John Palaiologos

John Palaiologos (1286–1307) was a son of Emperor Andronikos II and his second wife, Irene of Montferrat. He was made Despot in 1295 and in 1303 married Irene Choumnaina, daughter of Nikephoros Choumnos, and from 1304 governed Thessalonica.

In 1305 his mother wanted him to claim the vacant March of Montferrat, but Patriarch Athanasius I blocked the plan and his younger brother Theodore went instead. John died in Thessalonica in 1307 and was buried in Constantinople's Pantokrator Monastery in 1321.