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John VIII Palaiologos
Ioannes VIII Palaeologus la
Byzantine emperor
- Child of Helena Dragaš and Manuel II Palaiologos
- Married to Anna of Moscow, Maria of Trebizond, Sophia of Montferrat
- Dated 18 December 1392 CE – 31 October 1448 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 1425 CE – 1448 CE Byzantine emperor Succeeded Manuel II Palaiologos · Succeeded by Konstantinos XI Palaiologos
Family
The family of John VIII Palaiologos
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 11
Family 11
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Helena Dragaš Byzantine empress -
child of (child) Manuel II Palaiologos Byzantine emperor (1350-1425) - of the house Palaiologos Byzantine imperial family
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sibling of Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonica Byzantine governor -
sibling of Demetrios Palaiologos Despot of Morea -
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sibling of Konstantinos XI Palaiologos last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453 -
sibling of Theodoros II Palaiologos despot of the Morea -
sibling of Thomas Palaiologos Despot of the Morea from 1428 to 1460 - married to Maria of Trebizond Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire
- married to Sophia of Montferrat Byzantine empress
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married to Anna of Moscow Byzantine empresses
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
15 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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