Constantine Radenos
Konstantin Radenos (also Radinos , Middle Greek Κωνσταντῖνος ῾Ραδηνός ; † after April 13, 1204 ) was a Byzantine aristocrat during the Fourth Crusade .
Life
The Sebastos Konstantin Radenos belonged to the Radenoi family, which had been influential since the 10th century and was related to the ruling families of the Lakapenoi and Argyroi . He was a follower of Emperor Alexios III. on whose behalf he escorted the daughter of protostrator Manuel Kamytzes to her bridegroom Dobromir Chrysos in 1199 .
After the overthrow of Emperor Isaac II and his son and co-regent Alexios IV , a tumultuous meeting of the senate and priests met on January 25, 1204 in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople to determine a new ruler. According to the Novgorod Chronicle , the first choice fell on a certain Radenos, who can possibly be identified with the Sebastos of 1199. However, he evaded the coronation by hiding in a monk's robe from the crowd. After other candidates also had refused was finally on 27 (or 28) January Nicholas Kanabos emperor acclaimed , but already a few days later by the General Alexios Dukas Murtzuphlos deposed and murdered shortly thereafter.
After the fall of Constantinople on April 13, 1204, Constantine Radenos appears to have entered the service of the Latin Empire . The time of his death is unknown.
swell
- Niketas Choniates 507; 561-562 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Ser. Berol. Vol. 11, 1975)
- First Novgorod Chronicle 67 (ed.Joachim Dietze, 1971; digitized, p. 80 )
literature
- Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Series Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 9). Reimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantines, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , p. 141 No. 201.
- 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 , pp. 35, 114, 151.
Web links
- Konstantinos Radenos, sebastos and parathalassites , Konstantinos Radenos, sebastos and eparchos in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World
Remarks
- ↑ See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 141.
- ↑ For December 1203 a Konstantin Radenos is documented as Sebastos and Parathalassites in Constantinople; see. Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 141 FN 2.
- ↑ A seal dated after 1204 names Constantine Radenus as the Eparchus of Constantinople; see. Van Tricht, Latin Renovatio , p. 114.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Constantine Radenos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Konstantin Radinos; Κωνσταντῖνος ῾Ραδηνός (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine aristocrat during the Fourth Crusade |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after April 13, 1204 |