Niccolo I. Gattilusio, the first Lord of Ainos, had no male heirs, after his death Palamede Gattilusio, the son of his brother Francesco II Gattilusio, Achron of Lesbos, installed as the new Lord of Ainos. From the Byzantine emperor John VIII he later received the islands of Samothrace and Imbroz as a fief. Palamede built in his domain a powerful fleet, with which he in the fight against the Ottomans, among others. involved on the side of the Byzantine Empire and Genoa. After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 but also Palamede could not cope with the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II was pressure and tribute. Since Palamede Gattilusios eldest son Giorgio had already died in 1449, followed in 1455 by his younger son Dorino for a short time as lord of Ainos.