Greetings all,
Today we commemorate the birth of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos on June 27th in 1350 AD:
Although his reign was marred by civil war, he did travel to the
West to try and raise support against the Ottomans. Manuel II was the
first Roman Emperor to return to Britain in almost a thousand years! He
wrote numerous
works including treatises on music and rhetoric, and also the last
"mirror of prince" manual in Byzantium, a sort of self-help manual to
assist a new monarch in learning the job of how to govern. He and his
wife Helena Dregas had two sons which became Emperors - John VIII
Palaiologos and the last Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos.
There should be cake! :)
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
www.byzantiumnovum.org
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