Stephan Gabrielopulos

Stephan Gabrielopulos (with full name Stephanos Gabrielopulos Melissenos , Middle Greek Στέφανος Γαβριηλόπουλος Μελισσηνός ; † 1332 or 1333 ) was ruler of Thessaly from 1318 until his death .

Life

The last Greek ruler of Thessaly from the dynasty of Komnenodukai , John II. Dukas , had died in 1318 without leaving an heir. While north-eastern Thessaly was conquered for Byzantium by Johannes Kantakuzenos and the Almogàvers of the Catalan Company established the Duchy of Neopatria in the south , the powerful magnate Stephan Gabrielopulos succeeded in establishing himself as a quasi-autonomous prince in the controversial region of western Hessen. His dominion included the castles and cities of Trikala , Kastoria , Phanarion , Stagoi , Damasis and Elassona .

Around 1325 Gabrielopulos formally recognized the sovereignty of the Byzantine Empire and was rewarded by Emperor Andronikos II with the high title of Sebastokrator , which his predecessors had already held. This made him de facto the Byzantine governor of the region, although he continued to claim a high degree of autonomy. In 1327 he fought against the Catalans together with the Thessalian magnates Signorinos and Missili .

When Stephan Gabrielopulos died in 1332 or 1333, the renewed power vacuum led to war between the despotate Epirus and Byzantium, both of whom claimed the area for themselves. Giovanni II Orsini invaded Thessaly with his army, but could from the troops of Emperor Andronikos III. and the governor of Thessaloniki , Michael Monomachus , were repulsed. After Orsini's death in 1335, all of Thessaly returned to Byzantium.

swell

• Johannes Kantakuzenos 2, 28 (ed.Peter Wirth , transl. Georgios Fatouros / Tilman Krischer , BGL Vol. 21, 1986)

literature

• Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издашња , vol. 336; Византитото . Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 75–78.
• Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори у Византији . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 11, 1968, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 141-192 ( PDF file; 4.0 MB ), here: pp. 183-184.
• John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 .
• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 .
• Paul Magdalino: Between Romaniae: Thessaly and Epirus in the Later Middle Ages. In: Benjamin Arbel , Bernard Hamilton, David Jacoby (Eds.): Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. Frank Cass, London 1989, ISBN 0-7146-3372-0 , pp. 87-110.
• Ljubomir Maksimović: The Byzantine provincial administration under the Palaiologoi. Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-256-0968-6 , p. 133.
• Donald M. Nicol : The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479. A contribution to the history of Greece in the middle ages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984, ISBN 0-521-26190-2 , pp. 101-103.
• Donald M. Nicol: The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-43991-4 , p. 178.
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 3: Faber Felix - Juwayni, Al- . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2012, ISBN 978-2-503-53243-1 , pp. 44-47.
• Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 2nd fascicle: ' Βα ... - Γώτ (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/2). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-7001-0235-6 , p. 134 No. 3435.

Remarks

1. ↑ See ODB , pp. 813, 2074; Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , pp. 246, 253.
2. ↑ See Magdalino, Between Romaniae , p. 98.
3. ↑ Cf. Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , pp. 252 f.