John VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Iōánnēs Palaiológos; 18 December 1392 – 31 October 1448) was the penultimate...
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John VII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Iōánnēs Palaiológos; 1370 – 22 September 1408) was Byzantine emperor for five...
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Council of Florence (category Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy)
Johannes Helmrath [de], Das Basler Konzil; 1431–1449; Forschungsstand und Probleme, (Cologne, 1987). Kolditz, Sebastian. Johannes VIII. Palaiologos und...
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minister) of the Byzantine Empire, under emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos. Loukas Notaras was descended from a Greek family originally...
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John VI Kantakouzenos (category Palaiologos dynasty)
general. He served as grand domestic under Andronikos III Palaiologos and regent for John V Palaiologos before reigning as Byzantine emperor in his own right...
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VIII Palaiologos engaged him in a marriage alliance and awarded him with the high title of sebastokratōr, John remained the foremost of Palaiologos'...
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Prince of Achaea and third great grandson of Michael VIII Palaiologos. Through Thomas Palaiologos, the Tocco family thus represented the senior heirs to...
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years later. His wife Theophano helped their sons Basil II and Constantine VIII to ultimately succeed him in 976. Romanos II was a son of the Emperor Constantine...
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Michael VIII Palaiologos. The alliance was very unstable and in 1259 William was captured at the disastrous Battle of Pelagonia. Michael VIII went on...
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island was notorious as a haven for pirates. The Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaiologos was nearly captured by Catalan pirates in December 1437, when his ship...
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