page_title: Constantine Kanaris
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Constantine Kanaris / Family
caption_attribution_description: The silver container with the heart of greek revolutionary and Prime Minister Konstantinos Kanaris (Κωνσταντίνος Κανάρης). National Historical Museum, Athens, Greece.
context_page_description: Constantine Kanaris or Canaris was a Greek Prime Minister, admiral and politician who in his youth was a freedom fighter in the Greek War of Independence.
context_section_description: In 1817, he married Despina Maniatis, from a historical family of Psara. They had seven children:
  Nikolaos Kanaris, (1818–1848): Member of a military expeditionary force to Beirut, killed there in 1848.
  Themistoklis Kanaris, (1819–1851): Member of a military expeditionary force to Egypt, killed there in 1851.
  Thrasyvoulos Kanaris, (1820–1898): Admiral.
  Miltiadis Kanaris, (1822–1901): Admiral, member of the Greek Parliament for many years, Naval Minister three times in 1864, 1871, and 1878.
  Lykourgos Kanaris, (1826–1865): Lawyer.
  Maria Kanari, (1828–1847): Married A. Balambano.
  Aristeidis Kanaris, (1831–1863): Officer killed in the uprising of 1863.
  Wilhelm Canaris, a German Admiral, speculated that he might be a descendant of Constantine Kanaris. An official genealogical family history that was researched in 1938 showed however, that Canaris was of Italian descent and was not related to Constantine Kanaris.
caption: The silver container with the heart of Constantine Kanaris at the National Historical Museum, Athens.
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