Constantine Maliasenus

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Konstantin Maliasenos , full name Konstantinos Komnenos Dukas Maliasenos Bryennios ( medium Greek Κωνσταντίνος Κομνηνός Μαλιασηνός Δούκας Βρυέννιος , † before October 1256 in the monastery Makrinitissa ), was a Byzantine aristocrat and magnate in Thessaly .

Life

Konstantin Maliasenos was possibly a son of pansebastos sebastos Nikolaos Maliases , attested in 1191 . His epitaph , which in dialogical form of Manuel Holobolos was written, has him as a descendant of purple-born members of the dynasty of Komnenen from, including a Kaisar . Polemis relates the text to the Emperor Nikephoros Bryennios and Anna Komnena , the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos . Maliasenos married Maria Komnene Dukaina , a daughter of the Epirotian ruler Michael I Komnenos Dukas , with whom he had at least one son named Nikolaos . Another possible son was the monk Neilos Maliasenos .

Michael I appointed his son-in-law governor of Megalovlachia and Volos , the part of Thessaly that he had conquered from the Latin kingdom of Thessaloniki in 1212 . Before 1215 (not 1230, as claimed in older research) Maliasenus founded the monastery of Theotokos tes Oxeias Episkepseos on the slope of Mount Pelion near Makrinitissa. In 1239 he was possibly one of the supporters of the deposed emperor Manuel Komnenos Dukas , who landed with a ship in Demetrias to reclaim Thessaloniki from Theodoros I Komnenos Dukas and his son Johannes .

In a chrysobul issued by Michael II Komnenos Dukas in 1246 , Konstantin Maliasenos is mentioned as Ktetor (founder) of the Hilarion monastery in Almyros . In this context he is referred to as a despot ( δεσπότης ). This imperial title was probably bestowed on him by Theodoros I Komnenos Dukas, while the latter ruled as basileus in Thessaloniki from 1227 to 1230. In 1252 Maliasenos was sent by Michael II as an ambassador to the Nicean emperor Johannes Dukas Batatzes . Soon afterwards he seems to have turned away from Epirus and turned to Nikaia, because his son Nikolaos married a relative of the future emperor Michael Palaiologos .

Konstantin Maliasenos died before October 1256 as a monk in the monastery he founded near Makrinitissa.

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literature

  • Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών. Τόμος Β '(= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. T. 20β, ISSN  1106-6180 ). Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984 ( PDF file; 45.5 MB ).
  • Mark C. Bartusis: Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-00962-2 , pp. 489-490.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издашиа .ул. Bd. 336; Византо. Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 14, 61, 66.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији. In: Зборник радова Византолошког института. Vol. 11, 1968, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 141-192 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB ).
  • Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 .
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Despotate of Epiros. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1957.
  • Demetrios I. Polemis: The Doukai. A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography (= University of London Historical Studies. Vol. 22, ISSN  0076-0692 ). Athlone Press, London 1968.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 7. Fascicle: Μαάτη - Μιτωνᾶς (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/7). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7001-0714-5 .
  • Filip Van Tricht: The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228) (= The Medieval Mediterranean: peoples, economies, and cultures, 400-1500 . Vol. 90). EJ Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-20323-5 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Polemis, Doukai , p. 142 f.
  2. ↑ See ODB , p. 1277.
  3. ↑ See Polemis, Doukai , p. 143.
  4. ↑ Cf. Βαρζός, Γενεαλογία , p. 684 f.
  5. ↑ See Van Tricht, Latin Renovatio , p. 246 FN 340; PLP 7, p. 56 f .; ODB, p. 1273.
  6. ↑ See Nicol, Despotate , p. 142.
  7. ↑ Cf. Ферјанчић, Деспоти, pp. 14, 61; see also ders., Севастократори, p. 175.
  8. ↑ See PLP 7, p. 56 f.
  9. ↑ See Polemis, Doukai , p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Constantine Maliasenus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konstantinos Komnenos Maliasenos Dukas Bryennios (full name); Κωνσταντίνος Κομνηνός Μαλιασηνός Δούκας Βρυέννιος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine aristocrat and magnate in Thessaly
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH before October 1256
Place of death Makrinitsa , Thessaly