Nikephorus Synadenos

Nikephoros Synadenos ( Middle Greek Νικηφόρος Συναδηνός ; † October 18, 1081 at Dyrrhachion ) was briefly heir to the throne of the Byzantine emperor Nikephorus III from 1080 to 1081 .

Life

Emperor Nikephorus III. had married after the accession to the throne on March 24th 1078 to legitimize his rule the wife of the deposed Emperor Michael VII , Maria of Alania . Their four-year-old son, Constantine , lost the status of co-emperor because Nikephorus disapproved of the choice of his bride Helena, the daughter of the Norman Duke Robert Guiskard . Instead, Nikephoros Synadenos, a nephew of the emperor, was designated as his successor in 1080. Anna Komnena described this decision as a serious mistake because it gave the Normans a pretext to attack the Byzantine Empire. Mary of Alania turned away from her husband and supported the coup d'état of the general Alexios Komnenos , who ascended the Byzantine throne on April 4, 1081. Synadenus belonged in October 1081 together with Konstantios Dukas , Leon and Nikephoros Diogenes to the young generals who urged Alexios I at Dyrrhachion to fight openly against the Normans; he fell in battle.

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• Anna Komnena , Alexiade 57-58; 130; 134

literature

• Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et Contestations à Byzance. (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Série Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 9). Réimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , p. 89 No. 112.
• Basile Skoulatos: Les Personnages Byzantins de l'Alexiade. Analysis Prosopographique et Synthesis (= Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie. Sér. 6, Vol. 20, ZDB -ID 437846-5 ). Nauwelaerts, Louvain-la-Neuve 1980, No. 153 (also: Louvain, Universität, Dissertation, 1978).
• Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza: Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople. 2nd Edition. Self-published, Paris 1999, ISBN 904747 , p. 425.

Web links

• Nikephoros Synadenos in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World