History of the Ottoman Empire: Including a Survey of the Greek Empire And ...
History of the Ottoman Empire: Including a Survey of the Greek Empire And ...
Jacob Samuel
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But his empty offers had meanwhile se- duced the cupidity of Charles of Anjou, king of the Sicilies, to be- stow a daughter upon his son Philip as the heir to the titular diadem of the East, and to undertake the reconquest and partition of the Greek empire. The mingled prudence and good fortune of Palaeo- logus defeated this design. His measures to conciliate the papacy by an acknowledgment of its spiritual supremacy, and a union of the Greek and Latin churches, belong to ecclesiastical history..., as does also his success in averting a formidable invasion of his domi- nions by the French chivalry under Charles of Anjou, through the subsidies with which he supported the revolt of Sicily against that prince. The domestic reign of Palaeologus was disturbed by a cruel persecution of his reluctant subjects to enforce their submission to the Papal authority ; which, as his own insincerity in that cause was notorious, rendered his hypocritical policy the more atrocious. On Andronious his death, after a memorable reign of twenty-three years, the Elder, of which the last nine had been shared by his son Andro- A.D.1282.
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