Andronikos Lapardas

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Andronikos Lapardas or Andronicus Lapardas (

Komnenian period
.

He is first attested as a participant of a

oikeios vestiarites and chartoularios.[1] In July 1167, he led the right division of the Byzantine army at the Battle of Sirmium, a decisive victory over the Hungarian Kingdom that ensured Byzantine control of the western Balkans.[2][3] In 1176, he participated in the disastrous campaign against the Sultanate of Rum that ended with the Battle of Myriokephalon.[2]

In 1182, King

Trajan's Gate
.

Once Andronikos I had established himself, he sent Andronikos Lapardas with a large force against John Komnenos Vatatzes, a nephew of the late Manuel I Komnenos, who had raised a revolt in western Anatolia. Vatatzes, who had become seriously ill, met Lapardas' army near Philadelphia. Vatatzes' forces were victorious and Lapardas' broken troops were pursued for some distance. However, a few days later, on 16 May 1182, Vatatzes died. Without his leadership the rebellion quickly broke apart.[2][4]

Lapardas quickly fell out of favour with Andronikos I, who had him imprisoned,

Pantepoptes Monastery in Constantinople. He died there shortly after.[5]

From a poem of Theodore Balsamon, it is known that Lapardas married a Theodora Komnene. Earlier scholars identified her as Manuel's sister, who is known to have married Manuel Anemas. Based on Lapardas' position among the imperial relatives in 1166, the scholar Lucien Stiernon proposed an identification of Lapardas' wife as a granddaughter of that Theodora and Manuel Anemas. The couple probably did not have any children.[6]

References

  1. ^ Stiernon 1966, pp. 89–91.
  2. ^ a b c Stiernon 1966, p. 89.
  3. ^ Kinnamos, p. 203.
  4. ^ Choniates, pp. 146–147.
  5. ^ Stiernon 1966, pp. 89–90.
  6. ^ Stiernon 1966, pp. 89–96.

Bibliography

  • Brand, Charles M., ed. (1976). Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, by John Kinnamos. New York: Columbia University Press.
    ISBN 0-231-04080-6
    .
  • ISBN 0-8143-1764-2
    .
  • Stiernon, Lucien (1966). "Notes de titulature et de prosopographie byzantines: Théodore Comnène et Andronic Lapardas, sébastes".
    ISSN 0771-3347
    .
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