Basil Chotzas

Basil Chotzas (also Chodzas , Chortatzes , Middle Greek Βασίλειος ς Χοτζᾶς ; † after 1205) was a Byzantine usurper against Emperor Isaac II Angelus .

Life

The Archon Basil Chotzas is mentioned by the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates as one of several rebels who rose up against the incompetent Emperor Isaac II around 1190. The center of his usurpation was the fortress of Tarsia in the hinterland of Nicomedia in Bithynia . Chotzas, who pretended to be the young emperor Alexios II murdered in 1183 , was able to stay there until 1204. Presumably in the spring of 1205 he was captured by the guard of the Nicean ruler Theodor Laskaris , blinded (the usual punishment in Byzantium for usurpation and high treason) and then thrown into prison.

swell

• Niketas Choniates 423 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Ser. Berol. Vol. 11, 1975)
• Theodoros Skutariotes 464 (ed. Konstantin Sathas , BGMAE vol. 7, 1892, reprint 1972)

literature

• Charles M. Brand: Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1968, ISBN 0-8143-1764-2 , p. 87.
• 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. 125 No. 171.
• Alexis GC Savvides: Byzantium in the Near East: Its Relations with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Asia Minor, the Armenians of Cilicia and the Mongols, AD c. 1192-1237 (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Τ. 17 , ISSN  1106-6180 ). Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1981, p. 60.
• Alexis GC Savvides: Internal Strife and Unrest in Later Byzantium, XIth – XIIIth Centuries (AD 1025–1261). The Case of Urban and Provincial Insurrections (Causes and Effects). In: Σύμμεικτα KBE / EΙE. Vol. 7, 1987, ISSN  1105-1639 , pp. 237-273, here: pp. 258, 271.
• Αλέξης Γ. Κ. Σαββίδης: Βυζαντινά στασιαστικά και αυτονομιστικά κινήματα στα Δωδεκάνησα και τη Μικρά Ασία , 1189-1240 μ.Χ .: Συμβολή στη μελέτη της υστεροβυζαντινής προσωπογραφίας και τοπογραφίας την εποχή των Αγγέλων , των Λασκαρίδων της Νίκαιας και των Μεγαλοκομνηνών του Πόντου . Δόμος, Αθήνα 1987, chap. 2.
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 2: Baanes-Eznik of Kolb . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 .
• Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 , p. 307.
• Warren Treadgold : A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2 , pp. 658-659.
• Speros Vryonis: The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century (= Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Vol. 4). University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1971, ISBN 0-520-01597-5 , p. 129.

Remarks

1. ↑ See EPLBHC 2, p. 207.