The Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328 is a series of conflicts fought in the 1320s between the East Roman (Byzantine) emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and his grandson Andronikos III Palaiologos over control of the Empire.
“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."