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Abrampakes Michael
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Mentioned in the sources from April 1346 to May 1355. He appears as οἰκεῖος and δοῦλος of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan in the documents. He was a kephale (governor) of Serres in 1346. His mother was probably Eugenia Abrampakina Tatadena. Michael Abrampakes allowed Georgios Batatses Phokopulos to build a watermill. He issued a charter on this occasion. The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan confirmed the permission granted to Georgios Batatses Phokopulos by Michael Abrampakes in the prostagma charter from April 1346 (Ἐπεὶ ὁ οἰκεῖος τῆ βασιλεία μου κὺρ Γεώργιος ὁ Φωκόπουλος ἐδικαιώθε διὰ γράμματος τοῦ οἰκείου αὐτῆ κεφαλῆς τῆς θεοσώστου πόλεως Σερρῶν κὺρ Μιχαὴλ τοῦ Ἀβραμπάκη καὶ λοιπῶν ἀρχόντων τῆς βασιλείας μου καὶ τῶν ἐντιμοτάτων ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἀρχόντων, ὥςτε ποιῆσαι σύνεγγυς τοῦ μύλωνος αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕτερον ὑδρομύλωνα). His former estate is evidently attested in the land inventory the Monastery of Saint John Prodromos near Serres. The monastery bought his possession (ἕτερον ἐξ ἀγορασίας ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀβραμπάκη). He signed in May 1355 the contract of his mother, who sold a large shop to the Monastery of Saint John Prodromos near Serres.
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Anataulas
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Mentioned in the chrysobull charter of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan for the Esphigmenu Monastery from April/May 1346. It is not clear, if he was the son of the Sebastos Georgios Anataulas and the father of Georgios Anataulas. He possessed a part of the village Portarea in the Chalkidike, which was previously held by the Esphigmenu Monastery. The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan returned the property in the village Portarea to the monks of the Esphigmenu Monastery in April/May 1346 (Ἀντὶ δὲ τῆς γενομένης κατατριβῆς καὶ ζημίας εἰς τὰ κτήματα καὶ μετόχια ταύτης καὶ δι’ ἣν ἐνεδείξαντο εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν μου οἱ τ̣οιοῦτοι μοναχοὶ σχέσιν καὶ εὔνοιαν, εὐεργετεῖ πρὸς αὐτὴνν τὸ πρὸ χρόνων τινῶν χρατηθὲν καὶ ἀποσπασθὲν εἰς τὸ χωρίον τὴν Πορταρέαν μέρος καὶ δοθὲν τῶ Ἀναταυλᾶ ἐκείνω).
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Komnene Eudokia
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The last mentioned date of her appearance in the sources is the year 1395. The sources refer to her as κυρὰ, δέσποινα, before 1395. She was the daughter of Alexios III Komnenos, who was the Emperor of Trapezunt and Theodora Komnene Kantakuzene. She was married to Tāj al-Dīn (Τατζιατίνης), the Emir of Jānīk, on 8th October 1379. Her second husband was Konstantinos Dragases (Konstantin Dragaš) or the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes V Palaiologos after 24th October 1386. Her grandson was the Byzantine Emperor Konstantinos XI Palaiologos. Michael Panaretos relates about her journey from Constantinople to the Monastery of Saint Phocas at Kordyle on 4th September 1395. On the following day she returned back to Trapezunt. Georgios Sphrantzes wrote as an argument for the marriage of the Byzantine Emperor Konstantinos XI Palaiologos with Mara Branković the fact, that also Eudokia had married a Turkish chieftain and bore him a child, before she became the wife of Konstantinos’ XI. grandfather. The problem in the account of Sphrantzes is that he does not mention if the husband of Eudokia was from the paternal or maternal side of Konstantinos. Raymond-Joseph Loenertz, Ivan Đurić, Radivoj Radić, Hristo Matanov, Mihailo Popović and Anthony Kaldellis suggest that her husband was Konstantinos Dragases, other scholars plead for the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes V Palaiologos, who appears as the husband of Eudokia in the historical work of Laonikos Chalkokondyles.
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Lyzikos Georgios
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Died in 1351. He was a commandant of the soldiers at the acropolis in Thessalonike, 1328. He held the position of the governor of Edessa (Vodena), 1350–1351 (Λυζικὸς δὲ ὁ τῆς πόλεως ἄρχων). He came from Beroia. He defended the acropolis of Thessalonike against Andronikos III Palaiologos, just after the Byzantine Emperor had conquered the town. His soldiers forced him to handover the acropolis of Thessalonike to Andronikos III Palaiologos. He deafeated the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan at Kastoria. The Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos appointed him 1350 as governor of the town Edessa (Vodena), which was captured by the Byzantine army recently. He was injured in Edessa (Vodena) during the Serbian invasion of the town. The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan let Lyzikos’ beard to pull out as an act of revenge. Lyzikos was sent in chains to Skopje. He died on the way.
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Murьtatь
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Mentioned in the chrysobull charter of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan for Iakobos (Iakovь), the Metropolitan of Serres, concerning the Church of Saint Nicholas on the river Pčinja beneath the fortress of Kožle from 1352/1353. His brother was Nane. The Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan together with his son and his wife donated the Church of Saint Nicholas on the river Pčinja under the fortress Kožle, which was founded by his grandfather Stefan Uroš II Milutin, for life to the metropolitan of Serres. They granted him all rights of the church together with the land, the people, the vineyards, watermills, bought estates, estates given for the sake of soul and hunting grounds. After the death of Jakob, the metropolitan of Serres, the rights should devolve on the Monastery of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel near Prizren. Among the donated people were freemen from the Byzantine Empire, who came at the time when the Turks plundered Anatolia and were well received on the churchʼs land by the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin. Their arrival might have a connection with the presence of the Serbian troops under the command of Novakь Grěbostrěkь in Anatolia. One of the migrants was Murьtatь (I kьdi plěniše Turʼci Anatoliju, tьdii prïidoše slobodni ljudije izь Grьkьь na crьkovnu zemlju pri svetomь krali; a se imь imena: Gradislavь, Radь Ohreda, Murьtatь Nanevь bratь).
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