Constantine Dukas (Thessaly)

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Konstantin Dukas Angelos ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντίνος Δούκας Άγγελος ; † 1303 ) was ruler of Thessaly and Central Greece since 1289 .

Life

Constantine was the second son of John I Dukas , called the Bastard of Thessaly , and his wife Hypomone Komnene Dukaina . He had two brothers, Michael Komnenos and Theodoros Angelos , and a total of four sisters, including Helena Angelina Komnene , Duchess of Athens and second wife of Hugo von Brienne , and Helena Dukaina Angelina , the second wife of the Serbian King Stefan Milutin . According to Karl Hopf , he was married to Anna Euagionissa Dukaina († 1317), with whom he had the son Johannes .

After the death of Johannes I Dukas in or shortly before March 1289, Constantine succeeded him in ruling Thessaly. His older brother Michael was out of the question as an heir, as he had been lured to Epirus in 1284 with the prospect of a marriage union , arrested there and sent to Constantinople , where he has been in prison ever since. Constantine ruled his territory from Neopatra , with the support of his younger brother Theodorus as co-regent. Initially, the two brothers were under the tutelage of the Epirotian de facto regent Anna Palaiologina Kantakuzene . In 1294 they conquered the Byzantine Demetrias on the Gulf of Volos .

When Philip I of Taranto , the son of King Charles II of Naples , wanted to assert his claims to Thessaly in 1295, the brothers sought support in Byzantium. Her mother, who had retired to a monastery after the death of her husband, achieved with Emperor Andronikos II that Theodoros and Constantine were elevated to sebastocrators , the third highest rank in the Byzantine court hierarchy. In return, they recognized the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire over Thessaly.

Constantine and Theodoros continued the war their father had started against Nikephorus I. Komnenus Dukas of Epirus and his Angevin allies. In the summer of 1295 they were able to take the cities of Angelokastron (since 2011 a district of Agrinio ), Acheloos and Naupaktos , which Nikephorus I had intended for his daughter Thamar as a dowry for his marriage to Philip of Taranto. Most of these conquests fell back to the Angevins at the peace treaty of 1296. After further fighting, Konstantin had to cede Angelokastron to Philip in 1301.

Konstantin Dukas, about whose government nothing else is known, died in 1303. He was succeeded as ruler of Thessaly by his son John II.

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literature

  • 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. 182-183.
  • 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 .
  • Charles Hopf : Chroniques gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues, publiées avec notes et tables généalogiques. Weidmann, Berlin 1873, p. 529.
  • Peter Lock: The Franks in the Aegean, 1204-1500 . Pearson / Longman, Harlow 1995, ISBN 0-582-05140-1 .
  • 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 , pp. 48-52 and passim .
  • Donald M. Nicol: The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-43991-4 , pp. 122, 142.
  • Charles Perrat, Jean Longnon: Actes Relatifs à la Principauté de Morée, 1289-1300 (= Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France. Series in-8 °, Vol. 6). Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1967, pp. 136-138, No. 147-149.
  • Demetrios I. Polemis: The Doukai. A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography (= University of London Historical Studies. Vol. 22, ISSN  0076-0692 ). Athlone Press, London 1968, pp. 97-98.
  • Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 1. Fascicle: Ἀαρών - Ἀψαρᾶς (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/1). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7001-0169-4 , p. 18 No. 212.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Polemis, Doukai , p. 98.
  2. ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 235.
  3. ↑ See PLP 1, p. 18.
  4. ↑ See Lock, Franks , p. 100.
  5. ↑ See Nicol, Epiros , p. 49; Lock, Franks , p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Constantine Dukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konstantin Dukas Angelos (full name); Κωνσταντίνος Δούκας Άγγελος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek ruler of Thessaly, son of John I Dukas Komnenos
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1303