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Tornikina Anna

Τορνικίνα Ἄννα

Description

Issuer of the donation deed for the Pantokrator Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos from August 1358. She was married to the Pinkernes Demetrios Tornikes and therefore held the title of Pinkernissa. She was probably the daughter of Parakoimomenos Andronikos Kantakuzenos. Her offsprings were Ioannes Kantakuzenos, Andronikos Tornikes, Maria Tornikina and Eirene Tornikina. She 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.

literature

Actes de Saint-Pantéléèmôn — Nr. 12 (104–105)
Beyer 1984 — 20, 23, 26
Darrouzès 1977 — Nr. 2405
Ferjančić 1976 — 146-147
Guilland 1967 — I, 250
Laiou 1985 — 152
Lemerle 1945 — 207-208
Malatras 2013 — 117, n. 378. 142. 195–196. 262, n. 871
Nicol 1968 — 153 (Nr. 44)
Rautman 1991 — 60, n. 24
Saradi 1994a — 460-461
Schmalzbauer 1969 — 129 (Nr. 16)
Stavrou 2011 — 301, 351
Talbot 2012a — 1000, n.28

Relations

Name Class Begin End Relation Type Description
Byzantine Empire Group Nobleman None
Byzantines Group Nobleman None
Greeks Group Nobleman None
Serbian Empire Group Nobleman None
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.