# Constantine XI Palaiologos

> The last Roman emperor died sword in hand on the walls of Constantinople in 1453, ending an empire that had stood for over a thousand years. Legend later refused his death entirely: Greek folklore turned him to marble beneath the city gates, waiting for God's call to return.

*Last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/constantine-xi-palaiologos

## Identity
- **Born:** 1404-02-08
- **Died:** 1453-05-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Constantine was the fourth son of Manuel II Palaiologos and Helena Dragaš, born 8 February 1404, and spent the 1420s proving himself a capable general. With his brothers he ruled the Morea, pushing Byzantine territory across nearly the entire Peloponnese for the first time since the Fourth Crusade and rebuilding the Hexamilion wall that guarded it. When his childless brother John VIII died in October 1448, Constantine was proclaimed emperor on 6 January 1449, inheriting a empire reduced to a city surrounded entirely by the Ottomans. In April 1453, Sultan Mehmed II arrived with perhaps 80,000 men; Constantine's defenders numbered less than a tenth of that. He refused to abandon Constantinople and died fighting on 29 May 1453, the day the city fell. Some saw symmetry in the arc: the New Rome founded under Constantine the Great, lost under another Constantine, just as Old Rome had been founded by a Romulus and fell under Romulus Augustulus.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 63.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 19.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 28.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 40.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Medieval Era

## Sources
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- [Kustentin XI Palaiologos](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kustentin_XI_Palaiologos)
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- [کۆنستانتینی یازدەیەم](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%86%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%DB%95%D9%85)
- [Konstantin XI. Dragases](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_XI._Dragases)
- [Cystennin XI Palaiologos](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystennin_XI_Palaiologos)
- [Konstantin 11. Palaiologos](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_11._Palaiologos)
- [Konstantin XI.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_XI.)
- [Konstantinos XI](https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos_XI)
- [Κωνσταντίνος ΙΑ΄ Παλαιολόγος](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%99%CE%91%CE%84_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%82)
- [Konstanteno la 11-a](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanteno_la_11-a)
- [Constantino XI Paleólogo](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantino_XI_Pale%C3%B3logo)
- [Konstantinos XI](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos_XI)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Costantino_XI_Paleologo)
- [Wikiquote](https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Konstantyn_XI_Paleolog)
- [Wikiquote](https://sr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_XI_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3_%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%88)
- [Konstantyn XI Palaiologos](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantyn_XI_Palaiologos)

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