Nikephorus Petraliphas

Nikephoros Petraliphas , with full name Nikephoros Komnenos Petraliphas ( Middle Greek Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός Πετραλίφας ; * around 1149 ?; † after 1200) was a Byzantine military leader and Sebastokrator .

Life

Nikephorus was a son of General Alexios Petraliphas , whose family originally came from Italy . Through his mother he was with the ruling family of Komnenen connected: Anna Comnena was a daughter of Maria Comnena , the eldest daughter of Emperor John II. , And Kaisars John Roger Dalassenos .

In the war against the Hungarian King Stephan III. was a Nikephoros Petraliphas one of the Byzantine troop leaders who attacked the Hungarians in 1166 on behalf of Emperor Manuel I from the north from the area of the "Tauroskythen" ( Kievan Rus ). After that the name disappears from the written tradition . As Sebastokrator and “grandson of Mary”, Nikephoros Petraliphas is only mentioned again on a seal dated around 1200 , with which he confirms benefices and privileges of the Panteleimon monastery on Athos .

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Johannes Kinnamos 260 (ed.August Meineke , CSHB , 1836)
Panteleimon files 69-70 (ed. Paul Lemerle et al., Archives de l'Athos Vol. 12, 1982)

literature

Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών. Τόμος Β ' (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Τ. 20β , ISSN 1106-6180 ). Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984 ( PDF file; 45.5 MB ), pp. 138–141 No. 210.
Franz Dölger (Ed.): From the treasure chambers of the Holy Mountain. 115 documents and 50 document seals from 10 centuries. Text tape / table tape. Münchner Verlag, Munich 1948, p. 90 No. 33.
Franz Dölger: Regest of the imperial documents of the Eastern Roman Empire from 565-1453. Part 3, Volume 3: Regesten from 1204–1282 (= corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times. Row A: Regesten. Dept. 1, Part 3, Vol. 3). 2nd edition revised by Peter Wirth . CH Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-00738-4 , p. 97 No. 1939b.
Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , p. 1643.
Donald M. Nicol : The Despotate of Epiros. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1957, p. 216.

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Remarks

↑ For chronological reasons it can be assumed that this commander was an older relative of the same name (uncle?). Cf. Βαρζός, Γενεαλογία , p. 139 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Nikephorus Petraliphas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nikephoros Komnenos Petraliphas (full name); Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός Πετραλίφας (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine Sebastocrator, great-grandson of Emperor John II.
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: around 1149
DATE OF DEATH	after 1200

[1] For chronological reasons it can be assumed that this commander was an older relative of the same name (uncle?). Cf. Βαρζός, Γενεαλογία , p. 139 f.