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unusual facts about Andronikos II Palaiologos


Andronikos II Palaiologos

After the death of his first wife Anne of Hungary, he married Yolanda (renamed Irene) of Montferrat, putting an end to the Montferrat claim to the Kingdom of Thessalonica.


Battle of Apros

Eventually, Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and his son and co-ruler Michael IX had the Catalan leader, Roger de Flor, assassinated with his entourage in April 1305.

Fenari Isa Mosque

Several exponents of the imperial dynasty of the Palaiologos were buried there besides Theodora: her son Constantine, Empress Irene of Montferrat and her husband Emperor Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328).

Patriarch Isaias of Constantinople

The Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos had Isaias confined to the monastery section of the Magnaura school in Constantinople in 1327, possibly due to the Patriarch's support for the emperor's grandson, Andronikos III Palaiologos during the civil war of 1321–1328.

Sgouros

Progonos Sgouros (fl. 1294–1300), a Byzantine noble, related to the family of Andronikos II Palaiologos.

Theodore Synadenos

Synadenos was a close friend to his cousin, the junior emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, but after Michael's death in 1320, Michael's father, the old emperor Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328), distrusting his loyalty, sent him to the border with Serbia, as governor of Prilep.


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