Theodore Paleologus | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Tombstone_of_Teodoro_Paleologus_(son).png) Tombstone of Theodore Junior in Westminster Abbey | |
| Born | April 1609 Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | April/May 1644 (aged 35) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey, London, England |
| Noble family | Paleologus |
| Father | Theodore Paleologus |
| Mother | Mary Balls |
| Occupation | Soldier, Roundhead |
Theodore Paleologus (Italian: Teodoro Paleologo; April 1609 – April/May 1644), usually distinguished from his father of the same name by modern historians through being referred to as Theodore Junior[1] or Theodore II,[2] was the second son of the 16th/17th-century soldier and assassin Theodore Paleologus, and the oldest son to reach adulthood. Through his father, he was possibly a descendant of the Palaiologos dynasty of Byzantine emperors.
Like his father, Theodore Junior was a professional soldier, first attested in this capacity when he was serving in the forces led by Algernon Percy, the Earl of Northumberland, in the Bishops' Wars in 1640. At the outbreak of the English Civil War (1642–1651), Theodore sided with the Roundheads (Parliamentarians), despite his two brothers and his friend Richard Grenville being Cavaliers (royalists). Theodore did not survive the war, dying in 1644, probably of camp fever during the early stages of the Siege of Oxford. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his grave was one of the few Parliamentarian graves to survive unscathed after the English monarchy was restored in 1660.
- ^ Nicol 1974, p. 202.
- ^ Hall 2015, pp. 11, 129.