Barbados - Tomb of Ferdinando Paleologus
St John's Churchyard, Barbados - The rather remarkable tomb of Ferdinando Paleologus (?-1678). Paleologus was a descendent of the brother of the great Emperor Constantine XI, the last of the Byzantine Imperial family from the 1400s that produced the last Christian emperors of Greece. He fled to Barbados after the 1645 Battle of Naseby in England, where his family had been driven follwoing the capture of Constantinople by the Turks
Picture No
10507486
Media ID
45525853
Size
5363px x 3433px
(10.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910s
