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John VI Kantakouzenos
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
John VI presiding over a synod, c. 1370–1375
Byzantine emperor
Reign
8 February 1347 – 10 December 1354
Coronation
21 May 1347
Predecessor
John V Palaiologos (alone)
Successor
John V Palaiologos (alongside Matthew)
Co-monarch
John V Palaiologos Matthew Kantakouzenos
Born
1292 Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
Died
15 June 1383 (aged 90/91) Despotate of the Morea
Burial
Mistra, Peloponnese, Greece
Spouse
Irene Asanina
Issue
Matthew Kantakouzenos Manuel Kantakouzenos Andronikos Kantakouzenos Maria Kantakouzene Theodora Kantakouzene Helena Kantakouzene
Names
John Angelos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos Ἰωάννης Ἄγγελος [Κομνηνός] Παλαιολόγος Καντακουζηνός
House
Kantakouzenos
Father
Michael Kantakouzenos
Mother
Theodora Palaiologina Angelina
Religion
Greek Orthodox
John VI Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzene[1] (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ἄγγελος Παλαιολόγος Καντακουζηνός, Iōánnēs Ángelos Palaiológos Kantakouzēnós;[2] Latin: Johannes Cantacuzenus;[3]c. 1292 – 15 June 1383[4]) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman, statesman, and general. He served as grand domestic under Andronikos III Palaiologos and regent for John V Palaiologos before reigning as Byzantine emperor in his own right from 1347 to 1354. Deposed by his former ward, he was forced to retire to a monastery under the name Joasaph Christodoulos (Greek: Ἰωάσαφ Χριστόδουλος) and spent the remainder of his life as a monk and historian. At age 90 or 91 at his death, he was the longest-lived of the Roman emperors.
^EB (1911), p. 438.
^McLaughlin (2017), p. 14. "Kantakouzēnos inherited the names of Angelos and Palaiologos from his mother, and was occasionally addressed as Komnenos too."
^EB (1878).
^John VI Cantacuzenus at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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