Constantine Tatikios

Konstantin Tatikios (also Tatikes , Middle Greek Κωνσταντῖνος ὀ Τατίκιος ; † after 1192) was a Byzantine aristocrat and conspirator against Emperor Isaac II.

Life

The protonobelissimos Konstantin Tatikios was probably a descendant of Tatikios , a prominent general under Alexios I.

Around 1192 Constantine Tatikios planned a rebellion with the aim of overthrowing Isaac II. The background is likely to have been the military failures of the emperor in the 1186 war against the rebellious Bulgarians and Cumans . He gathered a group of 500 supporters who were able to hide in Constantinople for a while . Before the conspirators, who according to the historian Niketas Choniates also included influential personalities, could strike the decisive blow, the plot was betrayed. Tatikios was captured and blinded , the usual punishment in Byzantium for usurpation and high treason .

Tatikios' further fate is unknown. A little later, a nephew of Andronikos I , who had been overthrown by Isaac II , Isaac Komnenus , failed in another attempt to seize power in Constantinople.

swell

Niketas Choniates 423 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Vol. 11, 1975)

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. 126 No. 174.
Alexis GC Savvides: Internal Strife and Unrest in Later Byzantium, XIth-XIIIth Centuries (AD 1025-1261). The Case of Urban and Provincial Insurrections (Causes and Effects). In: Symmeikta 7, 1987, ISSN 1105-1639 , pp. 237-273, p. 271 there.
Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study (= Oxford Studies in Byzantium. ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 , p. 307.

Web links

Konstantinos Tatikes / Tatikios in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World

Remarks

↑ See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 126; Savvides, Internal Strife , p. 271 dates the attempted rebellion as early as 1190.

personal data
SURNAME	Constantine Tatikios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Konstantinos Tatikes; Κωνσταντῖνος ὀ Τατίκιος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine Protonobelissimos, conspirator against Emperor Isaac II.
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1192

[1] See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 126; Savvides, Internal Strife , p. 271 dates the attempted rebellion as early as 1190.