Andreas Asanes

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Andreas Asanes ( Middle Greek Ἀνδρέας Ἀσάνης ; Bulgarian Андрей Асен ; † after 1355) was a Byzantine aristocrat of Bulgarian origin. Together with his brother Michael Asanes , he was designated governor of Morea in 1354/55 .

Life

Andreas was a member of a branch of the Bulgarian ruling family Assen (Greek Asanes ), who had lived in the Byzantine Empire since the late 13th century and had numerous high officials and dignitaries until the end of the empire in the 15th century. Through his father Isaak Palaiologos Asanes he was a grandson of Tsar Ivan Assen III. (1279-1280) and Irene Palaiologina . Andreas' older siblings were Andronikos , Michael and Irene ; his cousin Irene Asanina was with Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos married.

Nothing is known about Andreas' childhood and youth, but he and his siblings must have grown up and brought up in close proximity to the Byzantine imperial court. After the deposition of John VI. In December 1354 Michael and Andreas Asanes were commissioned by his rival Emperor Johannes V to expel the despot Manuel Kantakuzenos , who was appointed governor in 1349, from Morea . When they arrived in the Peloponnese in autumn 1355, the Asanes brothers won the support of some local archons who had previously rebelled against the despot in vain. Manuel Kantakuzenos withdrew behind the walls of Mistra , while the Asanoi sacked the Venetian possessions of Modon and Coron in order to gather more supporters by distributing booty. The Venetians then sided with Manuel, as did the vast majority of the peninsula's population. In view of the hopelessness of their endeavor, Andreas and Michael Asanes returned to Constantinople. John V was forced to formally recognize Manuel Kantakuzenos as imperial governor, but de facto as the autonomous ruler of Morea.

The further fate of Andreas Asanes is unknown, but he probably still lived in Constantinople in 1373/74.

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literature

  • 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 .
  • Ljubomir Maksimović: The Byzantine Provincial Administration under the Paloiologoi. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0968-6 , p. 54.
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Byzantine family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) approx. 1100-1460. A genealogical and prosopographical study (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies. Vol. 11). Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington DC 1968, pp. 75, 123.
  • Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 1. Fascicle: Ἀαρών - Ἀψαρᾶς (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/1). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7001-0169-4 , p. 143.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 1, p. 143.
  2. ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 328.
personal data
SURNAME Andreas Asanes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀνδρέας Ἀσάνης (Middle Greek); Андрей Асен (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine aristocrat, grandson of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Assen III.
DATE OF BIRTH before 1354
DATE OF DEATH after 1355