Alusian

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Alusian flees from Thessaloniki after the defeat (1040). Miniature from the Madrid illuminated manuscript of the Skylitz

Alusian (also Alusjan , Alusianos , Bulgarian Алусиан , Middle Greek Ἀλουσιάνος ; * around 1000, † after 1068) was a Bulgarian prince and rebel against the Byzantine emperor Michael IV.

Life

Alusian came from the Komitopuli family and was probably the second eldest son of Tsar Ivan Wladislaw . He had five brothers ( Presian , Aaron, Traianos, Radomir, Klimen) and six sisters. After the death of Ivan Wladislav and the conquest of the Bulgarian Empire in February 1018 by Emperor Basil II , Alusian and his brothers fled to Mount Tomorr , but finally had to give up their resistance. The brothers were accepted as dignitaries at the court in Constantinople , with Alusian receiving the title of patrician .

At the time of Emperor Michael IV. Alusian was strategos of Theodosiopolis . However, in September 1040 he fell out of favor with the regent Johannes Orphanotrophos , whereupon he secretly fled the empire to join the rebellion of his cousin Peter Deljan against Byzantine rule that had broken out in Bulgaria . Alusian was accepted as co-regent and was given command of a Bulgarian army that suffered heavy losses during the siege of Thessaloniki . After further military failures, Deljan was overthrown and blinded by Alusian in September 1041 . He was then recognized as the ruler of the Bulgarians, but submitted to Emperor Michael IV, probably to protect his Armenian wife and four children who had stayed in Constantinople. In gratitude for his cooperation, Michael IV appointed him Magistros .

The last news about Alusian dates back to 1068 when he was in Armenia . His descendants, the Alusianoi , remained present in the Byzantine aristocracy in the centuries that followed. His daughter Anna was the wife of the future emperor Romanos Diogenes .

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literature

  • Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Series Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 9). Reimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantines, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , p. 52 No. 51.
  • Franz Dölger : Regest of the imperial documents of the Eastern Roman Empire from 565-1453. Part 1, half volume 2: Regesten from 867-1025 (= corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times. Row A: Regesten. Dept. 1, Part 1, half volume 2). 2nd edition revised by Andreas E. Müller . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-51351-4 , No. 804h.
  • Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , p. 70.
  • Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Beate Zielke, Harald Bichlmeier, Bettina Krönung, Daniel Föller, Alexander Beihammer , Günter Prinzing : Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 2nd department: (867-1025). Volume 1: A ... i ... (# 20001) - Christophoros (# 21278). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-016666-8 , pp. 170–171 No. 20263.
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 1: Aaron - Azarethes . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52303-3 , pp. 171-172.
  • Paul Stephenson: Byzantium′s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans 900-1204. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-77017-3 , pp. 71-73, 130-133, 308.
  • Paul Meinhard Strässle: War and Warfare in Byzantium. The wars of Emperor Basil II against the Bulgarians. (976-1019), Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-17405-7 .

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SURNAME Alusian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alusjan; Алусиан (Bulgarian); Ἀλουσιάνος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian prince and Byzantine strategos
DATE OF BIRTH around 1000
DATE OF DEATH after 1068