This is a family tree of all the
Eastern Roman Emperors
This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, to its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as l ...
who ruled in
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
. Most of the Eastern emperors were related in some form to their predecessors, sometimes by direct descent or by marriage. From the
Doukid dynasty
The House of Doukas, Latinized as Ducas ( el, Δούκας; feminine: Doukaina/Ducaena, Δούκαινα; plural: Doukai/Ducae, Δοῦκαι), from the Latin title '' dux'' ("leader", "general", Hellenized as 'ðouks'', is the name of a Byzan ...
(1059) onwards all emperors are related to the same family.
Dynasty names are given in capitals so that they can be picked out from the interweaving trees. Junior co-emperors who never exercised real power are shown in a smaller font to distinguish them from the reigning emperor.
286–518
''This is a simplified family tree centered solely around the Eastern Empire, for a fuller list that includes both Eastern and Western emperors, see
Family tree of Roman emperors#284–518''
518–711
717–1453
See also
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Family tree of Roman emperors
This is a family tree of Roman emperors, showing only the relationships between the emperors.
27 BCE–192 CE
The emperors from Augustus to Commodus can be organised into one large family tree.
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List of Roman emperors
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List of Byzantine emperors
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History of the Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine Empire under the Constantinian and Valentinianic dynasties
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Byzantine Empire under the Theodosian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Leonid dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty
The Byzantine Empire had its first golden age under the Justinian dynasty, which began in 518 AD with the accession of Justin I. Under the Justinian dynasty, particularly the reign of Justinian I, the empire reached its greatest territorial exte ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Heraclian dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the dynasty of Heraclius between 610 and 711. The Heraclians presided over a period of cataclysmic events that were a watershed in the history of the Empire and the world.
Heraclius, the founder of ...
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Twenty Years' Anarchy
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Byzantine Empire under the Isaurian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Amorian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Doukas dynasty between 1059 and 1081. There are six emperors and co-emperors of this period: the dynasty's founder, Emperor Constantine X Doukas (r. 1059–1067), his brother John Doukas, ''k ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Komnenos dynasty for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to about 1185. The ''Komnenian'' (also spelled ''Comnenian'') period comprises the reigns of five emperors, Alexios I, John II, Manuel I, ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty
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Laskarid dynasty (Empire of Nicaea)
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Grand Komnenos (Empire of Trebizond)
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Komnenos Doukas (Empire of Thessalonica)
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Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty
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References
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Byzantine monarchs
Family tree
A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.
Representations ...
Byzantine monarchs
Descent from antiquity