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Tornikes Demetrios

Τορνίκης Δημήτριος

Description

Probably identical with the unnamed pinkernes, against who the secret organisation was plotting. Seems to be the same person as Pinkernes Tornikes, who appears in the charter of property confirmation issued by Paulos, the Metropolitan of Zichna, and the ecclessiastical court for the Hilandar Monastery in the case of the watermill at Chantax from November 1378. Mentioned in the donation deed of Pinkernissa Anna Tornikina for the Pantokrator Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos from August 1358. He is attested as δοῦλος of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes V Palaiologos. He held the position of Pinkernes in 1358. Married to Anna Tornikina. His offsprings were Ioannes Kantakuzenos, Andronikos Tornikes, Maria Tornikina and Eirene Tornikina. He signed the donation deed of his wife for the Pantokrator Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos from August 1358. He resided at that time probably in Constantinople.

Relations

Actors (4)
Name Class Begin End Relation Type Description
Byzantine Empire Group δοῦλος
Byzantines Group δοῦλος
Greeks Group δοῦλος
Serbian Empire Group δοῦλος
Sources (2)
Name Class Description
Donation deed of the pinkernissa Anna Tornikina in favour of the Megas Stratopedarches Alexios and the Megas Primikerios Ioannes for the Pantokrator Monastery from August 1358 Source Anna Tornikina owned a domain at Beltzista in the region of Zabaltia. She became the domain as a dowry from her father. This property was in 1358 in the hands of the Serbs. She promised a half of her possession to the Pantokrator Monastery in August 1358, because their founders, Megas Stratopedarches Alexios and Megas Primikerios Ioannes, were succesfull in reconquering the land from the Serbs in the area between Christupolis and the mouth of the Strymon. Anna Tornikina expected that they could also recover her domain.
The charter of Paulos, the Metropolitan of Zichna, for the Hilandar Monastery from November 1378 Source Paulos, The Metropolitan of Zichna, and the ecclesiastical court terminated in November 1378 the conflict over the watermill at Chantax in favour of the Hilandar Monastery.