Eustathios Palatinos

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Eustathios Palatinos (also Eustachius Palatinus o. Eustazio Palatinos) was the Katepan of Italy from autumn 1045 to autumn 1046. The scant information about him comes from Lupus Protospatharius , the Anonymous Barensis and from a Sigillion from December 1045 issued by him .

Eustathios was the successor of the Katepan Basilios Theodorokanos , the Patrikios Argyros , son of Meles of Bari , went to Constantinople again at the same time . Eustathios landed in Otranto and traveled from there to Bari , the seat of the Katepanate. Near Taranto he was defeated by Drogo von Hauteville , brother of Wilhelm Eisenarm , the Norman Count of Apulia . He then returned to Bari, where the commander of the Varangian Guard , Johannes Raphael , succeeded him in autumn 1046.

literature

  • Vera von Falkenhausen : Investigations into Byzantine rule in southern Italy from the 9th to the 11th century ( Writings on the intellectual history of eastern Europe , 1), Wiesbaden 1967, pp. 90, 92, 105, 110, 186f.
    improved Italian edition La dominazione bizantina nell'Italia meridionale dal IX all'XI secolo , Bari 1978, pp. 97, 119, notes 77, 141, 204
  • Jacques Lefort - Jean-Marie Martin : Le sigillion du catépan d'Italie Eustathe Palatinos pour le juge Byzantios (December 1045) . In: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen Âge, temps modern 98, 1986, pp. 525-542.
  • Ferdinand Chalandon : Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicilie . Paris 1907.
personal data
SURNAME Palatinos, Eustathios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palatinus, Eustachius; Palatinos, Eustazio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine katepan from ᾿Ιταλἰα
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 11th century or 12th century