Andronikos II Palaiologos

Andronikos II Palaiologos
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
Miniature from the manuscript of George Pachymeres' Historia
Byzantine emperor
Reign11 December 1282 –
24 May 1328
Coronation8 November 1272
PredecessorMichael VIII Palaiologos (alone)
SuccessorAndronikos III Palaiologos
Co-emperorMichael IX Palaiologos
Proclamation1261 (as co-emperor)
Born25 March 1259
Nicaea, Empire of Nicaea
(now İznik, Bursa, Turkey)
Died13 February 1332(1332-02-13) (aged 72)
Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
SpousesAnna of Hungary
Yolande of Montferrat
Issue
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Michael IX Palaiologos
Constantine Palaiologos
John Palaiologos
Theodore I, Marquis of Montferrat
Demetrios Palaiologos
Simonis (Simonida Nemanjić), Queen of Serbia
Irene Palaiologina (wife of John II Doukas), Sebastokratorissa of Thessaly
Names
Andronikos Doukas Angelos Palaiologos
Medieval Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος
DynastyPalaiologos
FatherMichael VIII Palaiologos
MotherTheodora Palaiologina
ReligionGreek Orthodox

Andronikos II Palaiologos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος, romanizedAndrónikos Doúkās Ángelos Komnēnós Palaiologos; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332),[1] Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored empire's final decline. The Turks conquered most of Byzantium's remaining Anatolian territories, and Andronikos spent the last years of his reign fighting his own grandson in the First Palaiologan Civil War. The war ended in Andronikos' forced abdication in 1328, after which he retired to a monastery for the remainder of his life.

  1. ^ PLP, 21436. Παλαιολόγος, Ἀνδρόνικος II. Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνός.