Constantine Angelos Komnenos Dukas Palaiologos

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Miniature of the Sebastokrator Konstantin Palaiologos and his wife Irene in Lincoln College Typikon , around 1350

Konstantin Angelos Komnenos Dukas Palaiologos ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντίνος Ἄγγελος Κομνηνός Δούκας Παλαιολόγος ; * around 1230; † 1271 ) was a Byzantine general and younger half-brother of Emperor Michael VIII.

Life

Konstantin Palaiologos came from the noble family of palaeologists , who had belonged to the top of the Byzantine military aristocracy since the late 11th century and were related to the imperial dynasties of the Dukai and Komnenen . His parents were Megas Domestikos Andronikos Palaiologos and his second wife, not known by name.

Nothing is known about Constantine's childhood and youth. In the Byzantine sources it only appears in 1258 in connection with the coup d'état of his half-brother Michael Palaiologos against Georg Muzalon , the regent for the underage John IV Laskaris . After Muzalon's murder on August 25, 1258, Michael Palaiologos gave the young emperor into the care of Constantine and his brother Johannes Dukas Palaiologos . On the occasion of his coronation as co-emperor at the beginning of 1259 rose Michael VIII. His half-brother to the Kaisar and gave him command of the Nicaean troops in Paphlagonia . In the following year, after a successful campaign led by his half-brother Johannes against the despotate Epirus and the principality of Achaia , Constantine advanced to the position of Sebastocrator .

In 1263 Konstantin Palaiologos, together with the Parakoimomenos Johannes Makrenos , the Megas Domestikos Alexios Philes and the naval commander Alexios Strategopulos, undertook a punitive expedition to Morea against Wilhelm II of Villehardouin , who had recently been released from captivity , the Mistra and Laconia for the principality of Achaia wanted to. The Byzantines were badly beaten at Prinitza in Elis , whereupon Constantine Palaiologos had to flee to Mistra. During the siege of Nikli he was abandoned by his Turkish allies Melik and Salik ; he broke off the siege and returned to Constantinople . Makrenus and Philes suffered a second devastating defeat against the Latins at Makryplagi in the spring of 1264 .

At the end of his life, Constantine Palaiologos became a monk and took the name Kallinikos . He died around 1271.

family

Konstantin Palaiologos married Irene Komnene Laskarina Branaina around 1259/1260 . They had the following children:

  1. Michael Komnenos Branas Palaiologos
  2. Andronikos Branas Dukas Angelos Palaiologos
  3. Maria Komnene Branaina Laskarina Dukaina Tornikina Palaiologina
  4. Theodora Palaiologina Synadene
  5. Smilzena Palaiologina ∞ Smilez , Tsar of Bulgaria

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literature

  • Mark C. Bartusis: The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society 1204-1453. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA 1997, ISBN 0-8122-1620-2 .
  • Jean-Claude Cheynet, Jean-François Vannier: Études prosopographiques (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Série Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 5). Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantine, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-85944-110-7 , p. 178.
  • Franz Dölger : Παρασπορά. 30 essays on the history, culture and language of the Byzantine Empire. Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1961, pp. 181, 216–217.
  • Albert Failler: Chronologie et composition dans l'Histoire de Georges Pachymérès. In: Revue des études byzantines. Vol. 38, 1980, ISSN  0766-5598 , pp. 5-103, here: pp. 87-103; 39, 1981, pp. 145-249, here: pp. 189, 192.
  • 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. 177-178.
  • Deno John Geanakoplos: Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West 1258-1282. A Study in Byzantine-Latin Relations. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1959.
  • Ruth Macrides, Joseph A. Munitiz, Dimiter Angelov: Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies (= Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies . Vol. 15). Ashgate, Farnham 2013, ISBN 978-0-7546-6752-0 , pp. 18, 45, 432-433.
  • 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 , p. 39.
  • Averkios Th. Papadopulos: Attempting a Genealogy of Palaiologists, 1259–1453. Pilger-Druckerei, Munich 1938 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1962), p. 6 No. 5.
  • Demetrios I. Polemis: The Doukai. A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography (= University of London Historical Studies. Vol. 22, ISSN  0076-0692 ). Athlone Press, London 1968, p. 161.
  • Thekla Sansaridou-Hendrickx: "The Rights of Conquest" versus "Ancestral Rights". The significance of the "imaginary" discussion between the Prince of Morea, Guillaume de Villehardouin, and the sebastocrator Constantine Palaiologus. In: Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς Φάρος. Vol. 79, 1997, ISSN  1018-9556 , pp. 124-134.
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 2: Baanes-Eznik of Kolb . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , p. 263.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Sokrates Kaplaneres: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 9. Fascicle: [Ογουζάλπης] - Πέτκος (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/9). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7001-1641-1 , p. 98 No. 21498.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Cheynet / Vannier, Études , p. 178.
  2. ↑ Cf. Geanakoplos, Emperor , p. 41.
  3. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 98.
  4. ↑ See Bartusis, Late Byzantine Army , p. 49 f.
personal data
SURNAME Constantine Angelos Komnenos Dukas Palaiologos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κωνσταντίνος Ἄγγελος Κομνηνός Δούκας Παλαιολόγος (Middle Greek); Kallinikos (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine emperor and Sebastocrator, half-brother of Emperor Michael VIII.
DATE OF BIRTH around 1230
DATE OF DEATH 1271