John III Doukas Vatatzes
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John III Doukas Vatatzes, Latinized as Ducas Vatatzes, was Emperor of Nicaea from 1221 to 1254. He was succeeded by his son, known as Theodore II Doukas Laskaris.
St. John Vatatzes the Merciful King, Emperor of Nicaea and "the Father of the Greeks"
Gold hyperpyron of John III Vatatzes
Theodore I Laskaris
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Theodore I Komnenos Laskaris or Lascaris was the first emperor of Nicaea—a successor state of the Byzantine Empire—from 1205 to his death. Although he was born to an obscure aristocratic family, his m
John III Doukas Vatatzes
…Alexios Raoul. A successful soldier from a military family, John had risen to the position of protovestiarites when he was chosen c. 1216 by Emperor Theodore I Komnenos Laskaris as the second husband for his daughter Irene Laskarina, following the death of her first husband, Andronikos Palaiologos. As husband of Laskaris…
Crusaders besieging Constantinople in 1204.
Ruins of the walls of Nicaea.