Georg Komnenos (Epirus)

Georg Komnenos ( Middle Greek Γεώργιος Κομνηνός ; † after 1227) was a Byzantine governor in the despotate of Epirus .

Life

The paneugenestatos kyr Georg Komnenos was an unknown member of the Komnenos Dukas dynasty , which had ruled Epirus since 1204, a Greek successor state to the Byzantine Empire, which fell apart as a result of the Fourth Crusade . He was married to a Theodora Komnene , probably the daughter of Michael I , whose marriage to his son Radoslav, sought by the Serbian grandzupan Stefan Nemanjić around 1215/16 , had been forbidden by the church due to close relatives (5th degree).

Under Theodoros I Komnenos Dukas , Georg Komnenos was entrusted as governor ( Dux ) around 1222 with the civil and military administration of the Skopje theme, which was re-established in 1219 . Günter Prinzing holds it for identical to an at Demetrios Chomatenos mentioned anonymous Sebastokrator , the disposal room in Skopje on land. This high title, which in the Byzantine court hierarchy corresponded to the rank of vice-emperor, can only have been awarded to him in the period between 1225/27 and 1230, when Theodor I ruled as basileus in Thessaloniki .

swell

Demetrios Chomatos , Synoptikon 76; 138 (ed. Jean-Baptiste Pitra , Analecta sacra et classica vol. 6, 1891)

literature

Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 11, 1968, ISSN 0584-9888 , pp. 141-192 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB ).
Günter Prinzing : Studies on provincial and central administration in the sphere of influence of the Epirotian rulers Michael I and Theodoros Dukas. Part 2. In: Ηπειρωτικά Χρονικά. Vol. 25, 1983, ISSN 1108-4758 , pp. 37-112, here: pp. 71-75.
Günter Prinzing (Ed.): Demetrii Chomati Ponemata diaphora. The corpus of files of the Ohrid Archbishop Demetrios Chomatos (= Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae - Series Berolinensis. Vol. 38). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York NY 2002, ISBN 3-11-015612-1 , pp. 160 * -161 *.

Remarks

↑ See Prinzing, Studien , p. 72.
↑ See Prinzing, Studien , p. 75, note 166.
↑ See Ферјанчић, Севастократори , p. 175.

personal data
SURNAME	Georg Komnenos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Georgios Komnenos; Γεώργιος Κομνηνός (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine governor in the despotate of Epirus
DATE OF BIRTH	12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1227

[1] See Prinzing, Studien , p. 72.

[2] See Prinzing, Studien , p. 75, note 166.

[3] See Ферјанчић, Севастократори , p. 175.