as far south as Nafpaktos.

Life

Michael was an illegitimate son of Michael I Komnenos Doukas, the founder of the state of Epirus. The historian Demetrios Polemis estimates that he was born in the early years of his father's reign (1205-15), probably in ca. 1206. Like most members of his family, originally descended from the Angelos family, he preferred the surname

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