Constantine Akropolites
Constantine Akropolites or Acropolites (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Ἀκροπολίτης, Konstantinos Akropolitês) (died before August 1324), was a Byzantine scholar and statesman in the fourteenth century.
Life
Constantine Akropolites was the son of the scholar and statesman
Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, until the Emperor dismissed him for his opposition to the union of churches created by the Second Council of Lyon (1272). Under the new emperor Andronikos II, however, Akropolites returned to favor; perhaps as early as 1282 he was appointed Logothete, and on the death of Theodore Mouzalon in 1294, Akropolites was raised to the title of megas logothetes, which he held perhaps as late as 1321. He died sometime before August 1324, for a document dated May–August 1324, concerning the Monastery of the Anastasis, states he is dead.[1]
: 249
Constantine married Maria Komnene Tornikina,Akropolitissa married Emperor Michael of Trebizond.[1]: 253
Work
Like his father, Akropolites wrote much on
St. John of Damascus is in the huge collection of Jean Bolland. According to Donald Nicol, his numerous versions of saints' lives earned him the name of Neos Metaphrastes.[5]
References
- ^ JSTOR 1291235.
- ^ Nicol 1965, p. 251 speculates that Maria "was an otherwise unknown daughter of John Tornikes, Dux of the Thrakesion Theme in 1258, and later sebastokrator".
- ^ George Pachymeres, Andronicus Palaeologus, III.9-11.
- ISBN 978-0-88402-248-0. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ A list of his surviving works, both published and unpublished, can be found in Nicol 1965, pp. 354–6
Further reading
- Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Acropolites, Constantine". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1 AA–ANS. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 80.
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