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    from the Palaiologos imperial dynasty and the grand princess of Moscow as the second wife of Ivan III of Russia. Her father was Thomas Palaiologos, the despot...
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    (1348 – 1390), married byzantine emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos and had a son (John VII Palaiologos) Princess Vasilisa of Bulgaria Family tree of Ivan...
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    uprising was gaining momentum in 1280. A despotes under Michael VIII Palaiologos, Ivan Asen III had already been married to the Byzantine Emperor's eldest...
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    and four girls: Anna of Moscow (1393 – August 1417), wife of John VIII Palaiologos, died of bubonic plague Yury Vasilievich (30 March 1395 – 30 November...
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  • Maria-Irene Palaiologina (category Palaiologos dynasty)
    parents were Andronikos III Palaiologos and Anna of Savoy, whilst her siblings were John V Palaiologos and Michael Palaiologos. She married in 1336 Tsar...
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    Morea in the 1360s. The rival Palaiologos dynasty seized the Morea after Manuel's death in 1380, with Theodore I Palaiologos becoming despot in 1383. Theodore...
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    and churchwarden and possibly one of the last living members of the Palaiologos dynasty, which had ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in...
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    princes of Serbia and Bulgaria as well as the East Roman emperor John V Palaiologos to pay him tribute. Murad I administratively divided his sultanate into...
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  • of Harmankaya, owner of its lands and principality, and a member of Palaiologos family. He is a relative of the Byzantine emperor and the most noble...
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    the Byzantine Empire was shaken by a bloody civil war between John V Palaiologos and John VI Kantakouzenos. Circa mid 14th century the Balkans were politically...
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    emperors wished to show special favour to a son (Constantine Palaiologos under Michael VIII Palaiologos and Matthew Kantakouzenos under John VI Kantakouzenos)...
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    daughter of Andronikos III Palaiologos. In 1354–1355 the Ottoman Turks invaded Bulgaria and headed towards Plovdiv and Sofia. It is mentioned in an anonymous...
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    Michael Palaiologos was unable to deal with these early setbacks due to the need to transfer troops to the West. In 1282, Michael Palaiologos died and...
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    (1960). "Das Wiener Testament des Andreas Palaiologos vom 7. April 1502" [The Vienna Testament of Andreas Palaiologos from 7 April 1502]. Akten des 11. Internat...
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  • Irene Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria (category Palaiologos dynasty)
    Палеологина) was the eldest daughter of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and empress Theodora Palaiologina, and empress consort of Ivan Asen III...
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    re-appeared prominently during the High Middle Ages, being adopted by the Palaiologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. 11th or 12th century representations...
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  • prestige through the marriage between his sister Sofia and the second last Byzantine Emperor, John VIII Palaiologos. John Jacob's expansion, however, spurred...
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  • straits, Mehmed's army was given passage by ships loaned from Manuel II Palaiologos, who also supplied Mehmed with some troops. Mehmed marched his army from...
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    thousand people who lived among the ruins, in the shadow of Mystras. The Palaiologos family (the last Byzantine Greek imperial dynasty) also lived in Mystras...
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    Emperors. Andreas Palaiologos, a nephew of the last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos and the head of what remained of the Palaiologos family, started...
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  • Mighty (r. 1331–1355) Constantine Palaiologos (half-brother of Michael VIII), Byzantine, named in 1260 John Palaiologos (brother of Michael VIII), Byzantine...
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    structure. The last pretender of the crown of the Byzantine Empire, Andreas Palaiologos, who styled himself as "Emperor of Constantinople", bestowed his imperial...
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    the second-largest city in Bulgaria, 93 miles southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 346,893 as of 2018[update] and 675,000 in the greater...
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    Laskaris Michael VIII Palaiologos Andronikos II Palaiologos Michael IX Palaiologos Andronikos III Palaiologos John V Palaiologos John VI Kantakouzenos...
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    is believed that the hundredth door will open once the church of Hagia Sofia in Constantinople becomes an Orthodox Church again. Gresham-Knight, Xanthe...
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  • from ambassadors to Rome to marry princess Zoe of the ancient Byzantine Palaiologos family. He sends voivode Khromoy and monetary master Ivan Fryazin to...
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  • intermarriages with other noble families, notably the Doukas, Angelos, and Palaiologos, the Komnenos name appears among most of the major noble houses of the...
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    the throne was being contested by Andronikos II Palaiologos and his grandson Andronikos III Palaiologos. Taking advantage of the situation, George invaded...
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    Uprising of Ivaylo (category Michael VIII Palaiologos)
    recognize him as emperor of Bulgaria. The Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos tried to exploit this situation and intervened in Bulgaria. He sent Ivan...
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    Denmark Margrethe II and former queens consort Anne-Marie of Greece and Sofía of Spain, are patrilineal members of cadet branches of the House of Glücksburg...
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