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Michael VIII
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Michael VIII
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(Biographies / Michael VIII (1224-1282) M, Byzantine, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊgəs). 1224-82, Byzantine emperor (1259-82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches


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In the summer of 1261, an army sent by the Byzantine general, the emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, at last defeated the Franks--more or less by accident, but that's another matter.
 
 
 
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