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Melissenos Family

Συγγραφή : Krsmanović Bojana (11/9/2003)
Μετάφραση : Daskalaki Photini

Για παραπομπή: Krsmanović Bojana, "Melissenos Family",
Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού, Μ. Ασία
URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7976>

Μελισσηνοί (15/2/2009 v.1) Melissenos Family (15/2/2006 v.1) 

Χρονολόγιο

 
Late 8th century: The Melissenos family emerges

Constantine V’s reign (741-775): Activity of Michael, the first known representative of Melissenos family

767-771: Patrician Michael Melissenos is appointed general of the theme of Anatolikon

Leo V Armenian’s reign (813-820): Activity of the second generation of Melissenos family; Michael Melissenos’ son, Theodotos, also named Kassitiras, is enthroned patriarch of Constantinople

815-821: Theodotos I (Melissenos Kassitiras) is appointed patriarch of Constantinople

815: Second iconoclastic synod in Constantinople, presided by Theodotos I, patriarch of Constantinople

843-852: Patrician Theodotos Melissenos is appointed general of the theme of Anatolikon

First half of the 9th century: Period of Kallistos Melissenos’ activity, first as a tourmarches and subsequently as duke of Kolonia

Second half of the 10th century: Period of the activity of the two brothers, Leo and Theognostes Melissenos

Basil II’s reign (976-1025): Leo Melissenos has many important military and administrative responsibilities. He was general of Anatolikon, duke of Antioch and domestic of the schools of the West with the title of magistros.

987-989: Bardas Phokas’ rebellion, to which Leo and Theognostes Melissenos participated.

First half of the 11th century: Melissenoi become related by marriage to the Vourtzis family

Constantine X Doukas’ reign (1059-1067): The period in which the wedding of Nikephoros Melissenos with Eudokia Komnene, Alexios I Komnenos’ sister, took place

1071-1078: Michael VII Doukas reign

1077-1078: Nikephoros Botaneiates’ rebellion. Nikephoros Melissenos, general of Anatolikon, is appointed μονοστράτηγος (monostrategos-the only strategos) of the themes of Asia Minor

Nikephoros III Botaneiates’ reign (1078-1081): Nikephoros Melissenos is exiled on Kos, because he supported Michael VII Doukas (1071-1078)in Nikephoros Botaneiates’ rebellion

Autumn of 1080: Nikephoros Melissenos rebels in Asia Minor against Nikephoros III Botaneiates

February of 1081: Alexios Komnenos, who would later become Alexios I (1081-1118), rebels in the European part of the empire (in Thrace)

April of 1081: Agreement between the two usurpers, Nikephoros Melissenos, who rebelled in Asia Minor, and Alexios Komnenos, who rebelled in the European part of the empire. Nikephoros Melissenos abandons his aspirations for the throne in exchange for becoming a caesar and receiving land in Thessaloniki and its surrounding area as compensation, as soon as Alexios I would seize authority. Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) comes to the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Nikephoros Melissenos is awarded with land in Thessaloniki and its surrounding area, and the title of caesar

1081-1118: Alexios I Komnenos’ reign

1114: Caesar Nikephoros Melissenos’ death

John II Komnenos’ reign (1118-1143): John Melissenos, son of caesar Nikephoros and Eudokia Komnene, probably ascends to high political position and subsequently resigns

12th century: Activity of John Melissenos’ two sons, who did not hold important positions in the state, a fact leading to the assumption that the Melissenos family is losing importance

13th century: There are testimonies about certain Melissenoi, land-owners from the area of Smyrna, for whom it is not possible to ascertain whether they belonged to the family from Phrygia

1453: The Fall of Constantinople by the Ottomans. Unimportant descendants of the house of Melissenoi are traced in the sources after the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire

16th century: Metropolitan of Monemvasia Makarios Melissenos revises Georgios Sphrantzes’ Chronicle adding a chapter dedicated to the history of the Melissenos family
 
 
 
 
 

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