Theodora Asenina Ghisi

Title
Princess
Lived
?–1398

Biography

Theodora Asenina, whose membership of the Asen family is beyond doubt, married Bartolomeo III Ghisi — the Venetian lord of the islands of Tinos and Mykonos and of a third of Negroponte (Euboea). She is the mother of Giorgio III Ghisi, the last representative of this Venetian dynasty in the Aegean.

Theodora outlived both her husband and her son. After the death of Giorgio III (1390) without heirs, the greater part of the Ghisi domains passed to Venice. Theodora died shortly before 21 May 1398, possessing her own estates and a considerable sum of money; with her death the last remnants of the Ghisi inheritance too became Venetian.