Johannes Drimys

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Johannes Drimys ( Middle Greek Ἰωάννης Δριμύς ; † after 1305 ) was a Byzantine usurper against Emperor Andronikos II.

Life

After the reconquest of Constantinople in 1261 , Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos had the rightful heir to the throne John IV blinded and locked up in a castle on the Marmara Sea . In 1305 an alleged priest from Epirus appeared in Constantinople , who called himself Johannes Drimys and claimed to be a descendant of the Lascarids . Apparently he pretended to be John IV, who had been deposed 44 years earlier and who died in captivity around this time.

In the winter of 1305/1306, Drimys organized a conspiracy with the aim of overthrowing Emperor Andronikos II, the son of Michael VIII. For this he sought the support of the Arsenites , who considered Andronikos' II rule to be illegitimate, as well as the Catalan Company , the Turks , Hungarians and Wlachen . Finally Drimys was removed from his priesthood at a synod by Patriarch Athanasios I and sent into exile . The arsenite clergy were expelled from their monastery in Constantinople on the orders of the emperor in the middle of the cold winter.

It is disputed whether Drimys can be identified with a (co -?) Conspirator named Glykys in Athanasios , who appeared at the same time in Constantinople.

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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. 121, 316, 320, 369.
  • John L. Boojamra: The Church and Social Reform: The Policies of Patriarch Athanasios of Constantinople. Fordham University Press, New York NY 1993, ISBN 0-8232-1335-8 , p. 51.
  • Albert Failler: Le complot antidynastique de Jean Drimys. In: Revue des études byzantines. Vol. 54, 1996, ISSN  0766-5598 , pp. 235-244.
  • Angeliki E. Laiou: Constantinople and the Latins. The Foreign Policy of Andronicus II 1282-1328. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1972, ISBN 0-674-16535-7 , pp. 226-230.
  • Vitalien Laurent: Les regestes des actes du patriarcat de Constantinople . Vol. 1: Les actes des patriarches . Fasc. 4: Les regestes de 1208 à 1309 . Institut français d'études byzantines, Paris 1971, ISBN 2-901049-24-9 , no.1637 .
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-43991-4 , pp. 104-105, 110.
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 2: Baanes-Eznik of Kolb . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , p. 379.
  • 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. 79 No. 5830.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 79.
  2. ↑ See Nicol, Last Centuries , p. 104 f.
  3. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 79.
  4. ↑ See Laurent, Regestes , No. 1637; PLP 1-4 Add., No. 90283.
personal data
SURNAME Johannes Drimys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἰωάννης Δριμύς (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek priest, usurper against the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II.
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1305