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 .
swell
- 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.
Web links
- Nikephoros Komnenos Petraliphas , Nikephoros Petraliphas in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World
- Petraloifas on Medieval Lands
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.
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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 |