Ioannes Laskaris, IV

1250 - Abt 1305  (54 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Ioannes Laskaris
  Suffix	IV
  Birth	25 Dec 1250
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1305
  as monk
  Siblings	5 Siblings
  1. Ioannes Laskaris, IV,   b. 25 Dec 1250   d. Abt 1305  (Age 54 years)   2. Irene Doukaina Laskarina   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Constantine I von Bulgarien + 3. Maria Doukaina Laskarina   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Nikephoros Komnenos Doukas, I + 4. Eudoxia Laskarina,   b. Abt 1254   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Guillaume Pierre de Tenda,  m. 1261   5. Theodora Laskarina   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Baron Mathieu de Mons   6. NN Laskarina   d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I487867	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Theodoros Dukas Laskaris, II,   b. 1222   d. Aug 1258 (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Marija von Bulgarien,   b. 1224   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1235
  Family ID	F195759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Dukas Laskaris of Nicaea from August 18, 1258 to December 25, 1261. This small empire was one of the Greek states formed from the remaining fragments of the Byzantine Empire , after the capture of Constantinople by Western European Christians during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. John IV was only seven years old when he inherited the throne on the death of his father. The young monarch was the last member of the Laskarid dynasty, which had done much to restore the Byzantine Empire. His regent was originally the bureaucrat George Mouzalon , but that position was usurped by the aristocrat Michael Palaiologos, who later made himself co-emperor as Michael VIII on January 1, 1259. (Michael was, in fact, John's second cousin once removed, since they were both descended from Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera .) After Michael's conquest of Constantinople on July 25, 1261, John IV was left behind at Nicaea , and was later blinded on Michael's orders on his eleventh birthday, December 25, 1261. This made him ineligible for the throne, and he was exiled and imprisoned in a fortress in Bithynia . This action caused the excommunication of Michael VIII Palaiologos by the Patriarch Arsenius Autoreianus , and a later revolt led by a Pseudo-John IV near Nicaea. John IV spent the remainder of his life as monk, under the name Joasaph. In 1290 he was visited by Andronikos II Palaiologos , who sought forgiveness for his father's blinding of John IV three decades earlier. The deposed emperor died about 1305 and was eventually recognized as a saint, whose memory was revered in Constantinople in the 14th century.