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Laskaris

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House of Laskaris
CountryEmpire of Nicea
TitlesEmperor of the Romans
FounderTheodore I Laskaris
Final rulerJohn IV Laskaris

The House of Laskaris (Greek: Λάσκαρης) was a Byzantine Greek noble family who was the ruling dynasty of the Empire of Nicaea from 1204 to 1261. Remaining among the senior nobility up to the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 during the Fall of Constantinople after which many moved to Italy and then later to Smyrna.