Andronikos III Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor (r. 1328–1341)

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Lived 1297–1341, aged 44
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    1297–1341
    Aged 44
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Updated 2026-06-09

He seized the Byzantine throne from his own grandfather in 1328 and spent thirteen years trying to hold the empire's edges together — winning back islands in the Aegean, losing ground to the Ottomans in Anatolia — before dying young enough that the fight over his succession tore Byzantium apart.

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Andronikos III Palaiologos was proclaimed co-emperor before 1313, the son of Michael IX Palaiologos and Rita of Armenia. In April 1321 he rebelled against his grandfather, Andronikos II, was formally crowned co-emperor in February 1325, and ousted the old man entirely to become sole Byzantine emperor on 24 May 1328. His reign saw the last failed attempts to hold back the Ottoman Turks in Bithynia and a defeat at Rusokastro against the Bulgarians, but he successfully recovered Chios, Lesbos, Phocaea, Thessaly, and Epirus. He died on 15 June 1341, leaving a power vacuum that erupted into civil w…

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