This is a family tree of all the
Eastern Roman Emperors
This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, to Fall of Constantinople, its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. On ...
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#284–518''
518–711
717–1453
See also
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Family tree of Roman emperors
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List of Roman emperors
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List of Byzantine emperors
This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, to its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as le ...
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History of the Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine Empire under the Constantinian and Valentinianic dynasties
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Byzantine Empire under the Theodosian dynasty
The Eastern Roman empire, Eastern Roman Empire was ruled by the Theodosian dynasty from 379, the accession of Theodosius I, to 457, the death of Marcian. The rule of the Theodosian dynasty saw the final East-West division of the Roman Empire, betw ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Leonid dynasty
The Eastern Roman Empire was ruled by the House of Leo from AD 457, the accession of Leo I, to 518, the death of Anastasius I. The rule of the Leonid dynasty coincided with the rapid decline, collapse and eventual fall of the Western Roman Empir ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Heraclian dynasty
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Twenty Years' Anarchy
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Byzantine Empire under the Isaurian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Amorian dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by the Amorian or Phrygian dynasty from 820 to 867. The Amorian dynasty continued the policy of restored iconoclasm (the "Second Iconoclasm") started by the previous non-dynastic emperor Leo V in 813, until its abol ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty
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Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Doukas dynasty between 1059 and 1081. There are six emperors and co-emperors of this period: the dynasty's founder, Emperor Constantine X Doukas (r. 1059–1067), his brother John Doukas, ''k ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by emperors of the Komnenos dynasty for a period of 104 years, from 1081 to about 1185. The ''Komnenian'' (also spelled ''Comnenian'') period comprises the reigns of five emperors, Alexios I, John II, Manuel I, A ...
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Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
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Laskarid dynasty (Empire of Nicaea)
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Grand Komnenos (Empire of Trebizond)
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Komnenos Doukas (Empire of Thessalonica)
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Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty
The Byzantine Empire was ruled by the Palaiologos dynasty in the period between 1261 and 1453, from the restoration of Byzantine rule to Constantinople by the usurper Michael VIII Palaiologos following its recapture from the Latin Empire, founded ...
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Byzantine imperial dynasties, Family tree of
Byzantine monarchs
Family tree
Byzantine monarchs
Descent from antiquity