Georg Laskaris

Georg Laskaris ( Middle Greek Γεώργιος Λάσκαρις ; † before 1236) was an older brother of the Byzantine exile emperor Theodor I. Laskaris .

Life

Georg was one of at least six brothers of Theodor Laskaris who, after the fall of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, founded the Nikaia Empire as the successor state to the Byzantine Empire. After Theodor's coronation as emperor in March 1208 (or already in 1207) in Nikaia , Georg, like Alexios and Isaak Laskaris , was awarded the high court dignity of sebastokrator (vice-emperor), which was reserved for close relatives of the incumbent emperor. In 1211 Georg Laskaris was employed by his brother as a hegemon (troop commander) in the Smyrna area on the subject of Thrakesion . Otherwise little is known about his life. His date of death is to be set before 1236.

swell

Acta et diplomata monasteriorum et ecclesiarum Orientis 1, 34–40 (ed. Franz von Miklosich / Joseph Müller , ADGMA vol. 4, 1871, reprint 1996)

literature

Hélène Ahrweiler : L'Histoire et la Géographie de la région de Smyrne entre les two occupations turques (1081-1317) (= Travaux et mémoires . Vol. 1). Center de recherche d'Histoire et Civilization de Byzance, Paris 1965.
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, 330.
Franz Dölger : Regest of the imperial documents of the Eastern Roman Empire from 565-1453. Part 3, Volume 3: Regesten from 1204–1282 (= corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times. Row A: Regesten. Dept. 1, Part 3, Vol. 3). 2nd edition revised by Peter Wirth . CH Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-00738-4 , p. 29 No. 1752.
Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 11, 1968, ISSN 0584-9888 , pp. 141-192 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB ), here: pp. 173-174.
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.

Web links

Georgios Laskaris on Medieval Lands

Remarks

↑ See Ферјанчић, Севастократори , p. 173.
↑ See Ahrweiler, Smyrne , p. 7.
↑ Cf. Ahrweiler, Smyrne , p. 138 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Georg Laskaris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Georgios Laskaris; Γεώργιος Λάσκαρις (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine Sebastocrator, brother of Emperor Theodor I. Laskaris
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	before 1236

[1] See Ферјанчић, Севастократори , p. 173.

[2] See Ahrweiler, Smyrne , p. 7.

[3] Cf. Ahrweiler, Smyrne , p. 138 f.