Palaiologos
The Palaiologos (Greek Palaiologos, plural Palaiologoi ) were the last imperial dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. They ruled the country from 1259 until the storming of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453. The Palaiologos died in the male line in 1502 with Andreas Palaiologos from which ceded his throne claims on Byzantium to Charles VIII of France and later to Ferdinand the Catholic of Spain had.
The family also dominated the Despotate of Morea ( Mistra on the peninsula of the Morea ) from 1382 to 1460, which were each entrusted to the heir to the throne ( Sekundogenitur ). Through inheritance reached a branch of the family in 1305 in the possession of the Margraviate of Montferrat in Northern Italy, which passed into female succession in 1533 to the Gonzaga family.
The marriage of the Grand Duke Ivan III. from Moscow with Sofia Palaiologa, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI. , founded the Russian claim to the spiritual and religious successor of the Byzantine Empire, which was documented among others by the takeover of the double eagle in the Russian coat of arms (see Third Rome).
Byzantine emperor from the family of Palaiologues
- Michael VIII Palaiologos (1259-1282)
- Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282-1328)
- Michael IX. Palaiologos (1294-1320)
- Andronikos III. Palaiologos (1328-1341)
- John V Palaiologos (1341-1391)
- John VI. Cantacuzenus (1347-1354)
- Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1376-1379)
- John VII Palaiologos ( 1390 )
- Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425)
- John VIII Palaiologos (1425-1448)
- Constantine XI. Palaiologos (1449-1453)
Margrave of Montferrat from the family of Palaiologues
- Theodore I. (1305-1338)
- Johann II (1338-1372)
- Otto III. (1372-1378)
- Johann III. (1378-1381)
- Theodore II (1381-1418)
- Johann Jakob (1418-1445)
- John IV (1445-1464)
- William X. (1464-1483)
- Bonfaitius IV (1483-1494)
- Wilhelm XI. (1494-1518)
- Boniface V. (1518-1530)
- Johann Georg (1530-1533)
Family relationships
Michael VIII to Michael IX.
Andronikos III. to Constantine XI.
The Palaiologues in Montferrat to Margrave Johann Jakob
The Palaiologues in Montferrat from Margrave John IV
One nichtebenbürtigen connection of a member of the Byzantine Emperor Dynasty to the French family Paléologue come; a member of the same, the French diplomat Maurice Paléologue (1859-1944), who became famous through his diary account of the overthrow of the tsarist empire, saw accordingly during his tenure as ambassador to St. Petersburg or Petrograd (1914-1917) by the Russian court and high nobility treated as an equal.