Monday, December 18, 2023

 Greetings all,


On this Day we commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Emperor John VIII Palaiologos on  December 18th in 1392 AD:


There should be cake!  :)

He was the eldest son of Manuel II Palaiologos and Helena Dragas, and was co-Emperor with is father before 1416 and became sole Emperor in 1425. John VIII successfully supervised the defense of Constantinople during an Ottoman siege by the forces of Murad II and tried to secure help from the West by consenting to a union of the Greek and Roman churches. Although this failed he was able to keep possession of Constantinople. John VIII was the last Byzantine Emperor to die of natural causes.

-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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