Princess Asenina Palaiologina (wife of Centurione II)

Asenina Palaiologina was the wife of Centurione II Zaccaria, one of the last Princes of Achaea (1404-1429) and after her marriage, she became consort of the Latin Principality.

The actual name of the Princess does not survive, but we know that through her father she descended from the prestigious imperial families of Palaiologos and Asen and that through her mother by the house of Tzamplakon.

Seeing that the Prince was absent and that the great coastal city of Glarentza had few men guarding its walls, he laid siege on it.

Centurione asked Ercole Tocco an illegitimate son of Carlo for men so to pass to his Barony of Arcadia, as he didn't have many soldiers with him and he was fearful of a possible attack by the Palaiologoi.

Thomas forced him to a treaty whereby their daughter, Catherine Zaccaria, would marry the despot and thus make him Centurione's heir in Achaea.

Sphrantzes in his Short History mentions a Kydonides Tzamblakon next to Thomas Palaiologos, that he calls the most beloved uncle of his wife Catherine.