Michael Ix Palaeologus
Michael IX Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor with his father from 1295 to 1320 , born 1278 , died 1320 , son of Andronikos II Palaeologus and Anne of Hungary. His birth on the day of Easter 1278 has been presented by the Imperial propagnade as miraculous, heralding better days and prosperity for the people and for the Byzantine Empire.
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Biography
In 1295 , his father's associates to the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
In 1302 , he was sent to the south of Asia Minor to take things in hand against his inexperience, his generals must seek to prevent hasty action on his part. The Turks then launched out to attack and incapacitated with his army in the region of Magnesia. Faced with the desertion of most of his army, he owed his salvation in flight, leaving his army helpless.
However, he locks himself in Pergamum , where he resists until January 1304. He opposes the entry in the city, the Catalan company begun by his father and leaves assassinate its leader Roger de Flor , with all his suite at a banquet near Adrianople in 1307. In retaliation, the road Catalan devastating Thrace , leaving bands of Turks, who put Michael IX failed in 1311.
After its military defeat to the Turks, his father sent him to live Andronicus III at Thessaloniki with his stepmother, Irene. The successive deaths of his daughter Anne and her son Manuel affected to the point that he died 12 October 1320.
Family and descendants
He married 16 January 1296 Sources References
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