Constantine, the Despot of the Maria

Constantine the eleventh was one of ten children of emperor manuel the second. Constantine would become the despot of the maria in 14 28, when his older brother was the byzantine emperor john the eighth. The ottoman sultan memed the secondmehmed had taken control of most of the eastern balkans at the end of the thirteenth century. Constantine ud eventually be accepted as his successor to reign as constantine the 11th.