Niccolò Gattilusio
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Niccolò Gattilusio
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Niccolò Gattilusio was the sixth and last Gattilusio lord of Lesbos, from 1458 to 1462. He was a younger son of Dorino I Gattilusio and Orietta Doria. He deposed his elder brother Domenico Gattilusio, threw him in prison, and had him strangled. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II used this crime as his pretext to invade Lesbos. According to Franz Babinger, Mehmed's true motivation was that Niccolò had sheltered Catalan pirates in return for a considerable share of their loot; these pirates were preying
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Final Lord of Lesbos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Gattilusio
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2005-02-17T17:55:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T06:27:14Z
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