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Weiss 1969

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ID 117249
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Case Study Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition (1282–1355) , Historical Region of Macedonia TIB 16

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Günter Weiss, Joannes Kantakuzenos - Aristokrat, Staatsmann, Kaiser und Mönch - in der Gesellschaftsentwicklung von Byzanz im 14. Jahrhundert (Schriften zur Geistesgeschichte des östlichen Europa 4, Wiesbaden 1969).

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Actors (6)
Name Class Begin End Relation Type Description
Gabalas Ioannes Person Mentioned in the sources between 1341 and 1344. The title Protosebastos was bestowed upon him (1341-11-19 – 1342). He held the positon of Megas Logothetes, 1343 - 1344 and Megas Drungarios, 1341. He was a skilled orator according to Nikephoras Gregoras. In 1341 he was sent as an emissary to the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan by Ioannes Kantakuzenos. Alexios Apokaukos convinced him to switch the sides by telling him that Ioannes Kantakuzenos was disappointed by his mission to the Serbs. He defected therefore from Ioannes Kantakuzenos to the party of Alexios Apokaukos and the Byzantine Empress Anna Palaiologina. He wanted to conclude peace with Kantakuzenos for a while, but Alexios Apokaukos discouraged him. Alexios Apokaukos promised him his daughter, but the marriage never took place. After falling from favour of the empress circle, he sought in 1344 refuge at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, where he received tonsure. He was then moved to the Pammakaristos Monastery in Constantinople. After he had tried to escape, he was incarcerated.
Isaris Georgios Person Deceased by April 1374. He appears as κῦρ, οἰκεῖος of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan and the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes V. Palaiologos in the sources. He was in charge of Megas Drungarios τοῦ στόλου, 1344. Eparchos, 1348–1350. Megas Primikerios, 1366. Megas Konostaulos, 1367–1374. He was married to Xene Isarina. He had two sons (Michael Angelos Isaris and Theodoros Komnenos Isaris). His son-in-law was Georgios Stanisas. He was a wealthy landowner, who possessed several estates around Thessalonica. He was probably the student of Georgios Akindynos. He also corresponded with him. He was a supporter of the anti-Palamite party. When he turned his coat, he was criticized by Georgios Akindynos as a traitor. He was among the witnesses to the charter of protovestiarites Ioannes Dukas from September 1344, who rejected the claim of the revenue office on the part of the place Diabolokampos, a property of the Docheiariu Monastery. He joined in summer 1345 the proponents of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos. He was nearly killed during the revolt of the Zealots. He met Gregorios Palamas on Moun Athos between September 1347 and September 1348. The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan donated in April 1348 the dependant peasants in the area of Hermelia, which belonged to Georgios Isaris. The Byzantine Emperor Ioannes V. Palaiologos gave in December 1350 several landed estates to Demetrios Kokalas in addition to his oikonomia. He mandated Georgios Isaris with Manuel Chageres to execute the task. He had a 11 years lasting quarrel with the Hilandar Monastery. He required the sum, which Georgios Stanisas, his son-in-law, paid in order to obtain adelphata. When Stanisas died, Isaris tried to get the money of his son-in-law back. He did not even hesitate to forge documents related to the affair. He was a friend of Makarios Chumnos and probably sponsored his foundation of Nea Moni in Thessalonica.
Mpratilos Person Mentioned for the year 1342 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. Most likely of Slavic origin. He was an emissary to the Empress Eirene Kantakuzene and the inhabitants of the town Didymoteichon, who bore the seal ring of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos.
Synadenos, Theodoros Dukas Palaiologos Komnenos Person B: Protobestiarios, 1342 - 1343; Statthalter von Prilep, bis 1320; Domestikos τῆς τραπέζης, 1321; Protostrator, 1321 (?) - 1342; Statthalter von Thrakien, 1327 - 1328; Statthalter von Kpl, 1328 - 1330; Statthalter von Mesembria, 1331 - 1332; Statthalter in Epirus, 1338 - 1339; Statthalter von Thes/nike, 1341 - 1342; Großgrundbesitzer in Thrakien bei Serrhai, bis ca. 1343, Heerführer D: * ca. 1280. † ca. 1345 (vor 1346-04). V: S. d. Συναδηνός, ᾽Ιωάννης Κομνηνὸς Δούκας ῎Αγγελος u. d. Παλαιολογίνα (?), Θεοδώρα Κομνηνή (?). Heir. Συναδηνή, Εὐδοκία Δούκαινα Κομνηνὴ Παλαιολογίνα vor 1320. V. d. Παλαιολογίνα, Θεοδώρα Κομνηνὴ Δούκαινα ῾Ραούλαινα u. d. ᾽Ασανίνα, ῎Αννα Κομνηνὴ Δούκαινα Παλαιολογίνα. L: Anhänger d. Παλαιολόγος ᾽Ανδρόνικος III. im Βürgerkrieg gegen Παλαιολόγος ᾽Ανδρόνικος II. E. 1321 in Adrianopel. 1339 in Arta gefangengehalten. Floh 1342 beim Aufstand der Zeloten aus Thes/nike nach Gynaikokastron im NW von Thes/nike. Fiel von Καντακουζηνὸς ᾽Ιωάννης VI. ab und ging zu ᾽Απόκαυκος ᾽Αλέξιος über, der ihn zum Protobestiarios erhob, bald darauf aber unter Hausarrest stellte. Er starb verarmt und ohne Würden.
Syrgiannes Palaiologos Philanthropenos Komnenos Person
Tzamplakon Arsenios Person Died probably before August 1362. He is mentioned as κῦρ, δοῦλος of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos and Ioannes V. Palaiologos in the sources.He held the position of μέγας παπίας, 1333–1342 and 1352. He is attested as an apographeus (fiscal official) of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos in 1349 and as archon at Didymoteichon in 1352. He was a monk. Probably the son of μέγας παπίας Alexios Tzamplakon. He was the brother of Asomatianos Tzamplakon, Demetrios Tzamplakon and Tornikina. His sons were Michael Kaballarios Tzamplakon and Alexios Kaballarios Tzamplakon. He was the συμπένθερος of Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos. He accused in the early summer of the year 1333 at Chalkidike Philantropenos Palaiologos Syrgiannes of a high treason before the Emperor Andronikos III. Palaiologos. He came to Constantinople in order to attend the trial with Philantropenos Palaiologos Syrgiannes. He authenticated the deed of sale of the protostrator Theodoros Dukas Palaiologos Komnenos Synadenos in December 1333. He was sent in 1342 together with Konstantinos Palaiologos by Ioannes VI. Kantakuzenos to the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan. He was together with Konstantinos Palaiologos taken into custody by a certain Tzimpanos. Tzimpanos turned Arsenios Tzamplakon in to Alexios Apokaukos in Thessalonike. Arsenios Tzamplakon was insulted by the mob of Thessalonike as the patriarch of Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos. He was arrested and his possession was confiscated. According to the Praktikon issued in January 1342 by Michal Papylas Romanos was Ioannes Margarites the recipient of a confiscated land from Arsenios Tzamplakon located between Serres and Zichna. The possession of Ioannes Margarites at Kato Uska and Rachoba was declared exempt from the 9 nomismata tax and hereditary by the prostagma of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes V. Palaiologos from October 1342. The former estates of Tzako [...], most probably Arsenios Tzamplakos, consisted of arable land and vineyards. The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan donated in April 1348 the former property of Arsenios Tzamplakon, which was inside the town of Chrysopolis, to the Batopedi Monastery. He drew up before December 1349 the inventory of the property of the Monastery Theotokos Psychosostria in Constantinople, which was used for chrysobull charter of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos. After 1355 he was residing in the Batopedi Monastery as a monk. He bequeathed in February 1355 his patrimonial estate in Prinarion with als its area and rights, dependent peasants, abandoned land, vineyards, mills, uncultivated land and pasture, a part of land in Vela, winter pasture in Thermopotamos, annual fair of Saint Symeon in Vela and the fortification called Slanesion/Sthlanesion to the Batopedi Monastery. In May 1356 he added houses and the Church of Holy Mother of God Kamariotissa in the Kataphyge quarter at Thessalonike, his part of the patrimonial land in the mouth of the river Galikos including salty soil, some dikaia near the sea till Chenaru and a tower to the endowment, which he donated before to the Batopedi Monastery.