Andronikos Asanes

This article covers the father-in-law of Emperor John VI. Cantakuzenos; for his grandson of the same name, see Andronikos Asanes the Younger

Andronikos Asanes († around 1355) was the second son of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Assen III, who fled to Constantinople . and his wife Irene Palaiologina, a daughter of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII. Dukas Komnenos Palaiologos .

Andronikos was one of the important representatives of the Byzantine branch of the Bulgarian noble family Assen . He first gained political influence as governor (Epitropos) of the Byzantine part of the Morea (approx. 1316 to 1322), where he succeeded in expanding the Byzantine position in the battle with the Franks and the Catalans . In the subsequent inner-Byzantine power struggles, he supported Johannes Kantakuzenos , whose father-in-law he had been since 1320.

family

1. Andronikos Asanes († around 1355), governor of Morea (1316–1322) ⚭ Dukaina, daughter of Michael Dukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes
   1. Manuel Komnenos Raul Asanes ⚭ 1321 a daughter of Theodoros Synadenos
      1. Andronikos Asanes
   2. Johannes Asanes , governor of Constantinople ⚭ 1347 a daughter of Alexios Apokaukos
      1. Anna Asanina ⚭ Johannes Kontostephanos
   3. Irene (Palaiologina Komnena) Asanina of Bulgaria (* approx. 1300; † approx. 1379) ⚭ 1320 John VI. Kantakuzenos, Byzantine emperor; their children were named Kantakuzenos
   4. Helene Asanina

literature

• Günter Prinzing : Asen, Andronikos . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 1106.
• 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. 411-412.
• Erich Trapp et al. (Ed.): Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit. 1. Fascicle: Ἀαρών-Ἀψαρᾶς. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7001-0169-4 , p. 138 No. 1489.

Web links

• Andronikos Palaiologos Komnenos Asanes on Medieval Lands

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael Kantakuzenos	Governor of Morea 1316–1322	Manuel Kantakuzenos