 Palaiologos

The Palaiologos ( Palaiologoi; , pl., female version Palaiologina; ), also found in English-language literature as Palaeologus or Palaeologue, was the name of a Byzantine Greek family, which rose to nobility and ultimately produced the last and longest-ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, ruling as Emperors and Autocrats of the Romans for almost two hundred years, from 1259 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.