Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1404)

Constantine XI Palaiologos

Last Byzantine Emperor from 1449 to 1453

Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus was the last reigning Byzantine emperor from 23 January 1449 until his death in battle at the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453. Constantine's death marked the definitive end of the Eastern Roman Empire, which traced…