Andronikos Komnenos (son of John II)

Andronikos Komnenos ( medium Greek Ἀνδρόνικος Κομνηνός * to 1108; † autumn 1142 in Attaleia [?]), Nicknamed Porphyrogennetos , was a Byzantine prince of the dynasty of Comnenus .

Life

Andronikos Komnenos was the second eldest son of Emperor John II and the Piroska-Irene . He had an older brother, the Crown Prince Alexios , the two younger brothers Isaak and the later Emperor Manuel, as well as four sisters named Maria, Anna, Theodora and Eudokia .

In 1122 Andronikos and his two younger brothers Isaak and Manuel were elevated to sebastocrators by John II in a splendid ceremony in the Great Palace of Constantinople ; at the same time Alexios was crowned co-emperor (Symbasileus) . Otherwise little is known about Andronikos' life, but he seems to have accompanied his father on his campaigns on the Danube as well as in Cilicia and Syria . In 1133 Andronikos took part with his brothers in the triumphal procession that John II held in Constantinople on the occasion of the reconquest of Kastamon from the Danishmenden .

When the co-emperor Alexios succumbed to a febrile illness on August 2, 1142 during a stay in Attaleia in Pamphylia , Andronikos Komnenos became heir to the throne. Together with his brother Isaac, he was supposed to transfer Alexios' body to Constantinople. But he fell ill shortly before the start of (or during) the voyage and died. Andronikos was buried in the Pantocrator Church , the burial place of the Comnenes. He left his wife Irene Aineiadissa († 1150/51) with the children Maria , Johannes , Theodora , Eudokia and Alexios .

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• Niketas Choniates 16-17; 38; 49-50
• Chronica Byzantina breviora 58, 2
• Michael Italikos 130-134
• Johannes Kinnamos 24
• Manganeios Prodromos 91
• Pantocrator Typikon 259
• Theodoros Prodromos , Historical Poems 6; 9-10; 13; 44-45
• William of Tire 15, 19

literature

• Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. T. 20α, ZDB -ID 420491-8 ). Τόμος Α '. Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984, pp. 357–379 No. 76, digitized version (PDF; 264 MB) .
• Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института 11, 1968, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 141-192, there pp. 157f., Digitized .
• Paul Magdalino: The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-52-152653-1 , p. 422.
• Steven Runciman : History of the Crusades, Volume 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187. Beck, Munich 1968 (reprint), ISBN 3-40-639960-6 , p. 222.
• Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 (Oxford Studies in Byzantium), p. 71.
• Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza: Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople. Self-published, Paris 1983, p. 276.

Web links

• Andronikos Komnenos in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World
• Andronikos Komnenos on Medieval Lands
• Andronikos Komnenos on medieval genealogy