Johannes Kantakuzenos the Younger

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Johannes Kantakuzenos ( Middle Greek Ἱωάννης Καντακουζηνός ; * probably 1342; † after 1380) was a Byzantine prince.

Life

Johannes was the eldest son of Matthaios Asanes Kantakuzenos and Irene Palaiologina ; he was thus a grandson of the eponymous Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos . His younger brother was Demetrios Kantakuzenos , and he also had younger sisters Theodora , Helena and Maria .

John was born into the Byzantine civil war that his grandfather John VI. led since 1341 against the legitimate underage heir to the throne John V and his Regency Council . He grew up in Gratini ( Gratianopolis , near Komotini ) in southern Thrace , which his father had held as apanage since 1344 .

After the deposition of Emperor John VI. In December 1354, Matthaios, who had become co-emperor the year before, continued the war against his rival John V from Thrace . In 1356/57 Johannes Kantakuzenos stayed with his father in Gratini; from there he traveled to the island of Tenedos . In the spring of 1357 Matthaios was captured by the Serbian voivode Vojihna , later handed over to John V and forced by him to renounce the throne in December 1357. Johannes Kantakuzenos, who at that time was staying in Epibatai near Selymbria , was elevated to the high rank of despot by the now sole ruler Johannes V , while his younger brother Demetrios received the title of sebastocrator .

After that there is only sparse news about Johannes Kantakuzenos. In 1361 he went with his father to Morea , which his brother, the despot Manuel Kantakuzenos , had held as an apanage since 1349. 1380 he founded in Mistra one Theotokos - icon that today in the Church of San Samuele in Venice is.

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literature

  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама. (= Посебна издања . Vol. 336; Византолошки институт . Vol. 8). Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 24, 110.
  • Giuseppe Gerola : L'effige del despoto Giovanni Cantacuzeno. In: Byzantion. Vol. 6, 1931, ISSN  0378-2506 , pp. 379-387.
  • Rodolphe Guilland: Recherches sur l'histoire administrative de l'Empire Byzantin: Le despote, δεσπότης. In: Revue des études byzantines. Vol. 17, 1959, ISSN  0766-5598 , pp. 52-89.
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Byzantine family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) approx. 1100-1460. A genealogical and prosopographical study (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies. Volume 11). Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington DC 1968, pp. 157–158, No. 49.
  • Iohannis Spatharakis: The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts (= Byzantina Neerlandica. Vol. 6). EJ Brill, Leiden 1976, ISBN 90-04-04783-2 , pp. 138-139.
  • Maria S. Theochare: Παναγία ή Άρτωκόστα . La Beata Vergine delle Grazie. In: Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς. 1953/54 ( Εις μνήμην Γ. Π. Οικονόμου ) , part 3. Athens 1961, ISSN  1105-0950 , pp. 232–252, here: pp. 234, 237–243.
  • Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 5. Fascicle: Κ ... - Κομνηνούτζικος (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Volume 1/5). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7001-0330-1 , pp. 93–94, no. 10972.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 5, p. 93.
  2. ↑ See PLP 5, p. 93 f.
  3. ↑ See Guilland, Recherches. P. 63.
  4. ↑ See Nicol, Kantakouzenos. P. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Johannes Kantakuzenos the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἱωάννης Καντακουζηνός (Middle Greek); Johannes Kantakuzenos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine prince
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1342
DATE OF DEATH after 1380