Michael VIII Palaiologos
1223 CE–1282 CE · Constantinople
Michael VIII Palaiologos was Byzantine emperor from 1259 to 1282 and the founder of the Palaiologos dynasty, the last to rule the empire. Rising to power in the successor state of Nicaea after the Fourth Crusade had partitioned the empire, he recaptured Constantinople from its Latin rulers in 1261, restoring the Byzantine state to its historic capital. He defended the reduced empire through vigorous diplomacy, including the controversial Union of the Churches agreed at the Council of Lyon in 1274, which he pursued to forestall a Western invasion but which was widely rejected by his subjects. His maneuvering helped provoke the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, thwarting a planned attack by Charles of Anjou.
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- Qalawun· 1222 CE–1290 CE
- Tran Thai Tong· 1218 CE–1277 CE
- Al-Ashraf Khalil· –1293 CE
- Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji· –1296 CE
- Louis IX of France· 1214 CE–1270 CE
- Alexander Nevsky· 1221 CE–1263 CE
- Ramkhamhaeng the Great· –1298 CE
- Hulagu Khan· 1217 CE–1265 CE
- Lajin· –1299 CE
- Möngke Khan· 1209 CE–1259 CE
- Raden Wijaya· –1309 CE
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