KOPSIDAS

THE KINGDOM OF AEGIALIA Genealogy (THE ORTHODOX CHURCH)

On my paternal grandmother's side, Kyriakoula Aravani was a descendant of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Orthodox-Roman emperor. Constantine XI Palaiologos reigned from 1449 to 1453. He died in battle at the fall of Constantinople.

Helena Palaiologina was the daughter of Thomas Palaiologos. Thomas Palaiologos was the brother of Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. On the 20th of June 1459, Helena Palaiologina fled Serbia, came to Lefkas, and died in 1473. Helena Palaiologina was a princess of the Orthodox-Roman Empire; she lived in Lefkas at the church known as the Panagia Hodegetria. The Paliologos Royal family in Lefkas changed their name to Kopsidas, and they lived in Karya Lefkas, where my father Nicholaos Kopsidas, was born. Nicholaos Kopsidas' mother was Kyriakoula Aravani, and her mother was Alexandra Kopsidas. Alexandra Kopsidas' father was Ioannis Kopsidas. Ioannes Kopsidas was the son of Christos Kopsidas.

My paternal side is also called Kopsidas. The name Kopsidas is of Aegialian Pelasgian origin and is pre-Greek. The island of Lefkada is the ancient sacred island of Aegialia, the site of the true city of Jerusalem. Ithaca, now Lefkada, was first known as Aegialia.