Lakapenos

Miliaresion Romanos' I. Lakapenos with the names of his co-emperors Constantine VII, Stephanos Lakapenos and Konstantin Lakapenos on the lapel . Minted between 931 and 944

The Myrelaion (today “Bodrum Mosque”) in Constantinople was the burial place of the Lakapenoi

Lakapenos (also Lekapenos ; Middle Greek Λακαπηνός ) is the name of a Byzantine family who competed for the throne in Constantinople with the Macedonian dynasty in the 10th century . The name is derived from the Cappadocian place Lakape (Laqabin) between Melitene and Samosata .

Important members

• Romanos I. Lakapenos (around 880–948), emperor
  • Christophoros Lakapenos (around 900–931), co-emperor
    • Romanos Lakapenos (around 920 – before 927), co-emperor
    • Maria-Irene Lakapene (around 920/925 - around 966) ∞ Peter I (Bulgaria)
    • Michael Lakapenos Porphyrogennetos (around 922 – after 963)
  • Helena Lakapene (around 915–961) ∞ Constantine VII.
    • Romanos II
  • Theophylaktos Lakapenos (917-956), Patriarch
  • Stephanos Lakapenos (920 / 921–963), co-emperor
  • Konstantin Lakapenos (921 / 922–946 / 948), co-emperor
  • Basileios Lakapenos (around 925 – around 985/986), eunuch

literature

• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , pp. 1203-1204.
• Otto Kresten , Andreas E. Müller: Samtherrschaft, legitimation principle and imperial document title in Byzantium in the first half of the 10th century. Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7001-2226-8 (= session reports Austrian Academy of Sciences, philosophical-historical class. Volume 630).
• Steven Runciman : The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1929. Reprinted 1963.
• Friedhelm Winkelmann u. a .: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine period . 2. Department, Volume 3. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-016668-2 , pp. 589-594, No. 23831.

Web links

• Members of the Lekapenos family on Medieval Lands