List of Byzantine families
This is a list of Byzantine families, including the aristocracy of the Byzantine Empire from the 6th- to 15th century.
With the rapid expansion of Byzantine economy from 950 to 1200, a self-aware aristocracy emerged; by 1200, some 80% of Byzantine officials bore a second name, as opposed to only 20% in 800.[1] Personal seals were an exhibit of social status and power.[2] Prior to 900, no seal with a second name has been attested.[1]
Dynasties
Noble families
- Aaronios, active in the 11th c.[3]
- Amytzantarioi, active in the Empire of Trebizond in mid-14th c.[4]
- Anemas, most active in 12th c., notably participated in 1105 conspiracy.[5]
- Angelos, most active in 12th–14th c., rose quickly through Constantine Angelos (1093–1166), produced three emperors
- Apion, active in Egypt in 5th–7th c.[6]
- Apokaukos, most active in the 13th c.[7]
- Argyros, most active in Anatolia in the 11th c.[8]
- Arianites, active in the 11th c.
- Aspietes, most active in the 12th c.[9]
- Axouch, active in the 12th c.[10]
- Botaneiates, most active in 11th–12th c., produced several generals.[11]
- Basilakes, most active in the 11th c.[12]
- Branas, active in Adrianople in the 12th–13th c.
- Bryennios, most active in the 11th–12th c., as commanders.[13]
- Bourtzes
- Chalkokondyles, active in Athens in the 15th c.
- Choumnos,
- Dabetenos
- Daimonoioannes, mostly active in Monemvasia
- Dalassenos, most active in the 11th c.
- Dermokaites, most active in 11th–12th c.
- Diogenes, most active in the 11th c.[14]
- Doukas, most active in the 10th–11th c.[15]
- Doxapatres, active in 11th–12th c., produced writers
- Euphorbenos
- Gabalas, active in 13th c.[16]
- Gabras, active in Chaldia in the 11th–12th c.[17]
- Glabas
- Hagiotheodorites, most active in the 12th c.
- Kaballarios
- Kabasilas, active in 11th–13th c.[18]
- Kalothetos, active in the 13th–14th c.
- Kamateros, most active in the 10th–12th c.[19]
- Kamytzes, active in the 12th–13th c.[20]
- Kastamonites
- Katakalon, active in the 10th–12th c.[21]
- Kekaumenos, active in the 11th c.
- Keroularios, most active in the 11th c.
- Kontomytes
- Kontostephanos, most active in the 12th c.[22]
- Kourkouas, most active in the 10th c.
- Kourtikios, active in the 10th–11th c.
- Laskaris, active in 12th–13th c., founded the Empire of Nicaea.[23]
- Lekapenos, most active in the 10th c.[24]
- Libadarios, active in the 13th c.
- Makrembolites, active in the 11th–13th c.[25]
- Maleinos, most active in the 10th c.
- Maliasenos
- Mangaphas
- Maurokatakalon, cadet branch of Katakalon
- Mavrogenis
- Melissenos, most active in Anatolia in the 9th–11th c.[26]
- Metochites
- Monomachos, most active in the 10th–11th c.[27]
- Mourouzis
- Mouzalon, most active in the 12th–13th c.[28]
- Notaras, most active in the 14th–15th c.[29]
- Pakourianos
- Parsakoutenos
- Pegonites, active in 11th–12th c.[30]
- Petraliphas, active in the 12th–13th c.[31]
- Philanthropenos, active in the 13th–14th c.
- Philes
- Phokas, most active in 9th–11th c.[32]
- Provatas, active in 11th–12th c.
- Rangabe
- Raoul, most active in 13th c.[33]
- Rendakis, most active in 8th–10th c.[34]
- Rogerios
- Sarantapechos, active in 8th c.
- Serblias, active in 11th–12th c.[35]
- Sgouros, active in 11th–15th c.[36]
- Skleros, most active in 10th–11th c.[37]
- Sphrantzes
- Stypeiotes
- Synadenos, active in 11th–12th c.
- Tagaris, active in 14th c.
- Tarchaneiotes, most active in 11th–13th c.
- Taronites
- Tornikios
- Tzamplakon, active in the 14th c.[38]
- Tzanichites, active in the Empire of Trebizond in the 14th c.
- Vatatzes, active in 12th–14th c., John III ruled empire of Nicaea (r. 1222–1254).[39]
- Xeros
See also
References
- 1 2 Stephenson 2010.
- ↑ Volkoff, Angelina Anne. "Power, family, and identity: Social and personal elements in Byzantine sigillography." A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages. Brill, 2019. 223-241.
- ↑ ODB, Aaronios.
- ↑ Vougiouklaki, Penelope (2003). "Amytzantarioi". Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor. Foundation of the Hellenic World. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ↑ ODB, Anemas, PLP, Ἀνεμᾶς
- ↑ ODB, Apion.
- ↑ ODB, Apokaukos.
- ↑ Cheynet, J.-C.; Vannier, J.-F. (2003). "Les Argyroi" (PDF). Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta (in French). 40: 57–90. doi:10.2298/ZRVI0340057C. ISSN 0584-9888. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23., ODB, Argyros
- ↑ Wassiliou-Seibt, Alexandra-Kyriaki (2015). "Kaukasische Aristokraten auf byzantinischer Karriereleiter. Eine kritische Nachlese des Quellenbefunds zur Familie der Aspietai (1081 – 1205)". Byzantinische Zeitschrift (in German). 108 (1): 207–218. doi:10.1515/bz-2015-0011., ODB, Aspietes
- ↑ ODB, Axouch.
- ↑ Krsmanović, Bojana (2003). "Botaneiates family". Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor. Foundation of the Hellenic World.
- ↑ ODB, Basilakes.
- ↑ ODB, Bryennios.
- ↑ ODB, Diogenes.
- ↑ ODB, Doukas.
- ↑ Savvides, Alexis (1981). "Ἡ Ῥóδoς καὶ ἡ Δυναστεία τῶν Γαβαλάδων τὴν Περίoδo 1204-1250 μ.Χ.". Δελτίον τῆς Ἱστορικῆς καὶ Ἐθνογικῆς Ἐταιρείας τῆς Ἐλλάδος (in Greek). 24: 358–376.
- ↑ ODB, Gabras.
- ↑ ODB, Kabasilas, PLP, Καβάσιλας
- ↑ ODB, Kamatheros.
- ↑ ODB, Kamytzes.
- ↑ ODB, Katakalon.
- ↑ ODB, Kontostephanos.
- ↑ ODB, Laskaris.
- ↑ ODB, Lekapenos.
- ↑ ODB, Makrembolites.
- ↑ ODB, Melissenos.
- ↑ ODB, Monomachos.
- ↑ Makripoulias, Christos (2005). "Mouzalon Family". Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ↑ PLP, Nοταρᾶς.
- ↑ ODB, Pegonites.
- ↑ ODB, Petraliphas.
- ↑ ODB, Phokas.
- ↑ Fassoulakis, Sterios (1973). The Byzantine Family of Raoul-Ral(l)es. Athens.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ ODB, Rendakis.
- ↑ Wassiliou-Seibt, Alexandra-Kyriaki (2012). "Der Familienname Serblias und seine Träger in Byzanz. Eine prosopographisch-sigillographische Studie". In Cheynet, Jean-Claude; Sode, Claudia (eds.). Studies in Byzantine Sigillography (in German). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 35–55. ISBN 978-3-11-027114-0.
- ↑ Vlachopoulou, Fotini (2001). Ο βίος και η πολιτεία του Λέοντος Σγουρού: Βυζαντινού άρχοντα της βορειοανατολικής Πελοποννήσου στις αρχές του 13ου αιώνα [The life and times of Leon Sgouros: Byzantine lord of northeastern Peloponnese in the early 13th century] (in Greek). University of Johannesburg.
- ↑ ODB, Skleros.
- ↑ ODB, Tzamplakon, PLP, Τζαμπλάκων
- ↑ ODB, Vatatzes.
Sources
- Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.
Further reading
- Fasolio, Marco. "The Byzantine Aristocracy: Profile of a Historiographical Debate." Storia della storiografia: rivista internazionale: 71, 1, 2017 (2017): 15-45.
- Krsmanović, Bojana T., and Ninoslava M. Radošević. "Legendary genealogies of Byzantine emperors and their families." Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta 41 (2004): 71-98.
- Kyritses, Demetrios S. (1997). The Byzantine aristocracy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Harvard University.
- Laiou, Angeliki E. (1973). "The Byzantine aristocracy in the Palaeologan period: a story of arrested development". Viator. 4: 131-.
- Makrypoulias, Christos G. (2024). "Ranks to Riches: The Social Mobility of Middle Byzantine Infantry Commanders". Moving Byzantium: 19-.
- Necipoğlu, Nevra (2003). "The Aristocracy in Late Byzantine Thessalonike: A Case Study of the City's Archontes (Late 14th and Early 15th Centuries)". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 57: 133–151.
- Stephenson, Paul (2010). "The rise of the middle Byzantine aristocracy and the decline of the imperial state". The Byzantine World. Routledge. pp. 22–33.
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