Andronikos III Palaiologos: The Last Roman Revival

This video looks at the reign of Andronikos III Palaiologos from 1328-1341.

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Predocessor: Andronikos II

Successor: John V

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'Theme of the WLO', 'Accretion Disk' and 'War Situation' by Hayato Matsuo, Noriyuki Kamikura, Azusa Chiba and Hitoshi Sakimoto from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together by Quest and Square Enix.
'Rise and Fall Main Theme' and 'Ambient' by Jason Graves from Rise and Fall Civilisations at War by Stainless Steel Studios and Midway Games.
'Euro Battle 1', Euro Battle 3' and Euro Summer 1' by Jeff Van Dyke from Medieval Total War by Creative Assembly.
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[EasternRomanHistory]

The Age of Empires II Campaign:
Part 1 Fighting Bulgaria and the Ottomans and beating up Genoa
Part 2 Conquering Epirus and Thessaly
Part 3 Civil War!

[Tommykey]

It looks like Andronikos III and John Kantakouzenos realized Anatolia was a lost cause and were working to create a geographically contiguous Greek state. Had Andronikos lived another ten years they might have succeeded in annexing the remaining petty Latin states in central Greece. If the civil war of the 1340s doesn't happen, maybe the Ottomans never cross over into Europe.

[AndreasFly]

If only he didn't die that abruptly and secured his son as heir the Empire could stand a bit more instead of plunging into two civil wars that gave up everything Andronikos fought to for.
Nice video, didn't expect another host but he did a great job

[hopeprevails]

He and Constantine XI are the last good emperors of Rome. Andronikos III is really somewhat like a Majorian situation. If he reigned longer and provided a stable succession, the Romans could've survived perhaps the next two centuries. He lost crucial cities and territories in Anatolia tho, which in the long run proved deadly for the empire. Michael VIII should've focused more on the asian lands and if Andonikos II wasn't as incapable as he was, Byzantium could've experienced another golden age.

[EasternRomanHistory]

A quick note, 9:34 John II Orsini was poisoned in 1335 but the rest of the events i describe ocuured in 1337. I didn't notice this small error until after I published the video.

[Constantine_Bush]

The Roman revival, not the byzantine one.This is a foreign term.Otherwise, this was a very well done video.Continue the great work!

[ninohergotic]

My heart goes to all the Greeks on this world, they should have taken Konstantinopolis and all of the Anatolia after the WWI.

[Ruairitrick]

"As you may have already realized, this isn't the same voice that you're use to" Could of fooled of me.

[lucyfaire]

I am Greek and sadly this is how things end up for us. Instead of looking out for the empire's(or country nowadays) wellbeing, we always fuck it up with inner conflicts and corruption. Basically, how every empire ends.

[daniellinanmolina]

dope video. i didnt think there was a single competent andronikos, but this opened my eyes. once again, great job

[SuperWalshBros]

If he ruled in a more stable time he probably would have become one of the great conquering Emperors. In hindsight like his great grandfather Michael he should have focused more on Asia Minor but it may have just resulted in more if not worse defeats from the Ottomans.

[Urlocallordandsavior]

It's kind of interesting that the modern borders of Greece mostly correspond to Andronikos III's homogeneous and land continuous Greek Empire, although the Greek gains during the Turkish War for Independence even more resembles the borders of 14th century Byzantium.

[dylanthomas]

Great video bloody fascinating.. literally.

[ironearth]

Great video ERH. ;) This collab was fun, we should do it again sometime!

[Sandouras]

Every time a good emperor improves and stabilises the situation, fate decides to plunge byzantium even deeper into the abyss. Again and again, you think byzantium will make it, and then they go and ruin it. It's as if the Ottomans were railroaded to greatness because byzantium kept shooting itself in the foot.

[forianproductions]

From my knowledge, (which is somewhat limited in terms of byzantine history so I may be wrong) if his son John V wasnt an idiot (under his rule, the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire lost all territories except for Constaninople and tiny chunks of Greece), the empire could've had a proper revival.

[GoryWory]

12:07
you described it pretty vaguely.
It is more than just see the God's light..

[Hiroakiarai]

if he lived longer he would've probably conquered greece. im not sure about anatolia but he would've been one of the good emperors. dont think he would prolonged the empire's lifetime by long though. still a good emperor in my opinion

[greekmanjason]

can you make a video about heraclius
a very interesting emperor in my opinion

[apostolispouliakis]

Maybe not a great reign but a successful one