Theodore II Laskaris
Emperor of Nicaea from 1254 to 1258
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The boy emperor who preferred philosophers to generals ruled a Byzantine successor state from exile, trying to rebuild an empire that had been stolen by crusaders — and died at thirty-six with everything still unfinished.
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Theodore II Doukas Laskaris was born in November 1221 or 1222, the only child of Emperor John III Vatatzes of Nicaea, the Greek empire-in-exile carved from Asia Minor after crusaders took Constantinople in 1204. Educated by renowned scholars Nikephoros Blemmydes and George Akropolites, he wrote treatises on theology, history and philosophy as a young man and kept company with intellectuals, including a low-born page named George Mouzalon. In 1235 his father married him to Elena Asenina of Bulgaria to secure an alliance; Theodore later said the marriage was happy, and they had five or six child…
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