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Andronicus IV Palaeologus

Byzantine emperor
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Also spelled:
Andronikos IV Palaiologos
Born:
April 11, 1348, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
Died:
June 28, 1385, Selymbria [now Silivri, Turkey] (aged 37)
Title / Office:
emperor (1376-1379), Byzantine Empire
House / Dynasty:
Palaeologus family
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Andronicus IV Palaeologus (born April 11, 1348, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died June 28, 1385, Selymbria [now Silivri, Turkey]) was the Byzantine emperor from 1376 to 1379. Conspiring against his father, John V Palaeologus, he was imprisoned and deprived of his rights to the succession. John’s rivals, the Genoese, however, helped Andronicus to escape, and he entered Constantinople on August 12, 1376, took his father prisoner, and was crowned the following year (October 18, 1377). In 1379, however, it was his father’s turn to escape—with Venetian and Turkish aid—and be restored to the throne, on the condition that he ...(100 of 118 words)

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