Theodore, despot of the Morea, 1359-. The son of Andronicus IV was JOHN VII (co-emperor), 1399-1403. _The Cantacuzeni_ JOHN VI, regent, 1341-7, co-emperor, 1347-55, two of whose daughters married Orkhan and John V, and whose son was MATTHEW, co-emperor, 1355-6. HUNGARY LOUIS THE GREAT, 1342-82 (King of Poland, 1370-82). His two daughters were: Hedwig, to whom fell the crown of Poland, and who married Jagello of Lithuania, who became King of Poland under the Christian name of Ladislas V. Mary, to whom fell the crown of Hungary, 1382-92. Mary married SIGISMUND of Luxemburg in 1386, who became sole ruler of Hungary after Mary’s death, and, later, Holy Roman Emperor. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE _House of Luxemburg_ CHARLES IV (I as King of Bohemia), 1355-78. His two sons were: WENCESLAUS, who succeeded to the imperial crown on the death of his father and was deposed in 1400; and SIGISMUND, King of Hungary, who was elected emperor in 1410. FRANCE PHILIPPE IV, _le Bel_, 1285-1314, and his sons LOUIS X, PHILIPPE V, and CHARLES IV, last of the Capetians. 1314-28. PHILIPPE VI VALOIS, 1328-50. JEAN, 1350-64. CHARLES V, 1365-80. CHARLES VI, 1380-1422. Philippe de Bourgogne, son of King Jean, and father of Jean de Nevers, and Louis d’Orléans, second son of Charles V, were vying with each other for the control of their insane nephew and brother, Charles VI, during the reign of Bayezid. ENGLAND EDWARD I, 1270-1307. EDWARD II, 1307-27. EDWARD III, 1327-77 (took the title of King of France in 1339). RICHARD III, 1377-99. Deposed in 1399, and succeeded by HENRY IV (of Lancaster). V. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY IN BYZANTINE HISTORY 1300--The emir of Menteshe invades Rhodes. 1301--First Byzantine defeat at hands of Osmanlis at Baphaeon. 1302--Michael IX takes command of Slavic mercenaries in Asia Minor: they force him to allow their return to Europe. Roger de Flor arrives at Constantinople with eight thousand Catalans, and is married to a niece of Andronicus. 1303--Catalans sack the island of Chios. 1305--Death of Ghazan Khan frustrates Byzantine hopes of a Mongol attack upon the emirs of Asia Minor. Catalans compel the emir of Karamania to lift the siege of Philadelphia, but quarrel with Greeks and Slavic mercenaries. Roger exacts title of ‘Caesar’ from Andronicus, and is later assassinated by Michael IX at Adrianople. 1306-9--Catalan ‘Grand Company’ forms state at Gallipoli. 1310--Catalans leave for Greece, and set up military democracy in Athens. The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem capture Rhodes. 1311--The emir of Menteshe fails in attempt to recapture Rhodes. 1311-14--Turkish freebooter Halil defies the Emperor in the Thracian Chersonese, and is finally defeated with the help of the Serbians. 1317--Brusa, Nicaea, and Nicomaedia begin to be menaced. 1326--Brusa falls. Andronicus III, on his wedding trip from Constantinople to Demotika, is set upon and wounded by raiding Turks.