Michael VIII Palaeologus
... the son of the megas domestikos Andronicus Doukas Comnenus Palaeologus by Theodora Angelina Palaeologina, the granddaughter of Alexius III Angelus, the last legitimate Byzantine emperor. Even ... the patriarch Arsenius of the young emperor, John IV Lascaris, then a lad of eight ... Later that year, in December, he had John Lascaris blinded and banished. For this last ... accession of a new patriarch. After rendering John Lascaris ineligible for the throne, Michael ...
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