Romanos (Kaisar)
Romanos ( Middle Greek Ρωμανὸς ; † after 1227) was a high Byzantine court dignitary in the Empire of Nikaia .
Life
There are few certain facts about the person of Romanos, who is only mentioned by the historian Pachymeres ; its origin is also in the dark. From the Byzantine exile - Emperor John III. Dukas Batatzes (1222–1254), possibly also by his predecessor Theodor I. Laskaris (1205–1222), he was awarded the high court dignity of an emperor , which was usually reserved for close relatives of the emperor.
After John III. defeated the two pretenders to the throne Alexios and Isaak Laskaris and the Latins allied with them in the battle of Poimanenon in the spring of 1224 , he was also able to bring the region of Scamandros in western Mysia under Nicean rule. Romanos and the Megas Domestikos Andronikos Palaiologos were commissioned by the emperor, probably in 1227, with the exisōsis ( super revision ) of the conquered province in order to prepare for the rebuilding of a functioning fiscal administration . Then Romanos disappears again from the sources.
swell
- Georgios Pachymeres 1, 222 (ed.Immanuel Bekker , CSHB 1835, reprint 2010)
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 , pp. 210, 241.
- 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. 451, 474.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Romanos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ρωμανὸς (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine court dignitary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th century or 13th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1227 |