that the documents of Charles of Anjou were intended to serve as propaganda, "to attract the support of the legitimist, pro-Lascarid Greeks of the Byzantine Empire, as well as to sway the anti-Angevin sentiment of the still surviving Greek population of Charles' own territories of southern Italy and Sicily." In 1290 John was visited by Michael VIII's son and successor Andronikos II Palaiologos, who sought forgiveness for his father's blinding three decades earlier. As Donald Nicol notes, "The occasion must have been embarrassing for both parties, but especially for Andronikos who, after all, was the beneficiary of his father's crimes against John Laskaris." The deposed emperor died about 1305 and was eventually recognized as a saint, whose memory was revered in Constantinople in the 14th century. Ancestry See also List of Byzantine emperors References Bibliography - Total pages: 245 Further reading The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991. John 04 John 04 Monarchs deposed as children John 04 13th-century Byzantine emperors 14th-century Byzantine people 1250 births 1305 deaths Greek Christian monks Eastern Orthodox monarchs Byzantine prisoners and detainees Michael VIII Palaiologos Sons of Byzantine emperors