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The Cantacuzino or Cantacuzène family, a princely family of Wallachia, Moldavia and Russia, claims descent from a branch of the Greek Kantakouzenos family, descended from the Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos (reigned 1347–1354). In Russia, the family received princely (''Knyaz'', as opposed to ''Velikij Knyaz'') status. In 1944 Prince Ștefan Cantacuzino settled in Sweden, where his descendants form part of the unintroduced nobility of the country.〔 http://www.svd.se/kultur/utlandska-slakter-med-stamtavla_416401.svd 〕 ==Origin of the family== Members of the family claim that the genealogical links between the Byzantine Greek and Romanian branches of the family have been extensively researched,〔Jean-Michel Cantacuzène, ''Mille ans dans les Balkans'' Éditions Christian Paris (1992) ISBN 2-86496-054-0.〕 but scholars are more doubtful. The Phanariote line of the Kantakouzenoi appears in the late 16th century with Michael "Şeytanoğlu" Kantakouzenos, after a gap of over a century from the Fall of Constantinople. It was usual among wealthy Greeks of the time to assume Byzantine surnames and claim descent from the famous noble houses of their Byzantine past.〔 〕 The eminent Byzantinist Steven Runciman considered the latter-day Kantakouzenoi "perhaps the only family whose claim to be in the direct line from Byzantine Emperors was authentic",〔 〕 but according to Donald Nicol, "Patriotic Rumanian historians have indeed labored to show that ... of all the Byzantine imperial families that of the Kantakouzenos is the only one which can truthfully be said to have survived to this day; but the line of succession after the middle of the fifteenth century is, to say the least, uncertain."〔Nicol, ''The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus)'', ca. ''1100-1460: A Genealogical and Prosopographical Study'' (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1968), p. v〕 The origin of the Byzantine family can be traced to Smyrna. The Greek scholar Konstantinos Amantos suggested at "Kantakouzenos" derives from , ultimately from the locality of Kouzenas, a name for the southern part of Mount Sipylon near Smyrna. Donald Nicol agrees with this theory, and lists some connections the Kantakouzenos had with the locale in the 11th and 13th centuries.〔Nicol, ''The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus)'', ca. ''1100-1460: A Genealogical and Prosopographical Study'' (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1968), p. viiif〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cantacuzino family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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