Kallergis family

Kallergis
Καλλέργης
Coat of arms of the Kallergis family
Approximate reconstruction of the flag of the Kallergis brothers
Parent familyPhokas family
Country Byzantine Empire
Republic of Venice
Ottoman Empire
 Russia
 Greece
Current regionCrete
Ionian Islands
Euboea
Place of originConstantinople, Byzantine Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Founded13th century
FounderIoannis Phokas
Connected familiesVendramin family
Crespi family
Grimani family

The Kallergis family (Greek: Καλλέργης) is a Cretan Greek aristocratic family which claims descent from Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas,[1][2][3] and were at one stage the most powerful noble family of Crete.

  1. ^ Alice-Mary Talbot, Denis F. Sullivan: The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century. Dumbarton Oaks, 2005, Book II, p. 80
  2. ^ David Holton (ed.), Literature and society in Renaissance Crete, Cambridge University Press 1991, p. 80
  3. ^ Melchior Vogüé (marquis de), Charles Henri Auguste Schefer: Revue de l'Orient latin, Volume 11 p. 111