John Limpidarios

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Johannes Limpidarios (also Livadarios , Middle Greek Ἰωάννης Λιμπιδάριος ; † after 1356) was a Byzantine military leader and separatist in Thrace .

Life

Nothing is known about the family background of Johannes Limpidarios. After the victory of the party of John VI. Cantacuzenus in the Byzantine civil war in 1347, he served as fleet commander the despot Nikephoros II. Dukas , the 1351-1355 apanagierter governor of the port city of Ainos and some other Thracian cities on the Hellespont was.

When Nikephorus Dukas sailed from Ainos to Thessaly in the spring of 1356 to drive out the Nemanjid emperor Simeon Uroš Palaiologos, who was related to him by marriage , and to take possession of his Epirotic legacy, Limpidarios used the despot's absence to rebel. He secretly returned to Ainos with his ships and took control of the city. He had the followers of Nikephorus expropriated, imprisoned or killed; his wife Maria Kantakuzene was allowed to flee to Constantinople by sea .

Limpidarios briefly established a regime in the port city that was de facto independent from Constantinople, but was driven out before the end of 1356. His future fate is uncertain. Ainos fell to the Genoese patrician Francesco I Gattilusio , Archon of Lesbos since 1355 (1376 at the latest) .

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literature

  • Catherine Asdracha: Les Rhodopes au XIVe siècle. In: Revue des études byzantines. Vol. 34, 1976, ISSN  0766-5598 , pp. 175-209, here: p. 198.
  • John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 , p. 294.
  • Thierry Ganchou: Autonomie locale et relations avec les Latins à Byzance au XIVe siècle: Iôannès Limpidarios / Libadarios, Ainos et les Draperio de Pera. In: Damien Coulon et al. (Ed.): Chemins d'outre-mer: Ètudes d'histoire sur la Méditerranée médiévale offertes à Michel Balard (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Série Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 20). Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantine, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-85944-520-X , pp. 353-374.
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479. A contribution to the history of Greece in the middle ages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984, ISBN 0-521-26190-2 .
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Katja Sturm-Schnabl : Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 6. Fascicle: Κομονηός - [Λω] χω [μαλ] άτης (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/6). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0567-3 , p. 189 no.14941.
  • Christopher Wright: The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462. EJ Brill, Leiden 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-26481-6 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 6, p. 189.
  2. ↑ See Nicol, Despotate , p. 135.
  3. ↑ See Wright, Gattilusio Lordships , p. 414.
personal data
SURNAME John Limpidarios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannes Livadarios; Ἰωάννης Λιμπιδάριος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine military leader and separatist in Thrace
DATE OF BIRTH before 1347
DATE OF DEATH after 1356