sentences:  After the Nicaeans regained Constantinople and re-established the Byzantine Empire, Michael deposed John IV and later blinded him.According to Pachymeres, around this time Michael fell in love with Anna and attempted to marry her, but the widowed Empress rejected him.Deno Geanakoplos points out "what militates against Pachymeres' statement, however, is the question why Michael, merely for love of Anna, would be willing to risk almost certain excommunication by the Patriarch Arsenios without the gaining of an important political benefit."