Andronikos Asanes the Younger

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Andronikos Asanes Palaiologos ( Middle Greek Ἀνδρόνικος Ἀσάνης Παλαιολόγος ; * around 1330; † after 1356) was a Byzantine aristocrat and military leader under Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos .

Life

Andronikos was a member of the Byzantine branch of the Bulgarian ruling family Assen (Greek Asanes ). His parents were the despot Manuel Komnenos Raul Asanes and Anna Komnene Dukaina Palaiologina Asanina . Through his grandfather of the same name, Andronikos Asanes , he was a great-grandson of Tsar Iwan Assen III. (1279-1280) and Irene Palaiologina . His aunt Irene Asanina had been the wife of the future Emperor John VI since 1320. Kantakuzenos.

Andronikos was still a child when his father was led by John VI after the outbreak of the Byzantine Civil War in 1342. was used as Strategos by Didymoticho . The emperor placed the boy in the care of his maternal grandfather Theodoros Synadenus , who returned with him to Thessaloniki , which was ruled by the Zealots . Andronikos later lived again with his father Manuel, who had been Kephale (Governor) of the West in Bizye since 1344 .

1351 Andronikos took part in the rank of Panhypersebastos at the Second Palamitic Council in Constantinople . In 1352 he stayed in Adrianople as a follower of Matthaios Asanes Kantakuzenos . In the Byzantine controversy for the throne he came to John VI. in December 1354 with an army from Bizye to help, but without being able to prevent the deposition of his uncle. Matthaios, who continued the fight for the imperial throne against John V from Thrace , promoted his cousin to Sebastokrator . What became of him after 1356 is unknown.

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literature

  • Catherine Asdracha: Les Rhodopes au XIVe siècle; Administration et prosopographie ecclésiastiques. Reprint from Byzantine-Neo-Greek Yearbooks 23 (not published), Athens 1979, p. 12, A. 1.
  • Hans-Veit Beyer: Personal investigation into a late Byzantine pamphlet. In: Wolfram Hörandner [Hrsg.], Johannes Koder , Otto Kresten : Byzantios. Festschrift for Herbert Hunger on his 70th birthday. E. Becvar, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-900538-04-2 , pp. 13-26, here: pp. 15 f., 26.
  • Иван Божилов: Фамилията на Асеневци (1186–1460). Генеалогия и просопография. Българска академия на науките, София 1985, ISBN 954-430-264-6 , pp. 328-340.
  • Herbert Hunger : Anonymous pamphlet against a Byzantine "Mafia" . In: Revue des études sud-est européennes. Vol. 7, 1969, ISSN  0035-2063 , pp. 95-107, here: p. 96.
  • Ljubomir Maksimović: The Byzantine provincial administration under the Palaiologoi. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0968-6 , pp. 142-143.
  • Averkios Th. Papadopulos: Attempting a Genealogy of Palaiologists, 1259–1453. Pilger-Druckerei, Munich 1938 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1962), p. 12 No. 19.
  • Iohannis Spatharakis: The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts (= Byzantina Neerlandica Vol. 6). EJ Brill, Leiden 1976, ISBN 90-04-04783-2 , p. 134.
  • Erich Trapp : Contributions to the genealogy of the Asanen in Byzantium. In: Yearbook of Austrian Byzantine Studies . Vol. 25, 1976, pp. 163-177, here: pp. 164, 170.
  • Erich Trapp, Hans-Veit Beyer, Ioannes G. Leontiades: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . Addenda and Corrigenda to fascicles 1–8 (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies. Vol. 1 / 1–8 Add.). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1462-1 , p. 36 No. 91369.
  • 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. 138 No. 1487.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 1, p. 141.
  2. ↑ See PLP Add. 1-8, p. 36.
  3. ↑ See PLP Add. 1-8, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Andronikos Asanes the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andronikos Asanes Palaiologos; Ἀνδρόνικος Ἀσάνης Παλαιολόγος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine Sebastocrator and military leader, nephew of Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos
DATE OF BIRTH around 1330
DATE OF DEATH after 1356