Leon Diogenes

Leon Diogenes ( Middle Greek Λέων Διογένης ; * 1069 in Constantinople , † March 1086 near Silistra ) was a Byzantine prince and co-emperor from 1069 to 1071.

Life

Leon was the eldest son of the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes and the Eudokia Makrembolitissa . He had a younger brother Nikephorus and at least one older half-brother, Konstantin, on his father's side . Shortly after his purple birth , Leon was raised to the rank of co-emperor ( Symbasileus ) . He moved up to an imperial college to which, in addition to his father, the sons of Constantine X and Eudocias, Michael , Andronikos and Konstantios Dukas belonged.

When Romanos IV was overthrown after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, Leon was still a toddler. At the instigation of the emperor Johannes Dukas , the new sole ruler Michael VII withdrew his imperial dignity and banished him together with his mother Eudokia and his brother Nikephorus to a monastery on the Bosporus . Only Alexios Komnenos brought the two boys back to the imperial court in 1081 , while Eudokia voluntarily stayed in the monastery.

In contrast to his brother, Leon Diogenes proved to be a loyal supporter of the new emperor. Anna Comnena According to he caused Alexios for decisive action against the Normans , the 1081 under Robert Guiscard in the topic Dyrrhachion were sunken. Already appointed Dux of Sparta in 1085 , Leon accompanied the emperor in March 1086 on a punitive expedition against the Pechenegs to Paris . He was fatally wounded in a battle near Silistra .

In 1116, a son-in-law of the Kiev Grand Duke Vladimir Monomakh , who posed as Leon Diogenes , appeared in Paristrion as a Byzantine pretender to the throne .

swell

• Anna Komnena , Alexiade 4 , 106; 7 , 169-170, 174-175; 9 , 224

literature

• Alexander Canduci: Triumph and Tragedy. The Rise and Fall of Rome's Immortal Emperors. Murdoch Books, Sydney 2010, ISBN 978-1-74196-598-8 , p. 272.
• Jean-Claude Cheynet: Grandeur et décadence des Diogénai. In: Βασιλική Ν. Βλυσίδου (Ed.): Η αυτοκρατορία σε κρίση (;). Το Βυζάντιο τον 11ο αιώνα (1025-1081) . = The Empire in Crisis (?). Byzantium in the 11th Century (1025-1081) (= Ινστιτούτο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών. Διεθνή Συμπόσια . 11). Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Ε.Ι.Ε.) - Ινστιτούτο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών, Αθήνα 2003, ISBN 960-371-020-2 , pp. 119-137.
• Alexander Kazhdan : Rus'-Byzantine Princely Marriages in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. In: Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Vol. 12/13, 1988/1989, ISSN  0363-5570 , pp. 414-429, digital version (PDF 1.3 MB) .
• Basile Skoulatos: Les Personnages Byzantins de l'Alexiade. Analysis Prosopographique et Synthèse (= Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philoloqie. Sér. 6, Fasc. 20, ZDB -ID 437846-5 ). Nauwelaerts, Louvain-la-Neuve 1980, p. 213, (also: Louvain, Universität, Dissertation, 1978).

Web links

• Leon Diogenes in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World