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Andronikos Palaiologos or Andronicus Palaeologus (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) was a Byzantine prince and the last Byzantine governor of Thessalonica with the title of despot (despotēs), from 1408 to 1423.
Andronikos II Palaiologos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Andrónikos Doúkās Ángelos Komnēnós Palaiologos; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the ...
Manuel II Palaiologos was the second son of Emperor John V Palaiologos and his wife Helena Kantakouzene. Granted the title of despotēs by his father, the future Manuel II traveled west to seek support for the Byzantine Empire in 1365 and in 1370, serving as governor in Thessalonica from 1369.
Andronikos Palaiologos or Andronicus Palaeologus ( Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος) was a Byzantine prince and the last Byzantine governor of Thessalonica with the title of despot ( despotēs ), from 1408 to 1423. Andronikos (second from right) as a youth with his parents and brothers.
Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1282–1328), who had the reputation of a lover of learning, arranged for, or permitted, no fewer than six of his sons and nephews to marry daughters of his learned, middling-stratum ministers.1 Both quantitatively and.
What is more, the charge of tyranny against him has little, if anything, to do with the unpalatable means of his accession to the throne—note Andronikos became emperor by assassinating his young predecessor, Emperor Alexios II (1180–3), son of his late cousin, Emperor Manuel (1143–80).
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The reign of Andronikos II marks the point at which Byzantium truly declined to the rank of a second-rate power. One of Andronikos’s first actions was to save money by scrapping his father’s successful fleet, a mistake that would leave Byzantium at the mercy of the maritime powers of Italy.
