A history dork like me would remember this...LOL. Nonetheless, the last emperor, Constantinos Paleologos (spelled a bunch of different ways), fought the Turks to the end. He probably died with his men but no one knows for sure. The Turks found someone with purple boots, thought he was the Emperor and chopped his head off. As they paraded it around, the Turks noticed no one recognized the severed head....
The last Roman Emperor and King of the Greeks was probably interred in a mass grave with a lot of Byzantine, Italian, and Turkish soldiers but we don't really know. One legend is that an angel swooped out of the heavens and took him to an underground cave and turned him to marble to awaken on day to retake the city back from the Turks.
Or maybe he is running a liqour store in South Philly....
When you look down at the picture of the final siege of Constantinople, does it not look a little like the siege of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings? Maybe the great Tolkien took some inspirtation from that terrible mid fifteenth century Tuesday?
If that is the case, he did a great job with it!
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