Hypatos

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Hypatos (

south Italian principalities. In Italian documents the term was sometimes Latinised
as hypatus or ypatus, and in Italian historiography one finds ipato. The feminine form of the term was hypatissa (ὑπάτισσα).

The creation of ordinary consuls in

Nicolas Oikonomides.[1] In the 11th century, the title rose again in importance, apparently outranking the protospatharios, but disappeared entirely by the mid-12th century.[1]

The title was often conferred to the rulers of south Italian city-states of the

patrikios from the Byzantine emperor, as a reward for defeating the Saracens. In Gaeta, the feminine title hypatissa (Italian: ipatessa) was replaced by doukissa (ducissa) during the reign of Docibilis II of Gaeta
and his wife Orania, in the first half of the 10th century.

The title was the root of the titles anthypatos (lit.'vice-consul', the original translation of proconsul) and dishypatos (lit.'twice consul'), as well as the office of hypatos ton philosophon (ὕπατος τῶν φιλοσόφων, lit.'chief of the philosophers'), a title given to the head of the imperial university of Constantinople in the 11th-14th centuries.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e ODB, Hypatos (A. Kazhdan), pp. 963–964.
  2. ^ Bury 1911, pp. 25–26.
  3. ^ Bury 1911, p. 22.

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