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| 1282–1328 |
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| ANDRONICUS II, the son of Michael, a learned, pious, but weak ruler whose first move was to give up the hated union with Rome and conciliate the Orthodox clergy. | 1 |
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| 1285 |
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| Venice deserted the Angevin alliance and made a ten-year peace with the Greeks. | 2 |
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| 1295–1320 |
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| MICHAEL IX, son of Andronicus, co-emperor with his father. | 3 |
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| 1296 |
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| The Serbs, continuing their advance, conquered western Macedonia and northern Albania. Andronicus was obliged to recognize these losses (1298). | 4 |
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| 1302 |
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| Peace between the Angevins and the Aragonese. Andronicus, once again exposed to Angevin ambition, engaged Roger de Flor, commander of a body of mercenaries called the Catalan Grand Company, to fight against the Italians. They raised havoc at Constantinople, where 3,000 Italians are said to have been killed in the disorders. | 5 |
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| 1302, July 27 |
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| At Bapheus in Bithynia (northwest Asia Minor) the Ottoman Turks inflicted a severe defeat on the Greeks under George Mouzalon; fatal weakening of the Byzantine position, with Bithynia soon overrun by the Ottomans. | 6 |
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| 1304 |
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| The Catalans repulsed an attack of the Turks on Philadelphia, but then turned and attacked Constantinople (1305–7), without being able to take it. | 7 |
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| 1305 |
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| Murder of Roger de Flor. The Catalan Company became a veritable scourge, roaming through Thrace and Macedonia and laying waste to the country. | 8 |
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| 1311 |
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| The Catalans, having advanced into Greece, took the duchy of Athens, where they set up a dynasty of their own. | 9 |
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| 1321–28 |
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| Civil war between the emperor and his grandson Andronicus. In the course of the struggle much of the empire was devastated. | 10 |
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| 1325 |
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| Andronicus was obliged to accept his grandson as co-emperor. | 11 |
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| 1328–41 |
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| ANDRONICUS III, the grandson of Andronicus II, who forced the emperor's abdication (d. 1332). Andronicus III was a frivolous and irresponsible ruler, unequal to the great problems presented by the rise of the Ottoman and Serb powers. | 12 |
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