Alexios Angelos Philanthropenos

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Alexios Angelos Philanthropenos , Middle Greek Ἁλέξιος Ἂγγελος Φιλανθρωπηνός (* before 1373; † between December 1389 and March 1393) was lord of Thessaly from 1373 to about 1390 , from 1382 as a Byzantine vassal .

Life

Alexios came from the Byzantine noble family of Philanthropenoi , who had been at the top of the Byzantine military aristocracy since the middle of the 13th century. The wealthy magnate belonged to the retinue of the Nemanjid Tsar of Thessaly, Simeon Uroš Palaiologos , to whose wife Thomais Orsini he was related. His own wife Maria Radoslava was a granddaughter of Stefan Dušan .

When Tsar Simeon died in 1370/71, his son Jovan Uroš nominally assumed rule in Trikala . This was primarily dedicated to his religious interests and gave Alexios the control of state affairs. In 1373 Uroš abdicated in favor of Alexios and retired as a monk Joasaph in a Meteora monastery. In 1382 Alexios recognized the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire. In return, he gave Manuel II. Palaiologos , who as co-emperor John V the prerogative Thessaloniki held, the Kaisar title. In 1384 he bequeathed the Kastron Kolydros near Larisa to the Nea Moni in Thessaloniki.

Alexios Angelos Philanthropenos is mentioned for the last time in 1389 when he provided the despot of Ioannina , Esau de 'Buondelmonti , with troops for the victorious fight against Albanian tribes in Epirus . In October of that year he was in Ioannina and had to go to the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I together with Buondelmonti in order to accept his sovereignty. After his death (around 1390) his son (or brother, nephew) Manuel became lord of Thessaly.

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literature

  • George T. Dennis: The Reign of Manuel II Palaeologus in Thessalonica, 1382-1387 (= Orientalia Christiana Analecta . Vol. 159). Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, Rome 1960, pp. 104-105.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Повеље севастократора и кесара . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 23, 1984, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 105-118, here: pp. 114-118.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Тесалија у XIII и XIV веку (= Посебна издања . Vol. 15). Византолошки институт САНУ, Београд 1974, pp. 265–281.
  • John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 .
  • Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 .
  • Raymond-Joseph Loenertz : Notes sur le règne de Manuel II à Thessalonique. In: Byzantine Journal . Vol. 50, 1957, pp. 390-396, here: pp. 392-394.
  • Ljubomir Maksimović: The Byzantine provincial administration under the Palaiologoi. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0968-6 , p. 136.
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479. A contribution to the history of Greece in the middle ages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984, ISBN 0-521-26190-2 , pp. 152-153, 158, 162.
  • George Christos Soulis: The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his successors. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC 1984, ISBN 0-88402-137-8 , OCLC 59251762 , p. 335.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Ioannes G. Leontiades, Sokrates Kaplaneres: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 12. Fascicle: Τοβλάταν - Ωράνιος (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/12). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2072-9 , pp. 90-91 No. 29750.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See ODB , pp. 1649, 2074; Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , pp. 352 f.
  2. ↑ See PLP 12, p. 90.
  3. ↑ See ODB, pp. 1649, 2074; Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 355.
personal data
SURNAME Alexios Angelos Philanthropenos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἁλέξιος Ἂγγελος Φιλανθρωπηνός (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine emperor, lord of Thessaly
DATE OF BIRTH before 1373
DATE OF DEATH between December 1389 and March 1393