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Did you know... that Nicholas Orsini became Despot of Epirus by murdering his uncle, only to be in turn killed by his brother five years later?
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usurped rule of Epirus from his uncle, Thomas Komnenos Doukas, whom he murdered suggest murdered his uncle, Thomas Komnenos Doukas, and usurped his rule of Epirus.
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... that Nicholas Orsini became Despot of Epirus by murdering his uncle, only to be in turn killed by his brother five years later? Source: Nicol 1984 p. 80 "But before the year was out Thomas was dead, murdered by his nephew Nicholas Orsini..." and p. 92 "Gregoras seems also to imply that it was a direct act of fratricide. A later decree of the patriarch's synod, however, indicates that Nicholas was killed as the result of war with his brother."
@Cplakidas: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:29, 6 February 2023 (UTC)