John VII Palaiologos

John VII Palaiologos (Greek Ἰωάννης Ε ' Παλαιολόγος, Ioannes VII Palaiologos, * 1370, † September 22, 1408 ). Was Byzantine emperor for six months in 1390 and again from 1399 to 1402 He was the son of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos and Keratsa of Bulgaria, a subsidiary of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Alexander and his wife Theodora of Wallachia. He was the grandson of John V Palaiologos and can easily be confused with his cousin John VIII Palaiologos, a son of his uncle Manuel II Palaiologos.

When his father usurped the throne in 1376, he was employed as co-regent. Both were overcome but in 1379 and partially blinded. While his father but still retained the title of emperor, it is unclear whether this John was disallowed.

On April 14, 1390, he managed to gain the throne for five months; he was expelled from his uncle Manuel II but again. John VII fled to the Turkish Sultan Bayezid I, who was already married to his daughter in 1387.

When Manuel II campaigned in 1399 in Western Europe for help against the Turks, took him John VII. Than deputy until his return in 1402

• Kaiser ( Byzantium )
• Palaiologues
• Born in 1370
• Died in 1408
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