Andronikos Palaiologos (son-in-law of Theodor I)

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Andronikos Palaiologos ( Middle Greek Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος ; † probably around 1216 ) was a son-in-law of the Byzantine emperor Theodor I. Laskaris and briefly heir to the throne in the exile of Nicaea .

Life

There are only a few certain facts about the person of Andronikos, and his origins within the palaeologic family are also in the dark. Even the name is unclear, because the Metropolitan of Ephesus , Nikolaos Mesarites , who led his wedding ceremony, calls him Konstantin Dukas Palaiologos in a sermon . However, starting with Georgios Akropolites as the main source, it is called Andronikos by all Byzantine chroniclers , so that in research it is predominantly assumed that the different name in the Mesarites report is based on the prescription of a later copyist .

Andronikos Palaiologos appears at Akropolites for the first time in 1211 as a participant in the campaign against the Latin Empire , which ended with the defeat of the Nicaeans in the Battle of Rhyndakos . In the course of this campaign, the Latin Emperor Heinrich of Flanders also conquered Lentiana and Poimanenon . Andronikos was evidently one of the leading commanders during the siege of Lentiana; he was captured by the Latins , but later released.

The date of Andronikos' marriage to Irene Laskarina , the eldest daughter of Emperor Theodors I, is also controversial . While the Akropolites chronology puts the wedding close to the events of 1211, August Heisenberg dated it to February much later based on the information from Mesarites 1216. Probably on the occasion of his marriage, Andronikos was awarded the outstanding court dignity of a despot . Since the emperor's two sons, Nikolaos and Johannes , died young, Andronikos became the presumptive heir to the throne. But he died a short time later; According to Akropolites, he succumbed to an unknown sexually transmitted disease . Irene was then married to the Protovestiarios Johannes Dukas Batatzes , who succeeded Theodor I as emperor in 1222.

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literature

  • Dimiter Angelov: Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85703-1 , pp. 121-122.
  • Michael Angold: A Byzantine Government in Exile. Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea, 1204-1261 . Oxford University Press, London 1975, ISBN 0-19-821854-0 , pp. 41, 62.
  • Jean-Claude Cheynet, Jean-François Vannier: Études prosopographiques (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Série Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 5). Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantine, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-85944-110-7 , pp. 172–174 No. 30.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издања . Vol. 336; Византолошки институт Vol. 8.). Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, p. 35.
  • Michael F. Hendy: Catalog of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection . Vol. 4: Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261 , Part 2: The Emperors of Nicaea and Their Contemporaries (1204-1261) . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-88402-233-1 , p. 451 (as Constantine Palaeologus ).
  • Ruth Macrides: George Akropolites: The History - Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-921067-1 .
  • Demetrios I. Polemis: The Doukai. A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography. Athlone Press, London 1968, ISBN 0-485-13122-6 , p. 156 no.140 .
  • Vincent Puech: The Aristocracy and the Empire of Nicaea . In: Judith Herrin, Guillaume Saint-Guillain (Ed.): Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204. Ashgate, Farnham 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-1098-0 , pp. 69–80, here: pp. 71.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Macrides, George Akropolites , pp. 149 f. FN 3; Cheynet / Vannier, Études , p. 172 f.
  2. ↑ See. Macrides, George Akropolites , pp 148-150, 153 f .; Cheynet / Vannier, Études , p. 173 f.
  3. ↑ See Cheynet / Vannier, Études , p. 173.
  4. ↑ Cf. Macrides, George Akropolites , pp. 149 f. FN 3.
  5. ↑ Cf. Macrides, George Akropolites , pp. 148, 149 f. FN 3.
personal data
SURNAME Andronikos Palaiologos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀνδρόνικος Παλαιολόγος (Middle Greek); Konstantin Dukas Palaiologos (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine despot in Nikaia, son-in-law and heir to the throne of Emperor Theodor I. Laskaris
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1216