Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1225)

Michael VIII Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor (1261-1282), founder of the Palaiologos dynasty

Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1261 until his death in 1282, and previously as the co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261. Michael VIII was the founder of the Palaiologan dynasty that would rule the Byzantine Empire until…