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This guy:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Yahya. Yahya, born 1585, was the son of Ottoman Sultan Murad III and was baptized by his mother into Orthodox Christianity at an early age. He spent most of his life trying and failing to get support to claim the Ottoman throne before dying in 1649. This is basically the summery of the Wikipedia article, which leaves much to be desired. That's why I'm posting this here: I'm hoping that someone has more information on this Prince.
His mother was supposedly Princess Elena of the Komnenos dynasty, which is itself baffling, as that dynasty was supposed to be extinct by the time of his birth. So is there any evidence of a Komnenos branch alive in the Ottoman Empire at the time? And what about his children? He supposedly married an Albanian-Italian Princess and had three children. Is there any proof to this and if so did his children leave descendants? Do we know what happened to them or not? Finally, if Yahya was an imposter, why was he never denounced by the Sultan in Istanbul and how did he gain support from successive Popes, the Cossacks and a Tatar Khan? Any help is greatly appreciated!