Family tree of Byzantine emperors explained

This is a family tree of all the Eastern Roman Emperors who ruled in Constantinople. Most of the Eastern emperors were related in some form to their predecessors, sometimes by direct descent or by marriage. From the Doukid dynasty (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

See also

• Family tree of Roman emperors
• List of Roman emperors
• List of Byzantine emperors
• History of the Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine Empire under the Constantinian and Valentinianic dynasties
• Byzantine Empire under the Theodosian dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Leonid dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Heraclian dynasty
• Twenty Years' Anarchy
• Byzantine Empire under the Isaurian dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Amorian dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty
• Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty
• Laskarid dynasty (Empire of Nicaea)
• Grand Komnenos (Empire of Trebizond)
• Komnenos Doukas (Empire of Thessalonica)
• Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty

References

• Book: Ostrogorsky, George. History of the Byzantine State. New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. 1997 . 978-0-8135-1198-6 . registration.