Nicetas (son of Artabasdos)
Niketas , Middle Greek Νικήτας (* around 701; † after 742/743 in Constantinople ?) Was the eldest son of the Byzantine counter-emperor Artabasdos (741 / 42-743).
Life
After the successful usurpation of his father against Constantine V, Niketas, in contrast to his younger brother Nikephoros, was apparently not raised to the rank of co-emperor ( basileus ) , but was appointed by his father as a monostrategos and / or as a strategos with the high command of the troops of the topic Armeniacon instructed.
In August 742 or 743 Nicetas was defeated by Constantine V's troops at Modrine , but he managed to regroup his defeated army and pursue Constantine to Chrysopolis . He was defeated and captured again in another battle at Nicomedia . After November 2, 743, the day of the reconquest of Constantinople, Constantine V had Nicetas blinded together with Artabasdos and Nikephoros , demonstrated in the hippodrome and, according to the legendary vita of Michael Synkellos , locked up with the whole family in the Chora monastery , where he is also said to have died and been buried.
swell
- Kedrenos 2, 6
- Liber Pontificalis 1, 93
- Nikephoros , Historia Syntomos 64–66 (in the edition by Cyril Mango )
- Theophanes p. 417 and 420 (in the edition by Carl de Boor )
- Johannes Zonaras 15, 5
literature
- Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Volume 1. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , p. 192.
- Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 3: Leon (# 4271) - Placentius (# 6265). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016673-9 , pp. 403-404 No. 5374.
- Ilse Rochow: Emperor Constantine V (741–775). Materials on his life and afterlife (= Berlin Byzantine Studies. Vol. 1). With a prosopographical appendix by Claudia Ludwig, Ilse Rochow and Ralph-Johannes Lilie. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-631-47138-6 .
- Paul Speck: Artabasdos. The orthodox champion of divine teachings. Investigations into the revolt of Artabasdos and its representation in the Byzantine historiography (= Poikila byzantina. Vol. 2). Habelt, Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-7749-1857-0 .
- Warren Treadgold : A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2 , p. 357.
Remarks
- ↑ Paul Speck suspects that Nicetas came from an earlier marriage of Artabasdos and was therefore set back behind his younger brother, cf. Speck, Artabasdos , p. 333 FN 292. Hollingsworth in ODB 1, p. 192, considers a co-emperorship of Nicetas to be possible.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicetas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Νικήτας (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine general, son of Artabasdos |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 701 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 742 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Constantinople |