Isaac Nestongos

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Isaak Dukas Nestongos ( Middle Greek Ἰσαάκιος Δούκας Νεστόγγος ; † after 1225) was a conspirator against the Nicean emperor John III. Dukas Batatzes .

Life

Isaac Nestongos was a member of the Nestongoi family , which first appears in Byzantine sources in the 11th century. His mother, who is not known by name, was a daughter of Isaac Dukas Angelos , whose mother Theodora Komnena was the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Dukaina . After the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in April 1204, the family emigrated to Bithynia along with other important aristocratic families . In the empire of Nikaia they soon assumed leading positions in the administration.

Little is known about the childhood and youth of Isaac and his brother Andronikos . After their cousin Johannes Dukas Batatzes succeeded his father-in-law Theodor I Laskaris in 1221 (or 1222) , they made their own claims to power based on their descent - similar to the Laskarid brothers Alexios and Isaak shortly before . With the support of a considerable number of Byzantine aristocrats, including the megas hetereiarches Flamulis and the Dux of the theme Thracesian Theme , Makrenos , instigated the Nestongoi brothers end 1224 or early 1225 a conspiracy with the aim of Andronikos on the throne of Nicaea to bring. However, John III, who fought against the Latins at the Dardanelles , learned of the plot. After having destroyed his ships lying in the port of Lampsakos , he moved with his troops to Achyraos and had the rebels captured without any major battle.

The Nestongoi brothers and their accomplices were charged with treason , but got away with comparatively mild sentences. Isaac was blinded and lost one hand; Andronikos was even physically unharmed and a little later escaped from custody in the Sultanate of the Rum Seljuks . When and by what circumstances Isaac Nestongos died is unknown.

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literature

  • Dimiter Angelov: Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85703-1 , pp. 120, 122.
  • 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 .
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  • Jean-Claude Cheynet: Les Nestongoi, an example d'assimilation réussie. In: Jean-Claude Cheynet: La société byzantine. L'apport des sceaux (= Bilans de recherche 3). Association des amis du Center d'histoire et civilization de Byzance, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-916716-16-9 , pp. 599-607.
  • Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , p. 1459.
  • Dimitri Korobeinikov: Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-870826-1 , p. 64.
  • 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. 151.
  • Vincent Puech: The Aristocracy and the Empire of Nicaea . In: Judith Herrin, Guillaume Saint-Guillain (Ed.): Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204. Ashgate, Farnham 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-1098-0 , pp. 69–80, here: pp. 72.
  • Alexis GC Savvides: Internal Strife and Unrest in Later Byzantium, XIth – XIIIth Centuries (AD 1025–1261). The Case of Urban and Provincial Insurrections (Causes and Effects). In: Σύμμεικτα ΚΒΕ / ΕΙΕ. Vol. 7, 1987, ISSN  1105-1639 , pp. 237-273, here: p. 273.
  • Αλέξης Γ. Κ. Σαββίδης: Βυζαντινά στασιαστικά και αυτονομιστικά κινήματα στα Δωδεκάνησα και τη Μικρά Ασία , 1189-1240 μ.Χ .: Συμβολή στη μελέτη της υστεροβυζαντινής προσωπογραφίας και τοπογραφίας την εποχή των Αγγέλων , των Λασκαρίδων της Νίκαιας και των Μεγαλοκομνηνών του Πόντου . Δόμος, Αθήνα 1987, pp. 232-245.

Remarks

  1. See Korobeinikov, Byzantium and the Turks , p. 64.