Andronikos Bryennios Komnenos

Andronikos Bryennios Komnenos ( Middle Greek Ἀνδρόνικος Βρυέννιος Κομνηνός ; * around 1137; † before 1201/02) was a Byzantine aristocrat and governor who appeared between 1186 and 1192 as pretender to the throne against Emperor Isaac II Angelus .

Life

Andronikos Bryennios Komnenos was a son of Megas Dux Alexios Bryennios Komnenos and thus a member of the ruling dynasty of the Komnenes . His paternal grandparents were the historian Nikephoros Bryennios , emperor under Alexios I , and his daughter Anna Komnena . Andronikos had a younger brother named David , about whom nothing else is known.

Under Emperor Manuel I Andronikos carried the title Pansebastos sebastos . After the victory of the Byzantines over the Norman invaders on November 7th, 1185 in the Battle of Demetritzes , he was appointed by Isaac II as governor ( Dux ) in Thessaloniki , which was recaptured without a fight .

At a time between 1186 and 1192, which cannot be precisely dated, Andronikos came under suspicion of preparing a putsch against Isaac II together with Emperor Alexios Komnenos . Alexios was arrested in Drama and banished to a monastery on Mount Papikion in the Rhodope Mountains . Andronikos was brought to Constantinople before the emperor, who, despite his protests of innocence, blinded him for high treason .

A little later, Andronikos' son, who was not known by name, failed in Thessaloniki with another attempt at usurpation.

swell

Michael Choniates 286; 295 (ed. Spyridon Lambros , 1879–1880)
Niketas Choniates 423-425 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Ser. Berol. Vol. 11, 1975)

literature

Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών. Τόμος Β ' (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Τ. 20β , ISSN 1106-6180 ). Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984 ( PDF file; 45.5 MB ), pp. 83–85 No. 113.
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. 128, No. 178.
Friedrich Rehm : Outline of the history of the Middle Ages: textbook for lectures at universities and upper grammar school classes. Krieger, Kassel 1840, p. 686.
Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 , pp. 292, 307.

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Remarks

↑ Friedrich Rehm moved Andronikos Bryennios Komnenos close to the usurper Rakendytes mentioned in Niketas Choniates , who rose against Isaac II around 1191. However, an identity of the two persons is unlikely, since Choniates himself does not establish a connection between them.

personal data
SURNAME	Andronikos Bryennios Komnenos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ἀνδρόνικος Βρυέννιος Κομνηνός (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine aristocrat and governor, conspirator against Emperor Isaac II.
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1137
DATE OF DEATH	before 1201-1202

[1] Friedrich Rehm moved Andronikos Bryennios Komnenos close to the usurper Rakendytes mentioned in Niketas Choniates , who rose against Isaac II around 1191. However, an identity of the two persons is unlikely, since Choniates himself does not establish a connection between them.