Cassianos

Kassianos ( Middle Greek Κασσιανός ; † after 1130) was a Byzantine military commander and separatist on the Pontic Black Sea coast .

Life

Kassianos officiated under Emperor John II as Dux of the strategically important topic Paphlagonia , which after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 was largely lost to the Seljuks . From 1126 at the latest, he controlled the Paphlagonian coastal area largely independently of the central government in Constantinople ; around the same time, Dux Konstantin Gabras set up his own business in Chaldia, a neighboring theme to the east . When in 1130 a great campaign of reconquest by the Byzantine emperor against the Seljuks and Danishmends in Asia Minor as well as against the breakaway provinces on the Black Sea coast became apparent, Kassianos preferred to submit to the Danishmenden emir Ghazi Gümüschtegin , who threatened him from the Paphlagonian hinterland. His further fate is unknown.

swell

• Michael the Syrian 227; 248

literature

• Claude Cahen : The Formation of Turkey. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century . Translated and edited by Peter Malcolm Holt. Pearson / Longman, Harlow 2001, ISBN 0-582-41491-1 , p. 19.
• 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. 104-105 No. 138.