Johannes Gabalas

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John Gabalas ( medium Greek Ἰωάννης Γαβαλᾶς , † after 1250) was a Byzantine magnate , who after the death of his brother Leon Gabalas about Rhodes prevailed.

Life

John Gabalas belonged to an old aristocratic family that can be traced back to the early 10th century, when an Anna Gabala with Stephen Lekapenos , son and co-emperor I. Romanus was married. The family was of little importance in the following years, but in the 11th and 12th centuries also produced a number of higher civil and church officials.

Between July 1203 and April 1204, John's brother Leon used the power vacuum in the Byzantine Empire created by the siege and conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders to bring Rhodes and the neighboring Cyclades under their control. In the following years they operated a swing policy between the Empire of Nikaia and the Republic of Venice . After Leon's death (around 1240), Johannes nominally assumed rule over the island as governor under Nicean suzerainty . He described himself on his copper coins as "Lord of Rhodes"; It is doubtful whether he, like his brother, carried the title of Kaisar with imperial approval .

In 1248 Johannes Gabalas took part in a campaign by the Nicean troops against the Latin Empire near Nicomedia . While he was away from Rhodes, the Genoese took possession of the island by surprise . Emperor John III Immediately dispatched a force under the command of the Pinkernes Johannes Kantakuzenos , who recaptured the island by the spring of 1250. Rhodes was converted into a regular province of the Nikaia Empire, which formally ended the rule of Johannes Gabalas. The time and circumstances of his death are unknown.

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literature

  • Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Series Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 9). Reimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantines, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , pp. 150–151 No. 214.
  • Michael F. Hendy: Catalog of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection . Vol. 4: Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261 , Part 2: The Emperors of Nicaea and Their Contemporaries (1204-1261) . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-88402-233-1 , pp. 648-649.
  • Dimitri Korobeinikov: Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-870826-1 , p. 57.
  • Ruth Juliana Macrides: A Translation and Historical Commentary of George Akropolites' History. Phil. Diss. King's College London 1978, p. 329.
  • 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 KBE / EΙE. Vol. 7, 1987, ISSN  1105-1639 , pp. 237-273, here: p. 273.
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 3: Faber Felix - Juwayni, Al- . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2012, ISBN 978-2-503-53243-1 , pp. 35-36.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 150 f.
  2. ↑ See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 151.
  3. ↑ So at least Korobeinikov, Byzantium and the Turks , p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Johannes Gabalas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἰωάννης Γαβαλᾶς (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine magnate, ruler of Rhodes
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1250