Theodoros Batatzes

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Theodoros Batatzes ( Middle Greek Θεόδωρος Βατάτζης ; † before 1166) was a high-ranking Byzantine military and son-in-law of Emperor John II.

Life

Theodoros was a member of the Batatzes officer family , which was promoted by John II and provided three Byzantine emperors in the 13th century . He married John II's youngest daughter Eudokia around 1130 and was thus brother-in-law of his successor Manuel I. The marriage resulted in four sons ( Alexios, Andronikos, Johannes , Isaak ) and two daughters (Theodora, Anna) . Possibly on the occasion of the wedding with the emperor's daughter, Theodoros was given the title Pansebastohypertatos . Under Manuel I, Batatzes also had the newly created dignity of a despot , which placed him directly below the emperor in the court hierarchy. The title is handed down on the seals of his sons Alexios and Johannes.

On behalf of Emperor Manuel I, Theodoros Batatzes was involved as a troop leader in several military operations in the Balkans and in Asia Minor . 1150/1151 he besieged by the Hungarians occupied Zeugminon at the confluence of Sava and Danube in the topic Sirmion . The city's defenders capitulated after the reinforcements promised by the Hungarian King Géza II failed to materialize. In 1158 Batatzes accompanied the emperor on a campaign against the petty Armenian prince Thoros II , who had renounced Byzantium in Cilicia . In doing so he succeeded in taking the important port city of Tarsos .

When and under what circumstances Theodoros Batatzes died is not known, but the date of death is to be set before 1166.

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literature

  • Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Τ. 20α , ZDB ID 420491-8 ). Τόμος Α '. Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984, p. 412 No. 80, digitized version (PDF; 280 MB) .
  • Rodolphe Guilland: Recherches sur l'histoire administrative de l'Empire Byzantin: Le despote, δεσπότης. In: Revue des Études byzantines 17, 1959, pp. 52–89.
  • Paul Magdalino: The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-52-152653-1 .
  • Stergios N. Sakkos: Ho Pater mou meizon mou estin II. Erides kai synodoi kata ton IB 'aiona. Thessaloniki 1966, pp. 142, 153.

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