or the over the empress and the empire. After Michael's failure to take the Trapezuntine throne, some of the leading figures, including Niketas Scholares, Gregory Meizomatis, Michael Meizomatis and Constantine Doranites, fled from Trebizond aboard a Venetian ship. Also accompanied by two warships of their own, the group travelled to Constantinople in order to implore John to claim the throne. John accepted and the group left Constantinople on 17 August. On the way back, they hired an additional three galleys from Genoa. In late August/September, the succeeding in deposing Anna and on 3 September 1342 she was strangled to death. A few days previously, on 27 August, John and his entourage arrived in Trebizond and disembarked in the eastern parts of the city, near its hippodrome. After short bursts of fighting in the streets, John's supporters forced their way into the imperial palace on 4 September 1342 and John became emperor as John III Megas Komnenos. After John's accession there was a purge of Anna's supporters, with many Lazes and being murdered, as well as many of Anna's supporters in the empire's provinces. In 1344, a monk by the name of Gerasimos, who lived at the monastery of Euthymius the Great in Jerusalem, wrote a remembrance of Anna. Notes References Bibliography 1342 deaths 14th-century emperors of Trebizond Empresses regnant of Trebizond Grand Komnenos dynasty 14th-century Byzantine nuns 14th-century women rulers Eastern Orthodox monarchs Year of birth unknown Women in war in Western Asia Princesses of Trebizond