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JOHN ANGELUS (d. 1244)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN
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ANGELUS (d. 1244)
  , emperor of Thessalonica . In 1232 he received the
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throne from his
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father Theodore, who, after a period of exile, had re-established his authority, but owing to his loss of eyesight resolved to make John the nominal
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sovereign . His reign is chiefly marked by the aggressions of the
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rival emperor of Nicaea, John Vatatzes, who laid siege to Thessalonica in 1243 and only withdrew upon John
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Angelus consenting to
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exchange the title " emperor " for the subordinate one of "despot." See G . Finlay,
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History of
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Greece, vol. iii . (1877) .

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