Michael VIII

noun

1. Michael VIII12241282MByzantinePOLITICS: hereditary ruler surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches

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If the annals of Michael VIII. and his son were written on to the end of that of Alexius Angelus, the intervening gap of the Latin Conquest might almost pass unperceived, and the reader might imagine that he was investigating a single continuous course of events.

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However, he had read the tale of the rise of the Paleologi to some purpose, and had resolved to imitate the career of Michael VIII.

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In the East in 1261 the Greeks recaptured Constantinople from the Latin emperors, and the founder of the new Greek dynasty, Michael Palæologus, Michael VIII, after some unreal tentatives of reconciliation with the Pope, broke away from the Roman communion altogether, and with that, and the fall of the Latin kingdoms in Asia, the eastward ascendancy of the Popes came to an end.

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See PalaceTeutal Lougophetes, 280Thebes, Duchy of, 272Thekla, daughter of Emperor Theophilus, 209, 270Theoctista, 269, 270Theoctistos, 256, 270Theodora-- Empress of Justinian the Great, 62, 70, 73, 74, 75, 97, 102, 290Empress of Emperor Theophilus, 40, 69, 255, 256, 269, 270, 294Empress of Michael VIII.

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The Latin tenure of Constantinople lasted only 57 years; the imperial city was recaptured in 1261 by Michael VIII.

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