Andronikos Lampardas

Andronikos Lampardas (also Lapardas , Middle Greek Ἀνδρόνικος Λαμπαρδᾶς ; † after the end of 1183 / beginning 1184 in Constantinople ) was a high-ranking Byzantine military who revolted against Andronikos I at the end of 1183 .

Life

The Sebastos Andronikos Lampardas held under Emperor Manuel I the Hofwürden a Oikeios Vestiarites and Chartularios . In the war against the Hungarian King Stephan III. he was one of the generals who attacked the Hungarians in 1166 from the north from the area of ​​the "Tauroskythen" ( Kievan Rus ). In 1167 he commanded the right wing of the imperial army in the battle of Sirmium, which was victorious for Byzantium .

During the campaign against the Seljuk Sultan Kılıç Arslan II. 1176 Lampardas was also used as a troop leader. He survived the costly Battle of Myriokephalon , in which several prominent Byzantine generals were killed.

After the death of Manuel I on September 24, 1180, Lampardas supported the throne ambitions of Emperor Johannes-Rainer and Maria Komnenes against the imperial widow Maria of Antioch and her favorite, Protosebastus Alexios Komnenos . When the planned coup attempt was uncovered in early March 1181, Lampardas had to go into exile as one of the co-conspirators .

In May 1182 Lampardas was sent by Andronikos Komnenos, who had just established himself as regent in Constantinople , with a large force against Johannes Komnenos Batatzes , a nephew of Manuel I, who refused allegiance to the new ruler and set up his own army in Lydia would have. Lampardas was defeated by the rebels in a battle near Philadelphia ; however, Batatzes died only a few days later, so that the uprising collapsed.

In October of the following year, Andronikos Lampardas, together with Alexios Branas, held the Byzantine border fortresses Veligradon ( Belgrade ) and Braničevo against the threat from the Hungarians and Serbs . The news of the murder of the young emperor Alexios II divided the two generals: While Branas allegedly approved the crime, Lampardas now opposed Andronikos I responsible for it. He left for Asia Minor to organize an act of revenge against the tyrannical ruler , but was captured in Adramyttion in late 1183 or early 1184 . Andronikos I blinded the rebel and put him in the Christos Pantepoptes monastery in Constantinople, where he was likely to have died soon afterwards.

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• Niketas Choniates 263-264; 277-280 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Vol. 11, 1975)
• Eustathios of Thessalonica 14-15
• Johannes Kinnamos 203 (ed. Charles M. Brand); 260–261, 271–273 (ed. August Meineke )

literature

• 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. 116 No. 158.
• Jan-Louis van Dieten: Niketas Choniates. Explanations of the speeches and letters together with a biography. (= Supplementa Byzantina . Vol. 2). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 978-3-11-002290-2 , p. 89.
• Paul Magdalino: The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-52653-1 , pp. 285-287.
• Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study. (= Oxford Studies in Byzantium ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 , pp. 161, 285, 305.
• Paul Stephenson: Byzantium′s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans 900-1204. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-77017-3 , pp. 282-283.
• Lucien Stiernon: Notes de titulature et de prosopographie byzantines. Theodora Comnène et Andronic Lapardes, sébastes. In: Revue des Études byzantines 24, 1966, ISSN  0373-5729 , pp. 89-96.

Web links

• Andronikos Lampardas , Andronikos Lapardas in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World