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Chronological Table
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Sixth century:
-built either by Justinian I (527-565) in his private Hormisdas Palace or by his successor Justin II (565-578) south of the Constantinian part of the Great Palace.
- decorated by Tiberios (578-582).
Seventh century
- connected to the Constantinian part of the Great Palace by the Lausiakos and Justinianos halls built by Justinian II in his first reign (685-695).
Eight to twelfth centuries
- redecorated by Michael III (842-867).
- served as the main audience and dining hall of the Great Palace and of the Boukoleon Palace (the latter created by Nikephoros II Phocas in the late tenth century by fortifying the southern area of the Great Palace). From the late eleventh century onwards the emperors, however, preferred the Blachernae Palace.
Latin Empire and Late Byzantine period (1204-1453)
- Boukoleon Palace with the Chrysotriklinos served as a residence of the Latin Emperors (1204-1261).
- Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologos (1259-1282) lived in the Boukoleon palace (and probably also used the Chrysotriklinos) for some time after the Byzantine re-conquest of Constantinople in 1261 before the Blachernae Palace was refurbished.
- From the late thirteenth century on the emperors visited the Boukoleon Palace only rarely and the buildings there decayed (The Chrysotriklinos is last mentioned in 1308). Nevertheless, the ruins of the palace were still impressive and admired by Russian pilgrims and western Europeans in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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