Manuel Komnenos Raul Asanes

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Manuel Komnenos Raul Asanes ( Middle Greek Μανουήλ Κομνηνός Ῥαούλ Ἀσάνης ; † between 1355 and 1358) was a Byzantine military leader and provincial governor under Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos .

Life

Manuel was a member of the Byzantine branch of the Bulgarian ruling family Assen (Greek Asanes ). Through his father Andronikos Asanes he was a grandson of Tsar Ivan Assen III. (1279-1280) and Irene Palaiologina . He had a younger brother, Johannes Asanes ; his sister Irene Asanina had been the wife of the future emperor Johannes Kantakuzenos since 1320.

Little is known about Manuel's childhood and youth, but he and his siblings probably grew up and were brought up in close proximity to the Byzantine imperial court. Since 1321 he was married to Anna Komnene Dukaina Palaiologina Asanina , a daughter of the protostrator Theodoros Synadenos , with whom he had a son Andronikos .

Since 1329 as a military leader in Thrace , Manuel Asanes was accused of treason in 1335 and imprisoned in Bera . When the Byzantine Civil War broke out (1341) he stood on the side of his brother-in-law Johannes Kantakuzenos, who got him out of prison and in 1342 entrusted him with the supreme command of the strategically important Didymoticho ; In 1344 he was governor of Bizye .

At an unknown time before 1345, Manuel Asanes was appointed Megas Primikerios . After Johannes Kantakuzenos took over government power in Constantinople on March 31, 1347 , he also awarded his brother-in-law the high court dignity of Sebastokrator . In 1351 Manuel, who was first referred to as a despot , besieged the Genoese settlement in Galata together with the protostrator Georgios Phakrases in vain ; in the same year he took part in the Second Palamitic Council in Constantinople.

It is unclear whether Manuel Asanes in the civil war after the deposition of John VI. in December 1354, his son Matthaios Asanes Cantacuzenus supported or like his brother John Asanes the camp of Emperor John V overflowed. He wore the title of despot at least until 1355. The time of his death is unknown, but to be set before 1358.

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literature

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  • Sterios Fassoulakis: The Byzantine Family of Raoul – Ral (l) es. Self-published, Athens 1973, pp. 73-75.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издашиа .ул. Bd. 336; Византо. Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 46–47.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији. In: Зборник радова Византолошког института. Vol. 11, 1968, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 141-192 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB ), there p. 186.
  • Herbert Hunger : Anonymous pamphlet against a Byzantine "Mafia" . In: Revue des études sud-est européennes. Vol. 7, 1969, ISSN  0035-2063 , pp. 95-107, here: pp. 96, 101 f.
  • Paul Lemerle : L'Émirat d'Aydin, Byzance et l'Occident. Research on the "Geste d'Umur Pacha" (= Bibliothèque Byzantine. Études 2). Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1957, p. 163.
  • 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 , p. 18.
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Byzantine family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) approx. 1100-1460. A genealogical and prosopographical study (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies. Vol. 11). Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington DC 1968, pp. 48-58 and passim .
  • Donald M. Nicol: The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-43991-4 .
  • Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 1. Fascicle: Ἀαρών - Ἀψαρᾶς (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/1). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7001-0169-4 , pp. 141–142 No. 1506.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 1, p. 141.
  2. ↑ See PLP 1, p. 141.
  3. ↑ See Nicol, Kantakouzenos , p. 116.
  4. ↑ See Nicol, Last Centuries , p. 232.
  5. ↑ See PLP 1, p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Manuel Komnenos Raul Asanes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Μανουήλ Κομνηνός Ῥαούλ Ἀσάνης (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine despot and military leader, brother-in-law of Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos
DATE OF BIRTH before 1321
DATE OF DEATH between 1355 and 1358