Konstantin Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos

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Konstantin Palaiologos (center) with his parents

Konstantin Dukas Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντῖνος Δούκας Παλαιολόγος Πορφυρογέννητος ; * between August and December 1261 in Constantinople ; † May 5, 1306 ibid) was a Byzantine prince and general.

Life

Constantine was the third son of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Dukaina Batatzina . He was born a few weeks after the reconquest of Constantinople on July 25, 1261 in the Porphyra of the Great Palace of Constantinople and was thus the first real Porphyrogennetos since Alexios II Comnenus . He had three brothers, including the future emperor Andronikos II , and six sisters.

His father honored Constantine “higher than a despot ” in the court hierarchy ; that he actually bore this title is proven by contemporary seals. In 1280 he was sent to Macedonia as a troop leader against the Serbs . He then fought the Turkish threat in Asia Minor and consolidated the imperial rule over the Meander Valley . In the capital he had the studio monastery renewed.

Around 1290 Konstantin married Irene Palaiologina Raulaina , a daughter of the Protovestiarios Johannes Raul Petraliphas and Theodora Raulaina . In 1292 (or 1293) he was accused (probably wrongly) of preparing a usurpation in Nymphaion . Andronikos II had his brother arrested, dressed in monastic robes and imprisoned for the rest of his life; In 1299 the emperor took him to Thessaloniki .

Constantine died in 1306 as a monk Athanasios and was buried in the Constantine Lips Monastery in Constantinople. His son Johannes Palaiologos rebelled against Andronikos II as governor of Thessaloniki in 1325/26.

The Porphyrogennetos Palace in the northwestern part of the old town of Istanbul is named after Konstantin Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos .

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literature

  • Dimiter Angelov: Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85703-1 , pp. 121, 276-277.
  • Фрањо Баришић: Константин Порфирогенит Палеолог. In: Зборник радова Византолошког института. Vol. 22, 1983, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 43-58.
  • 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. 27, 195, 320, 382.
  • Averkios Th. Papadopulos: Attempting a Genealogy of Palaiologists, 1259–1453. Pilger-Druckerei, Munich 1938 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1962), p. 23 No. 37.
  • Alexander Riehle: Theodora Raulaina as founder and patroness. In: Lioba Theis , Margaret Mullett, Michael Grünbart (eds.): Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond (= Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte . Vol. 60/61, ISSN  0083-9981 ). Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-78840-9 , pp. 299-315.
  • 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. 97 No. 21492.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Macrides et al., Pseudo-Kodinos , p. 27.
  2. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 97.
  3. ↑ See Riehle, Theodora Raulaina , p. 302.
  4. ↑ See PLP 9, p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Konstantin Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konstantin Dukas Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos (full name); Κωνσταντῖνος Δούκας Παλαιολόγος Πορφυρογέννητος (Middle Greek); Athanasios (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine prince and general, son of Emperor Michael VIII.
DATE OF BIRTH between August 1261 and December 1261
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1306
Place of death Constantinople