John V Palaiologos
John V Palaiologos (1332–1391), son of Andronikos III and Anna of Savoy, inherited the throne at nine in 1341 and reigned as the empire slid toward Ottoman vassalage. In the regency civil war Anna pawned the crown jewels to Venice in 1343. The peace of 1347 made John VI Kantakouzenos senior emperor and married John to his daughter Helena. War resumed in 1352, and the Ottomans won their first European territory amid the chaos. John took real power in 1354.
Seeking Western help, he became a Catholic in Rome in 1369, but Venice detained him for debt; in 1371 he accepted Sultan Murad I as suzerain.
His son Andronikos IV deposed him in 1376 and his grandson John VII in 1390. That year Bayezid I, threatening to blind his hostage son Manuel, forced him to dismantle the newly strengthened Golden Gate. He died in 1391 and Manuel succeeded him.
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