Gregorio's dresses

Gregorios Kleidas was a Byzantine judge in the 1st half of the 14th century. He was a judge (δικαιοφύλαξ) and archdeacon, who in 1329 (or maybe only in March 1334) on the occasion of a judicial reform of the emperor Andronikos III. to one of the four καθολικοὶ κριταὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων was used. The oath he took on this occasion has been preserved in seven manuscripts. He could have commissioned the Prochiron auctum for his judicial work or even compiled it himself. In 1337 he was deposed with two other καθολικοὶ κριταὶ for corruption. In view of its satirical character, it is very unlikely that the defensive text attributed to Gregorios Kleidas by its editor was written by him, as Otto Kresten in particular showed.

Edition of the oath

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal , review by Gustav Geib, representation of the legal situation in Greece , in: Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur 29, 1836, pp. 857–887, here 868–870 or 871 (with translation), and Paul Lemerle , Le juge général des Grecs et la réforme judiciaire d'Andronic III , in: Mémorial Louis Petit , Bucharest 1948, pp. 292–316, here 297–298.

literature

Paul Lemerle, Le juge général des Grecs et la réforme judiciaire d'Andronic III , in: Mémorial Louis Petit , Bucharest 1948, pp. 296–298, 302 and 308–309.
Erich Trapp with the collaboration of Rainer Walther and Hans-Veit Beyer, Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit , 5th Fascicle, Vienna 1981, p. 189 No. 11781.

Individual evidence

↑ See Ludwig Burgmann, Marie Theres Fögen , Andreas Schminck , Dieter Simon , Repertorium der Manschriften des Byzantine Rechts , Vol. I, Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 432.
↑ Ed. by GJ Theocharides, The apology of the convicted highest judges of the Romans, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 56 (1963) 69-100 (with German paraphrase).
↑ Otto Kresten : A circumstantial trial against the emperor Andronikos III. Καθολικοὶ κριταί used in Palaiologos , in: Fontes minores , Vol. IX, 1993, pp. 299-337, here 317-328.

personal data
SURNAME	Kleidas, Gregorios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine judge
DATE OF BIRTH	13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH	14th Century

[1] See Ludwig Burgmann, Marie Theres Fögen , Andreas Schminck , Dieter Simon , Repertorium der Manschriften des Byzantine Rechts , Vol. I, Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 432.

[2] Ed. by GJ Theocharides, The apology of the convicted highest judges of the Romans, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 56 (1963) 69-100 (with German paraphrase).

[3] Otto Kresten : A circumstantial trial against the emperor Andronikos III. Καθολικοὶ κριταί used in Palaiologos , in: Fontes minores , Vol. IX, 1993, pp. 299-337, here 317-328.