Konstantin Palaiologos (son of Andronikos II)

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Konstantin Dukas Komnenos Palaiologos ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντῖνος Δούκας Κομνηνός Παλαιολόγος ; * between 1278 and 1281 in Constantinople ; † around 1334/1335) was a Byzantine prince and governor.


Life

Constantine was the second son of the emperor Andronikos II. Palaiologos and his first wife Anna , a daughter of the Hungarian king Stephan V. He was born in the Porphyra of the Great Palace of Constantinople and was therefore considered Porphyrogennetos . His older brother was the future co-emperor Michael IX. , he also had three younger half-brothers ( Johannes , Theodoros , Demetrios ). His younger half-sister Simonis was the future fifth wife of the Serbian King Stefan Milutin .

Since 1294 Constantine was married to Eudokia , the daughter of Mesazon Theodoros Muzalon . After her death he married Eudokia Neokaisareitissa before 1320 . Their daughter was named Eudokia Palaiologina ; with a mistress he also had the illegitimate son Michael Katharos .

Constantine was elevated to the rank of despot by Andronikos II in 1292 or 1294 . Around 1300 he took money from a widow, but gave it back to her at the urging of Senator Konstantin Palamas (father of Gregorios Palamas ). In 1305 he fought at the side of his brother Michael IX. against the Catalan company , which inflicted a crushing defeat on the Byzantines at Apros in Thrace . When his half-sister Simonis was to become a nun on her return journey in Serres after her mother's funeral in Constantinople (1317) , Constantine prevented this and handed her over to the Serbs . In 1319 he was appointed governor of Valona , from 1321 to 1322 he was governor of the theme of Thessalonike , which at that time also included the Strymon area to Melnik . He was in correspondence with the poet Manuel Philes .

In 1322 Constantine Palaiologos was ordered by his nephew Andronikos III. who had risen to become the anti-emperor in Thrace and sparked a civil war , captured as a possible rival to the throne and imprisoned in a drained well in Didymoticho . Later Andronikos III mitigated. the inhumane conditions of detention and had his uncle tucked into a monk's robe. He spent the rest of his life in monastery under the name of Callistus .

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literature

  • Franz Dölger : Byzantine Diplomatics. 20 essays on the Byzantine document system. Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1956, pp. 95–96.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издашиа. Ул. Bd. 336; Византо. Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 90–92, 101–102.
  • 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 .
  • Rodolphe Guilland: Recherches sur les institutions byzantines. Vol. 2 (= Berlin Byzantine Works. Vol. 37). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 5-6.
  • 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. 37, 341, 431.
  • Ljubomir Maksimović: The Byzantine Provincial Administration under the Paloiologoi. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0968-6 , pp. 92-93, 144-145.
  • 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. 79, 91.
  • Averkios Th. Papadopulos: Attempting a Genealogy of Palaiologists, 1259–1453. Pilger-Druckerei, Munich 1938 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1962), pp. 37–38 No. 60.
  • 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 , pp. 98–99 No. 21499.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 98.
  2. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 99.
  3. ↑ See Maksimović, Provincial Administration , p. 92 f.
  4. ↑ Cf. Gregoras 1, 357 f.
  5. ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 251.
personal data
SURNAME Constantine Palaiologos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konstantin Dukas Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos (full name); Κωνσταντῖνος Δούκας Παλαιολόγος Πορφυρογέννητος (Middle Greek); Callistus (order name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine prince and governor, son of Emperor Andronikos II.
DATE OF BIRTH between 1278 and 1281
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH around 1334-1335