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Born 1292
Died June 15, 1383 (aged 91) • Mistra • Greece
Title / Office emperor (1347-1354), Byzantine Empire

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John VI Cantacuzenus, detail from an illuminated manuscript, 14th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Gr. 1242).
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