Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1350)

Manuel II Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425

Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name Matthaios (Ματθαίος). Manuel was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, which sometimes threatened to capture his territory outright.…