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    succeeded in 1221 by his son-in-law, John III Doukas Vatatzes, who had married Theodore's daughter Irene Laskarina. Vatatzes had to fight off a rival claim by...
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    the Reign of Leo III, with Particular Attention to the Oriental Sources. Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO. ISBN 90-429-0387-2. Giovanni Sienda (1761)....
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    Romanos III Argyros (Greek: Ῥωμανός Ἀργυρός; Latinized Romanus III Argyrus; 968 – 11 April 1034), or Argyropoulos was Byzantine Emperor from 1028 until...
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    declared himself emperor, challenging the Nicaean emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes's claims to the Byzantine imperial throne. In 1225, he advanced to...
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    He confirms the reconquest of Bulgarian territories against John III (Doukas Vatatzes), Byzantine ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. Frederick II suppresses...
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    of the Latin Empire, and was crowned in Constantinople in 1231. John III Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria occupied the last Latin...
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    Nicaea, which started acquiring territories in Greece. Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes of Nicaea concluded an alliance with Bulgaria, which in 1235 resulted...
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    Isenberg, German nobleman (d. 1226) Giovanni da Penna, Italian Franciscan priest (d. 1271) John III (Doukas Vatatzes), emperor of Nicaea (d. 1254) John...
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  • of a feast day for Felicitas, which he reports was known to John III Doukas Vatatzes through the alleged possession of the second half of Ovid's incomplete...
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  • John III Doukas Vatatzes John III of Naples John III of Trebizond John III Rizocopus John III Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople John III, Pope...
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    c(omitialis) Imp(erator) Caesar [Augustus est a]ppell[a]tus ipso VII et Agrip[pa III co(n)s(ulibus)]. CIL 8375 Archived 8 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine: "[X]VII...
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    In January 1453, notable Genoese aid arrived voluntarily in the form of Giovanni Giustiniani—a renowned soldier known for his skill in siege warfare—and...
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    a copy. The Grimani portrait bust also served as the model for one by Giovanni Battista and Nicola Bonanome (ca.1565), one of a series of The Twelve Caesars...
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    His mother was a daughter of Basil Argyros, brother of the emperor Romanos III. Courageous and generous, but also impetuous, Romanos rose with distinction...
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    megas domestikos (commander-in-chief), probably by Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes. The Palaiologoi's many marriages with prominent Byzantine families...
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    three children: Constance (Anna) (1230 – April 1307), married John III Ducas Vatatzes. Manfred (1232 – killed in battle, Benevento, 26 February 1266), first...
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    Istanbul) to Nicaea (now Iznik in Turkey), as the guest of John III Doukas Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea. January 18 Rusudan becomes the new Queen of Georgia...
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  • where Constance II of Hohenstaufen, widow of her grandfather John III Doukas Vatatzes, also lived. As a young girl, Eudoxia was promised to the royal family...
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    Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-521-76652-4, p. 96 Giovanni Battista Bazzana, "The Bar Kokhba Revolt and Hadrian's religious policy"...
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    Latin Empire in 1212–1213. The city was later recovered by Emperor John III Vatatzes. Abydos declined in the 13th century, and was eventually abandoned between...
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    Frederick II and Bianca Lancia, wife of Emperor of the East John III Ducas Vatatze; Queen Constance (1249-1300), daughter of Manfred. A 2022 series of...
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    arrival of reinforcements, but, in August 253, at Forum Flaminii (modern San Giovanni Profiamma), on the western branch of the Flaminia, they were killed by...
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    Veyne 2005, pp. 195–196. Veyne 2005, p. 229. Veyne 2005, pp. 229–230. Giovanni Salmeri, "Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor" IN Simon Swain,...
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  • Nicaean fortress of Tzouroulos in eastern Thrace, the Nicaean emperor John III Vatatzes campaigned against Latin fortresses north of Nicomedia. With his fleet...
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    married King Hovhannes-Smbat III of Armenia Leon Argyros, katepano, killed 1017 Maria Argyre, died 1006 or 1007; she married Giovanni Orseolo, son of Doge Pietro...
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    usurper Sabinus Julianus (r. 283–285). He is even more rarely called Julian III. "Two famous, almost identical marble statues of a bearded man wearing a...
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  • medical science which is still extant. He was at the court of John III Doukas Vatatzes. He compiled and revised Ancient Greek scripts including, but not...
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    John Vatatzes from entering Devoll. Vatatzes managed to convince Golem to switch sides and a new treaty was signed between the parties where Vatatzes promised...
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    came to beg for help for the Latin empire being threatened by John III Ducas Vatatzes, the emperor of Nicaea. Her pleas were refused as the Crusade against...
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  • He confirms the reconquest of Bulgarian territories against John III (Doukas Vatatzes), Byzantine ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. Frederick II suppresses...
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