Isaac Komnenus Batatzes
Isaak Komnenos Batatzes ( Middle Greek Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός Βατάτζης ; † 1196 in Veliko Tarnowo ) was a Byzantine general and son-in-law of Emperor Alexios III.
Life
Isaak was a great-nephew of Emperor Manuel I and thus belonged to the ruling family of the Comnenes . Before 1190 he married Anna Komnene Angelina , the second eldest daughter of Alexios Angelos and Euphrosyne Dukaina Kamaterina . When Alexios overthrew his brother Isaac II on April 8, 1195 and as Alexios III. ascended the throne, Isaak Komnenos advanced to the sebastocrator and presumptive heir to the throne of the sonless emperor.
In 1196 Isaak Komnenos Batatzes led a campaign on behalf of his father-in-law against the rebellious Bulgarians and Cumans , who had defeated and captured General Alexios Aspietes in an offensive on the Struma . Isaac was also ambushed by the Bulgarians near Serres ; he was brought to Tarnowo, where Tsar Ivan Assen I had him chained. As a result, Isaak Komnenos died a little later in prison, just a plaything of rival powers.
Isaac's widow Anna entered into a second marriage in 1199 with Theodoros Laskaris , who, after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, founded the Empire of Nikaia in exile . Her daughter Theodora Angelina became the wife of the Bulgarian usurper Iwanko , who fled to Constantinople in 1197 ; after his death (1200) she married the Bulgarian warlord Dobromir Chrysos .
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- Ephraim von Ainos 6445 (ed.Immanuel Bekker , CSHB Vol. 21, 1840)
- Niketas Choniates 465-468; 473; 497 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Ser. Berol. Vol. 11, 1975)
literature
- Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών. Τόμος Β ' (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Τ. 20β , ISSN 1106-6180 ). Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984 ( PDF file; 45.5 MB ), p. 884 no.240 .
- Charles M. Brand: Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1968, ISBN 0-81-431764-2 , pp. 119-120.
- 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. 167.
- John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A critical Survey from the late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 , p. 28.
- Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 , p. 308.
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Remarks
- ↑ Cf. Βαρζός, Γενεαλογία , p. 735.
- ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 28.
- ↑ See Brand, Byzantium , p. 119 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Isaac Komnenus Batatzes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isaac Komnenos Vatatzes; Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός Βατάτζης (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine aristocrat, son-in-law of Emperor Alexios III. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1196 |
| Place of death | Veliko Tarnovo |