Kersak

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Isaac Dukas Kersak ( Serbian - Cyrillic Исак Дука Керсак ), actually probably Isaac Nicephorus Ducas ( medium Greek Ἰσαάκιος Νικηφόρος Δούκας ; Serbian - Cyrillic Нићифор Исак Дука ; † after 1345) was a Serbian aristocrat and military leader, who since 1343 at the latest the high Byzantine title Sebastokrator wore.

Life

The contemporary chroniclers give no information about Kersak's biography. In a donation bull dated 1345 by the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV. Dušan to the Peribleptos monastery in Ohrid , he is mentioned as Sebastokrator, and the later Tsar describes him as “the lovable lord of the kingdom”. His name is a corruption of the Serbian writer from "Kir Isak" ("Mr. Isaak"). It is very likely that Kersak is identical to the Sebastokrator Isaak Nikephoros , epigraphically documented for 1343 , who conquered Berat in Albania for the Serbs in 1342/43 . As the commander of Dušan's cavalry , Kir Isak Duka Kersak is named on an icon of Christ in the Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid .

Since Stefan Dušan's imperial title despot , Sebastocrator and Kaisar could give in recognition of the Byzantine constitutional traditions after his coronation as emperor on 16 April 1346 must Kersak his title nor the Byzantine emperor got. John VI is most likely to come . Kantakuzenos in consideration, who had been proclaimed a basileus against John V in 1341 . When Kantakuzenos met Dušan in Pristina in July 1342 , Kersak, whose real name indicates a Greek origin , could have entered the service of the Serbs on this occasion.

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literature

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  • Михаило Динић: За хронологију Душанових освајања византиских градова . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 4, 1956, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 1-10.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издања . Vol. 336; Византолошки институт Vol. 8.). Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 163–164.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори и кесари у Српском царству . In: Зборник Филозофског факултета . Vol. 10-1, 1970, ISSN  0352-5546 , pp. 255-269 ( digitized version ), here: p. 257.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 11, 1968, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 141-192 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB ), here: pp. 188-189.
  • Milčo Georgievski: Icon Gallery Ohrid . Institute for Protection of the Monuments of Culture and National Museum, Ohrid 1999, ISBN 9989-9993-3-3 ( digitized version ).
  • Цветан Грозданов: Охридското ѕидно сликарство од XIV век . (La peinture murale d'Ohrid au XIV siècle.). Завод за заштита на спомениците на културата и Народен музеј, Охрид 1980, OCLC 489881124 .
  • Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 4. Fascicle: Θαδδαῖος - Ἰωσούφης (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/4). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7001-0330-1 , p. 128 No. 8277.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Ферјанчић, Севастократори у Византији , p. 188.
  2. ↑ See Динић, За хронологију , p. 4 f.
  3. ↑ See Грозданов, Охридското , pp. 35–37; Georgievski, Icon Gallery Ohrid , p. 9.
  4. ↑ See Ферјанчић, Севастократори у Византији , p. 189.
personal data
SURNAME Kersak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isaak Dukas Kersak (full name); Isaac Nikephorus Dukas; Исак Дука Керсак (SrS); Ἰσαάκιος Νικηφόρος Δούκας (Middle Greek); Нићифор Исак Дука (SrS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian nobleman, sebastokrator
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1345