Andronikos V Palaiologos
1400 – 1407 · Generation XLI · Co-emperor (r. 1403–1407) · Palaiologos
Andronikos V Palaiologos was a child emperor of Thessalonica who died at seven, and whose existence was not even recognised by historians until 1967. Born about 1400, he was the only son of John VII Palaiologos and Irene Gattilusio, and he was named after his grandfather, Andronikos IV. His father had briefly seized Constantinople in 1390 and never gave up his claim to the throne.
In 1403 John VII and his uncle Manuel II reached an agreement: John would reign after Manuel, then Manuel’s son John VIII, and after him Andronikos. John VII received Thessalonica with the full imperial title, set up his own court there and crowned his son co-emperor. An ivory box now at Dumbarton Oaks, made to mark the occasion, shows Andronikos more prominently than John VIII, though John was older and nearer the throne.
Andronikos died about 1407. Laments were written for him, his father was overcome by grief, and Gabriel, the Metropolitan of Thessalonica, wrote to console him. John VII died the following year, and his rival line ended with him. Until the historian George T. Dennis identified Andronikos in 1967, from an unpublished lament for the emperor Andronikos, son of John, dead at seven, John VII had been thought childless.
One of 19 people of Palaiologos (1190–1503) in this archive. The last and longest-lived house — it retook the city in 1261 and lost it in 1453.
Line of descent: Manuel Komnenos → John Komnenos → Alexios I Komnenos → Theodora Komnene → Andronikos Angelos Doukas → Alexios III Angelos → Irene Angelina → Theodora Palaiologina → Michael VIII Palaiologos → Andronikos II Palaiologos → Michael IX Palaiologos → Andronikos III Palaiologos → John V Palaiologos → Andronikos IV Palaiologos → John VII Palaiologos → Andronikos V Palaiologos.
Parents
- John VII Palaiologos (1370 – 1408)
- Irene Gattilusio (1380 – 1440)
Sources
- Andronikos V Palaiologos · Wikipedia
- John VII Palaiologos · Wikipedia