Nikolaos Laskaris

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Nikolaos Komnenos Laskaris ( Middle Greek Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Λάσκαρις ; * around 1200 probably in Constantinople ; † 1211 or 1212) was a Byzantine co-emperor in Nicaea from 1208 (or 1207) until his death .

Life

Nikolaos was the eldest son of Emperor Theodoros I Laskaris and his first wife Anna Komnene Angelina , a daughter of Emperor Alexios III. Angelos . He had a brother Johannes , who also died young, and the sisters Irene , Maria and Eudokia .

Before the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders on April 13, 1204, Nikolaos fled together with his parents to Bithynia , where the Laskarids founded the exiled kingdom of Nikaia . When Theodoros was crowned basileus in Nikaia in March 1208 (or as early as 1207) by the patriarch Michael IV. Autoreianos , Nikolaos became nominal co-emperor. The young Crown Prince died before his mother († 1212); the cause of death is unknown.

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literature

  • Michael Angold: A Byzantine Government in Exile. Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea, 1204-1261 . Oxford University Press, London 1975, ISBN 0-19-821854-0 , p. 42.
  • Michael F. Hendy: Catalog of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection . Vol. 4: Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261 , Part 2: The Emperors of Nicaea and Their Contemporaries (1204-1261) . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-88402-233-1 , pp. 447, 449.
  • Vitalien Laurent: Les regestes des actes du patriarcat de Constantinople . Vol. 1: Les actes des patriarches . Fasc. 4: Les regestes de 1208 à 1309 . Institut français d'études byzantines, Paris 1971, ISBN 2-901049-24-9 , pp. 6-8.
  • Ruth Macrides, Joseph A. Munitiz, Dimiter Angelov: Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies (= Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies . Vol. 15). Ashgate, Farnham 2013, ISBN 978-0-7546-6752-0 , pp. 422-423.
  • Nicolas Oikonomides: Cinq actes inédits du patriarche Michel Autoreianos . In: Revue des études byzantines. Vol. 25, 1967, ISSN  0766-5598 , pp. 122-124, 142-144.
  • Vincent Puech: The Aristocracy and the Empire of Nicaea . In: Judith Herrin, Guillaume Saint-Guillain (Ed.): Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204. Ashgate, Farnham 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-1098-0 , pp. 69–80, here: pp. 71.

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personal data
SURNAME Nikolaos Laskaris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikolaus Laskaris; Nikolaos Komnenos Laskaris (full name); Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Λάσκαρις (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine co-emperor, son of Theodor I. Laskaris
DATE OF BIRTH around 1200
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH 1211 or 1212
Place of death unsure: Nikaia