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Kale (2)

Καλή

Description

Mentioned in the dedicatory inscription found on the western wall of the Virgin Maryʼs Church in Mali Grad from 1368–1369. She appears as a πανευγενεστάτη κεσαρισα κυρία Καλῆ in the inscription next to her portray. She was a κεσαρισα.She was married to Nobakos. Her children were Amirales and Maria. Her husband kaisar Nobakos sponsored the renovation and decoration of the Virgin Maryʼs Church in Mali Grad in the year 1368–1369 (Άνηγέρθη ἐκ βάθρου καὶ κόπού καὶ μόχθοῦ ὁ θεϊος κὲ πάνσεπτος ναώς ουτος της υπεραγίας δεσπίνης ἡμων Θεοτόκου καὶ ἀνηστορίθην παρὰ του αὐφθέντου αὐτοῦ πὰνευτυχεστάτου κέσαρος Νοβάκου ἠγουμενέβῶντὸς δὲ Ἰωνὰ μοναχοῦ. Αὐφθεντεύβοντος πανυψηλοτάτου κραλήου τοῦ Βεληκασίνου. Άρχαηερατεύωντος δὲ τῆς ἀγιωτάτης ἀρχιεπησκοπῆς τῆς Πρότης Ἰουστινηανης, ετους ͵ςωοζʹ). The family portrait of Nobakos has been preserved on the western external façade. She and her husband are painted to the right of the virgin. She is portrayed as a young woman.

literature

Adashinskaya 2020a — 375 (Nr. 36). 424. Fig. 4. 49
Bogevska-Capuano 2015 — 387. 388. 389. 391. ill. 57. ill. 59
Dhamo 1964 — 111-115
Djordjević 1994 — 25. 176–177. 207, n. 113. fig. 84–85
Ivanov 1931 — 59 (Nr. 6–7)
Kovačević 1956 — 56. fig. 24. tabl. 40
Miljukov 1899 — 68-69
Pallas 1971 — 320-321
Pavlović 2016a — 28, 71, 98, 117, 207-208
Petković 1950 — 261-262
Soteriu 1926 — 154–155, n. 1
Soulis 1984 — 215, n. 104
Trapp 2002 — Nr. 10311
Đurić 1975b — 31–35. fig. 4–7
Đurić 1976 — 133. 204 (fig. 82)
Šuica 2000 — 40-41

Relations

Name Class Begin End Relation Type Description
Byzantines Group κυράKiraDominaGospogja None
Greeks Group κυράKiraDominaGospogja None
Serbian Empire Group κυράKiraDominaGospogja None