“ Michael VII., son of Constantine Ducas and Eudoxia, succeeded his father, 1067; and being dethroned by Nicephorus Botoniates in 1078, retired to a monastery, and died Archbishop of Ephesus. Michael VIII., surnamed Palæologus, regent of the empire during the minority of John Lascaris, whom he deprived of his eyes and throne in 1260, and in the following year took Constantinople. ”