Andronikos Dukas (General under Leo VI)

Andronikos Dukas ( Middle Greek Ανδρόνικος Δούκας ; * around 855, † after 907 in Baghdad ) was a Byzantine patrician , general and rebel against Emperor Leo VI.

Life

Andronikos Dukas is the first representative of the later imperial dynasty of the Dukai , about whose life details are known. According to the Arab sources, before his revolt he was commander-in-chief of the army of Emperor Leo VI, so he should have served as Domestikos of the Scholen . In the late autumn of 904 he was a military leader together with the hypostrategos of Anatolicon , Eustathios Argyros , in a victorious campaign against the Arab Germanikeia .

Probably in the summer of 906 (the chronology is uncertain) Andronikos, tempted by an intrigue of Parakoimomenos Samonas , resisted the order of the emperor to take part in a naval expedition under the command of Himerios against the Arabs. When the latter nevertheless achieved a brilliant victory, Andronikos and his entourage fled to the east, holed up for six months in the fortress Kabala, today Gevele Kalesi , near Iconium, and sent a request for help to the caliph al-Muktafi . The emperor tried to persuade him to return with several chrysobulls ; When this did not work, he sent General Gregoras Iberitzes to arrest the renegade and bring him to Constantinople . The patriarch Nikolaus Mystikos , who allegedly incited Andronikos in connection with the tetragamy dispute to rebellion and promised him the imperial crown, was removed from his office on February 1, 907. Andronikos succeeded with the support of the Arab governor of Tarsus , Rustam , to repel the troops of the Iberitzes. He then found refuge with the caliph in Baghdad, who welcomed him with honor. Allegedly, Andronikos also converted to Islam (by force) , but died soon afterwards.

Andronikos' son Konstantin Dukas escaped. In 913 he made an attempt at usurpation against the young emperor Constantine VII.

swell

• Al-Masʿūdī , Kitāb at-Tanbīh wa-'l-ischrāf 174
• At-Ṭabarī 3, 2276
• Pseudo-Symeon 710-711
• Johannes Skylitzes , Leon 24
• Symeon Logothetes 133
• Theophanes Continuatus 6, 22-26
• Vita Euthymii ( BHG 651) 11, 69-71
• Johannes Zonaras 16, 13-14

literature

• 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. 546 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , p. 657.
• 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. 239–242 No. 20405.
• Alexander A. Vasiliev : Byzance et les Arabes. Department 2: La dynastie macédonienne (867–959). Volume 2: Extraits des sources arabes (= Corpus Bruxellense historiae Byzantinae. Dept. 2, Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 2197364-7 ). Édition française prepared by Henri Grégoire et Marius Canard, traduits by Marius Canard. Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves, Brussels 1950, pp. 20–21, 398–399.

Web links

• Charles Cawley: Medieval Lands . In: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Byzantium 1057-1204 ; Doukas

Remarks

1. ↑ Takkeli Dağ