Eleven-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_IV_Laskaris" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John IV Laskaris">John IV Laskaris</a> of the restored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Eastern Roman Empire</a> is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaiologos" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Michael VIII Palaiologos">Michael VIII Palaiologos</a>.<sup about="#mwt90" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_25#cite_note-16" id="mwmw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwnA">[16]</span></a></sup>
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