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  Andronicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andronicus ben Meshullam — a Jewish scholar of the second century BC Andronicus of Cyrrhus (c.
Coptic Pope Andronicus of Alexandria (reigned 616 - 622)
Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician — a 1646 satire by Thomas Fuller
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 Andronikos III Palaiologos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andronikos III was the son of Michael IX Palaiologos and Princess Rita of Armenia (renamed Maria).
Andronikos III reorganized the Byzantine navy and reformed the judicial system by forming a panel of four universal judges whom he designated "Universal Justices of the Romans".
Andronikos III died aged 44 in 1341, and was succeeded by his son, John V Palaiologos.
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 Andronicus II
Andronicus II Palaeologus (1260-1332), Byzantine emperor, was the elder son of Michael VIII Palaeologus, whom he succeeded in 1282.
He allowed the fleet, which his father had organized, to fall into decay; and the empire was thus less able than ever to resist the exacting demands of the rival powers of Venice and Genoa.
From 1320 onwards the emperor was engaged in war with his grandson Andronicus.
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 Andronicus III - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His conduct during his youth was so violent that, after the death of his father Michael in 1320, his grandfather Andronicus II resolved to deprive him of his right to the crown.
During his reign Andronicus III was engaged in constant war, chiefly with the Ottoman Turks, who greatly extended their territory, conquering almost all of Asia Minor before his coming to power.
Andronicus worked on the reorganization of the navy, and recovered Lesbos, Phocaea, and Chios from the Genoese.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 175 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thus a dreadful civil war, or rather three wars, arose between the emperor and his grandson, which lasted from 1321 till 1328, when at last the emperor was obliged to abdicate in favour of the latter.
Andronicus the elder retired to a convent at Drama in Thessaly, where he lived as monk under the name of Anto- aius.
Andronicus instructed the children of his master, but was after­wards restored to freedom, and received from his patron the Roman name Livius.
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 Andronicus III - LoveToKnow 1911
1296-1341), eastern Roman emperor, was the son of Michael, son of Andronicus II.
His conduct during youth was so violent that, after the death of his father Michael in 1320, his grandfather resolved to deprive him of his right to the crown.
Andronicus rebelled; he had a powerful party, and the first period of civil war ended in his being crowned and accepted as colleague by his grandfather, 1325.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Andronicus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Andronicus I (Andronicus Comnenus), 1120?-1185, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), nephew of John II.
Andronicus II (Andronicus Palaeologus), 1258-1332, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328), son and successor of Michael VIII.
He was chief minister under Andronicus III, after whose death he proclaimed himself emperor and made war on the rightful heir, John V. He was aided by the Ottoman Turks.
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 Constantinople
Andronicus Comnenus was a tyrant whose short reign was brought to an end as another rising killed him in 1185.
There was a moment when Andronicus II had the opportunity of making at least a serious bid for the reconquest of Asia Minor, when the Seljuk power was breaking up and the Ottomans were not yet established in their place.
Andronicus III was succeeded by an infant, John V, while the government remained in the hands of his minister John Cantacuzenus.
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 Titus Andronicus Essays - Free Essay on Titus Andronicus - Act III, Scene ii, Lines 53-80
The motivation of Andronicus' conduct after Marcus kills the fly is understandable because of the suffering and pain that have put revenge as a major priority in his mind.
At this moment, Andronicus does not take into consideration that the victim is only a fly and the perpetrator is his own brother but he isolates the words of Marcus, ignoring the circumstances and concluding that if somebody has killed he is therefore a murderer.
Andronicus switches so quickly from one position to another because the desire for a revenge has acquired tremendous dimensions in his mind.
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 The Fourth Crusade and the establishment of the Latin Empire In 1195 Isaac II was deposed and blinded by his brother ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Andronicus II Michael's son Andronicus II (reigned 1282-1328) unwisely attempted to economize by cutting down the size of the army and disbanding the navy.
By so doing, Andronicus III and Cantacuzenus were able to call on the services of almost limitless numbers of Turkish soldiers to fight for them against their other enemies: the Italians in the Aegean islands and the Serbs and the Bulgars in Macedonia and Thrace.
The greatest practical achievement of Andronicus III was the restoration to Byzantine rule of the long-separated provinces of Epirus and Thessaly.
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 Andronicus III - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Andronicus III (Andronicus Palaeologus), c.1296-1341, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), grandson of Andronicus II, whom he deposed after a series of civil wars.
During his reign the Ottoman Turks gained almost complete control of Asia Minor, while Stephen Dušan of Serbia conquered part of Macedonia and Albania.
He was succeeded by his son, John V. Author not available, ANDRONICUS III.
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 Andronicus III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Andronicus III, Palaeologus: May 24, 1328-June 15, 1341
Andronicus III standing facing, wearing loros, cruciform scepter in right hand, akakia in left
Note: The NB on the obverse is taken to mean Andronicus' second indiction.
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 Andronicus II - Byzantine Coinage - WildWinds.com
Andronicus II & Michael IX AE 21mm Assarion.
Andronicus & Michael w/long cross / KWa monogram of Constantinople.
Andronicus II & Michael IX AE 22mm Trachy.
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 Gregory Palamas - Historical Appendices
Andronicus III presides in person; hearings are public; senators and ‘general judges’ from the Imperial Court are present, along with bishops, several archimandrates and hegoumenoi (p.54).
Political complications to the second council: Calecas does not go into detail about the second council in his Tome, as both he and Cantacuzene are vying for political power after the death of Andronicus III; and he does not wish to ‘advertise’ the fact that the Great Domestic had acted as emperor (pp.58-60).
Father is Constantine Palamas, a senator in the immediate entourage of Emperor Andronicus II, who entrusts him with the education of his grandson, the future Emperor Andronicus III, who is of exactly the same age as Gregory.
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 Andronicus III Plaeologus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The story of Andronicus III is one that by this period in Byzantine history is becoming ever more familiar.
As Andronicus II's grip on power declined, Andy was able to slip into the imperial palace one night, arrest Granddad and then, gently, tell him he would now be retired.
But Andronicus III, and this is the familiar part, was subject to the chaos of his times.
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 Coins of the Byzantine Empire
Constantine's gold coinage is innovative in its association of the emperor and his heir with the founder of the dynasty, Constantine's father Leo III.
Branded with arguably the worst moniker in history by his iconophile foes, Copronymous ("Name of Shit") for having supposedly defecated whilst being baptized in 718, the hostility Constantine V evoked amongst many of his peers is evident.
To the Byzantine mind, it was the office and not the man that bore the honour: to depict the imperial figure in to recognizable a form would be too confuse this precedence.
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 Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
However, Titus' brother Marcus Andronicus (the Tribune of Rome) announces that the Senate has elected Titus the new emperor, as reward for long years of service as a military commander.
Titus Andronicus then appears, back from the 10 year war with the Goths, in which he killed the Goth king, King Priam, and captured the queen Tamora and her three sons, Alarbus, Demetrius, and Chiron.
Titus Andronicus was one of the spellbinding, graphic, diabolically delightful plays that Shakespeare has ever written.
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 Andronicus III - Byzantine Coinage - WildWinds.com
Andronicus stands before city / St. Demetrius with spear and shield.
Andronicus III, kneeling at left, being blessed by the Virgin, standing at right / Anna of Savoy, holding trilobe scepter, & John V, holding akakia & scepter, standing facing.
Andronicus III Palaeologus (1328 - 1341 A.D.) AE Assarion of Constantinople.
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 Byzantine Coins of Andronicus I
Andronicus I, September 1183 - 12 September 1185 A.D. A quotation from Gibbons in "Decline & Fall": "one of the most conspicuous characters of the age." The reign of Andronicus was short and violent.
Andronicus was a wanderer and soldier of fortune.
In 1185, when the Normans sacked Thessalonica and Constantinople was threatened, Andronicus was killed by the mob that rose against him.
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 Ataman Hotel - Theodore Metochites
Byzantine prime minister and negotiator for Emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus, one of the principal literary and philosophical scholars of the 14th century.
The son of George Metochites, a prominent Eastern Orthodox cleric under Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus and a leading advocate of union with the Latin Church, Theodore became a favourite of Emperor Andronicus II and undertook various diplomatic missions to enlist help against the encroaching Ottoman Turks.
Because of his fidelity to Andronicus II, he was deprived of his wealth and exiled by Andronicus III.
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 Ancient Coins - HJB, Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Andronicus II and Michael IX; 1294-1320 AD or later, Trachy, Thessalonica, 1.47g.
Andronicus II; 1282-1294 or Later, AE Trachy, Constantinople, 0.89g.
Andronicus II and Michael IX; 1294-1320 or later, AE Trachy, Thessalonica, 1.83g.
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 andronicus - OneLook Dictionary Search
Andronicus : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
Andronicus : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include andronicus: andronicus i, andronicus ii, andronicus iii, andronicus ben meshullam, andronicus ii of trebizond, more...
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 Glebe Coins Home Page
The principal article is a comprehensive study of the Thessalonican trachies of Andronicus III, designed to correctly date and assign these various types.
The Notes section includes a critique of Bendall's 2000 hoard of mainly Andronicus II types, a note on the supposed "starred" version of S.2486, some unlisted Palaeologan types, and a detailed listing of the "Post-Hendy" Latin types.
The Data section includes details of various recent finds of Palaeologan types, plus a listing of all overstrikes and mules involving Andronicus II and Andronicus III types known to me, including quite a number of new examples from the recent finds.
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 The fatal disease of the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus (1328-1341 AD) -- Lascaratos and Marketos 90 (2): ...
The fatal disease of the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus (1328-1341 AD) -- Lascaratos and Marketos 90 (2): 106 -- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
The fatal disease of the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus (1328-1341 AD)
The Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus (1328-1341 AD) died at age
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 Andronicus III
He died in 1341, and was succeeded by his son, John V. Anna the wife of Andronicus III
Byzantine Emperor 1325– - 1341 with Andronicus II in 1325-1328
Preceded by: Andronicus II Succeeded by: John V Palaeologus
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 Byzantine coins of Andronicus II, Palaeologus
After Andronicus II did not select his popular grandson, Andronicus III as heir, he rose in revolt.
At first Andronicus II retained his titles and his home in the palace.
Andronicus II & III, Joint reign 2 February 1325 - 24 May 1328 A.D. After Andronicus II did not select his popular grandson and namesake as heir, Andronicus III rose in revolt.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 823 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Emp.; sent to Con­stantinople ; fruitless attempt to seize the crown ; imprisoned ; succeeded his son Joannes III.
(XV.) Joannes III., Emp.; born about 1322 ; wrested the crown from the empress Anna in Sep­tember, 1342 ; confined in a convent in March 1344 by the nobles who put his father Mi­chael on the throne.
in 1333 ; died in 1340 ; married, l,Irene(XIII.) natural daughter of An­dronicus II., emperor of annes III.(XV) Constantinople; repudi­ated soon afterwards ; seized the crown in 1340 ; reigned 15 months ; deposed and sent
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