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Matschke 1994

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ID 124081
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Case Study Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition (1282–1355) , Historical Region of Macedonia TIB 16

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Klaus-Peter Matschke, Thessalonike und die Zeloten. Bemerkungen zu einem Schlüsselereignis der spätbyzantinischen Stadt- und Reichsgeschichte, in: Byzantinoslavica 55 (1994) 19–43.

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Name Class Begin End Relation Type Description
Lyzikos Georgios Person 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.
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.
Tzimpanos Person Mentioned for the year 1342 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. He was a Serbian shepherd, who migrated with his livestock periodically. He came from the village David near Prosek. He captured the Protosebastos Konstantinos Palaiologos and Arsenios Tzamplakon and brought them to Megas Dux Alexios Apokaukos, who was in Thessalonike. He became the land and properties in Thessalonike of Tzamplakon from Alexios Apokaukos as a reward (καὶ τῶν νομάδων Τριβαλῶν τις περὶ Πρόσοικον οἰκῶν ἐν κώμῃ τοῦ Δαβὶδ προσαγορευομένῃ, Τζιμπάνος ὄνομα, τὰ περὶ Καντακουζηνὸν τὸν βασιλέα ἐν Γυναικοκάστρῳ συμβάντα πεπυσμένος, ἐπεὶ παρ’ αὐτῷ οἱ πρέσβεις ἐξενίζοντο, οὓς πρότερον ἔπεμψε πρὸς Κράλην κελεύων ἐμμένειν ταῖς σπονδαῖς ταῖς πρὸς αὐτὸν, οἳ Κωνσταντῖνός τε ἦσαν ὁ Παλαιολόγος, τὴν ἀξίαν πρωτοσεβαστὸς, καὶ Ἀρσένιος ὁ Τζαμπλάκων· περὶ τούτους δὴ ὁ Τζιμπάνος βαρβαρικῶς διατεθεὶς, καὶ ἵππων τῶν ἀγόντων ἐπιθυμήσας καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀποσκευῆς οὔσης οὐκ ὀλίγης, ἅμα ἐκείνοις καὶ τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ βοσκήματα, ἃ ἦν αὐτῷ περιουσία, παραλαβὼν, ηὐτομόλησε πρὸς μέγαν δοῦκα ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ καὶ τοὺς βασιλέως πρεσβευτὰς ὥσπερ τι δῶρον προσήγαγε δεσμώτας. ὁ δὲ ἄγαν ὑπερησθεὶς, τὸν μὲν βάρβαρον ἠμείβετο φιλοτίμως, οἰκιῶν αὐτίκα καὶ κτήσεων μεγάλων, αἳ Τζαμπλάκωνι ἦσαν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ, κύριον ἀποδείξας).