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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 2657243, member: 56653&quot;]In an interesting twist of fate - Alexius Branas was killed in a confruntation with the Imperial forces lead by Conrad de Montferrat in 1187 - his son Theodore Branas would play a crucial role in the first period of the Latin Empire of Constantinople as a faithful vassal to the Latin Emperors Baldwin I of Flanders and Henry of Flanders against the Bulgarian onslaught in Thrace. </p><p>It&#039;s possible (although the consensus now is rather against this hypothesis) that he might have minted baronial coinage in Thrace in his own name as vassal to Henry of Flanders. </p><p>If there is interest in this adjacent issue, I wrote an article about it <a href="https://www.academia.edu/31206824/Theodore_Mankaphas_or_Theodore_Branas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/31206824/Theodore_Mankaphas_or_Theodore_Branas" rel="nofollow">here.</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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