Isaac Dukas Batatzes
Isaak Dukas Batatzes ( Middle Greek Ἰσαάκιος Δούκας Βατάτζης ; * before 1192; † 1261 in Genoa ) was a Byzantine aristocrat in the Empire of Nikaia and brother of Emperor John III.
Life
Isaac was a member of the prestigious Batatzes family of officers , who provided three Byzantine emperors in the 13th century . He was the eldest son of Basil Batatzes , who officiated under Emperor Isaac II as Domestikos der Scholen , i.e. commander in chief of the Byzantine troops in the east of the empire and Dux (governor) of the Thrace theme . His mother, who is not known by name, was a cousin of Isaac II; through them he was a great-great-grandson of Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Dukaina .
Little is known about Isaac's childhood and youth. After John III. Dukas Batatzes had ascended the throne in Nikaia in 1221 (or 1222) , Isaac moved up as Parakoimomenos tes Megales Sphendones (court chief) into the circle of the highest dignitaries at court. In 1253 at the latest, John III. his brother the high title of sebastokrator (vice emperor).
Even among the successors of John III. Isaac Dukas Batatzes remained an influential figure. On March 13, 1261 he was involved in the Agreement of Nymphaion , the trade and alliance treaty between the Empire of Nikaia and the Republic of Genoa . Emperor Michael VIII , who was married to Isaac's granddaughter Theodora , sent him to Genoa on a diplomatic mission at the end of April 1261, with the dignity of Pansebastos sebastos . There he died and was buried in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo . Isaac's son and Michael VIII's father-in-law Johannes Dukas Batatzes had died in 1240.
swell
- Georgios Akropolites 51 (ed. Peter Wirth , transl. Wilhelm Blum, BGL Vol. 28, 1989)
- Ephraim von Ainos 355 (ed.Immanuel Bekker , CSHB Vol. 21, 1840)
- Georgios Pachymeres 1, 24 and 64-65; 2, 154–155 (ed. Immanuel Bekker, CSHB 1835, reprint 2010)
- Theodoros Skutariotes 504 (ed. Konstantin Sathas , BGMAE vol. 7, 1892, reprint 1972)
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, pp. 147–148.
- 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 , p. 68.
- 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 , pp. 75-76 no. 1892.
- §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: p. 174.
- Deno John Geanakoplos: Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West 1258-1282. A Study in Byzantine-Latin Relations. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1959, pp. 25, 86.
- 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. 109 no.73.
- Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 3rd fascicle: Δ ... - Ἡσύχιος (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/3). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0276-3 , p. 67 No. 5691.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Isaac Dukas Batatzes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isaac Dukas Vatatzes; Ἰσαάκιος Δούκας Βατάτζης (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine aristocrat, brother of Emperor John III. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1192 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1261 |
| Place of death | Genoa |