Demetrios Palaiologos (son of Andronikos II)

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Demetrios Angelos Dukas Palaiologos ( Middle Greek Δημήτριος Ἄγγελος Δούκας Παλαιολόγος ; * probably 1295 in Constantinople ; † after 1343) was a Byzantine prince, governor and illuminator .

Life

Demetrios was the fifth and youngest son of the emperor Andronikos II. Palaiologos , the third of his second wife Irene Komnene Dukaina (Yolande von Montferrat) . His older half-brothers were Michael IX. and Constantine , he also had two brothers ( Johannes , Theodoros ); his sister Simonis was the fifth wife of the Serbian king Stefan Milutin .

Around 1304 the young Demetrios was sent to his sister at the court of the Serbian king in Skopje in order to position him there as a possible heir to the throne; however, he soon returned to Constantinople. 1306 Andronikos II raised him to the rank of despot .

In the Byzantine civil war from 1321 to 1328 Demetrios supported his father against his nephew Andronikos III. who had risen to become the counter-emperor in Thrace . In the final phase of the conflict, from 1327 at the latest, he officiated as governor of Thessaloniki . As Andronikos III. Captured the city in 1328, Demetrios managed to escape to Serbia while his wife and children were taken prisoner. After Andronikos III. Having established himself as sole ruler on May 24, 1328, Demetrios went back to Constantinople. A charge against him for high treason let Andronikos III. fall around 1336/1337.

Demetrios was highly educated theologically and also an able painter of miniatures . He wrote a dedication poem for the menology manuscript that he illuminated . He was in correspondence with the writers Michael Gabras and Georgios Oinaiotes .

After 1343 Demetrios Palaiologos disappears from the historical tradition. His daughter Irene Palaiologina was married to the later co-emperor Matthaios Asanes Kantakuzenos since 1341 .

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literature

  • Franz Dölger : Byzantine Diplomatics. 20 essays on the Byzantine document system. Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1956, pp. 95–96, 100–101.
  • Franz Dölger: Regest of the imperial documents of the Eastern Roman Empire from 565-1453. Part 4: Regesten from 1282-1341 (= corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and more recent times. Row A: Regesten. Dept. 1, Part 4). CH Beck, Munich 1960, No. 2502, 2580-2581, 2890.
  • Georgios Fatouros : The letters of Michael Gabras (approx. 1290 - after 1350) (= Viennese Byzantine writings. Vol. 10 / 1–2). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7001-0013-2 , pp. 39, 633.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама . (= Посебна издања . Vol. 336; Византолошки институт . Vol. 8). Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 92–95 and passim .
  • Christine Knowles: Les enseignements de Théodore Paléologue. (= Texts and Dissertations. Vol. 19). Modern Humanities Research Association, London 1983, ISBN 0-900547-86-3 , p. 31.
  • Angeliki E. Laiou: Constantinople and the Latins. The Foreign Policy of Andronicus II 1282-1328. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1972, ISBN 0-674-16535-7 , pp. 46, 231, 241, 296.
  • Ljubomir Maksimović: The Byzantine Provincial Administration Under the Paloiologoi. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0968-6 , pp. 144-145.
  • Averkios Th. Papadopulos: Attempting a Genealogy of Palaiologists, 1259–1453. Pilger-Druckerei, Munich 1938 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1962), pp. 40–41, No. 63.
  • Demetrios I. Polemis: The Doukai. A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography (= University of London Historical Studies. Vol. 22, ISSN  0076-0692 ). Athlone Press, London 1968, p. 160.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Sokrates Kaplaneres: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 9. Fascicle: [Ογουζάλπης] - Πέτκος. (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies. Vol. 1/9). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7001-1641-1 , pp. 87-88 No. 21456.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 92.
  2. ↑ See Maksimović, Provincial Administration , p. 144.
  3. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 87.
personal data
SURNAME Demetrios Palaiologos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Δημήτριος Ἄγγελος Δούκας Παλαιολόγος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine prince, governor and illuminator; Son of emperor Andronikos II.
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1295
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH after 1343