Michael IX Palaiologos or Palaeologus was Byzantine emperor together with his father, Andronikos II Palaiologos, from 1294 until his death. Andronikos II and Michael IX ruled as equal co-rulers, both using the title autokrator.
Michael IX and Andronikos II (Silver basilikon).
Entry of Roger de Flor in Constantinople by José Moreno Carbonero, 1888. Palacio del Senado, Spain.
Andronikos III Palaiologos, 14th-century miniature.
Hagios Demetrios at Thessalonica, destroyed in 1185 and rebuilt by Michael IX.
Andronikos II Palaiologos
Andronikos II Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently-restored empire's final decline. The Turks conquered most of Byzantium's remaining Anatolian territories, and Andronikos spent the last years of his reign fighting his own grandson in the First Palaiologan Civil War. The war ended in Andronikos' forced abdication in 1328, after which he retired to a monastery for the remainder of his life.
Miniature from the manuscript of George Pachymeres' Historia
The Catalan Company led by Roger de Flor entering Constantinople by José Moreno Carbonero (1888).
Gold hyperpyron of Andronikos II, kneeling before Christ
Chrysobull depicting Andronikos II alongside Christ, AD 1301.
