IV. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF RULERS
Byzantine Empire[799]
The Palaeologi
Andronicus II (the Old), 1282-1328.
Michael IX (co-emperor), 1295-1320.
Andronicus III (the Young), 1328-41, by whose second wife, Anna of Savoy, was born
John V, 1341-01, whose three sons were:
Andronicus IV (co-emperor), 1355-?
Manuel II, 1391-1425.
Theodore, despot of the Morea, 1359-.
The son of Andronicus IV was
John VII (co-emperor), 1399-1403.
The Cantacuzeni
John VI, regent, 1341-7, co-emperor, 1347-55, two of whose daughters married Orkhan and John V, and whose son was
Matthew, co-emperor, 1355-6.
Hungary
Louis the Great, 1342-82 (King of Poland, 1370-82).
His two daughters were:
Hedwig, to whom fell the crown of Poland, and who married Jagello of Lithuania, who became King of Poland under the Christian name of Ladislas V.
Mary, to whom fell the crown of Hungary, 1382-92.
Mary married
Sigismund of Luxemburg in 1386, who became sole ruler of Hungary after Mary’s death, and, later, Holy Roman Emperor.
Holy Roman Empire
House of Luxemburg
Charles IV (I as King of Bohemia), 1355-78.
His two sons were:
Wenceslaus, who succeeded to the imperial crown on the death of his father and was deposed in 1400;
and Sigismund, King of Hungary, who was elected emperor in 1410.
France
Philippe IV, le Bel, 1285-1314, and his sons
Louis X, Philippe V, and Charles IV, last of the Capetians. 1314-28.
Philippe VI Valois, 1328-50.
Jean, 1350-64.
Charles VI, 1380-1422.
Philippe de Bourgogne, son of King Jean, and father of Jean de Nevers, and Louis d’Orléans, second son of Charles V, were vying with each other for the control of their insane nephew and brother, Charles VI, during the reign of Bayezid.
England
Edward I, 1270-1307.
Edward II, 1307-27.
Edward III, 1327-77
(took the title of King of France in 1339).
Richard III, 1377-99.
Deposed in 1399, and succeeded by
Henry IV (of Lancaster).