Nikolaos Kanabos

Nikolaos Kanabos , Middle Greek Νικόλαος Καναβός , (* 12th century; † 1204 ) was Byzantine emperor for a few days in early 1204 .

Life

After the overthrow of Isaac II and his son and co-regent Alexios IV on January 25, 1204, a senate and priest meeting met to determine a new ruler. After several candidates, including a certain Radenos , rejected an appointment, the election fell on January 28th on the nobleman Nikolaos Kanabos. However, this also happened against his express will. As a basileus he had practically no political power and is not even said to have left Hagia Sophia .

The general Alexios Dukas Murtzuphlos , who was already responsible for the deposition of the ruling duo, had his own ambitions for the throne. He offered Nikolaos Kanabos an important post as soon as he was appointed ruler himself. After Nikolaos Kanabos turned down this offer, Alexios had him deposed on February 3, imprisoned and murdered only a little later. Alexios then ascended the throne as Alexios V on February 5, 1204 himself.

swell

• Georgios Akropolites 7 (ed. August Heisenberg , BSGRT Vol. 1–2, 1903, reprint 1978)
• Niketas Choniates 561-564 (ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten, CFHB Vol. 11, 1975)
• First Novgorod Chronicle 67 (ed.Joachim Dietze; digitized, p. 80 )

literature

• Charles M. Brand: Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1968, ISBN 0-81-431764-2 , pp. 250-251.
• Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Series Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 9). Reimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantines, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , p. 142 no.202.
• John Julius Norwich : Byzantium . Vol. 3: Decay and Fall. 1072-1453 . Econ, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-430-17163-6 , p. 209.

Web links

• Nikolaos Kannabos in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexios IV	Emperor of Byzantium 1204	Alexios V.