John V Palaiologos
Byzantine emperor
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He reigned over Byzantium for half a century and watched it collapse in slow motion. John V Palaiologos held the throne longer than almost any Byzantine emperor — through plague, civil wars with his own family, and the steady advance of the Ottomans who turned his empire into a client state.
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John V became emperor at eight in 1332, triggering a civil war between his mother Anna of Savoy — who pawned the crown jewels to Venice for cash — and his regent John VI Kantakouzenos. Kantakouzenos claimed the throne in 1347, the same year the Black Death arrived. Another civil war erupted in 1352 when John V enlisted Serbian help against Kantakouzenos's son; the Ottomans used the chaos to seize their first foothold in Europe. John V took real power in 1354, then spent years begging the West for aid, converting to Catholicism before the Pope in 1369 in a failed bid for support. Venice impriso…
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