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Hyannis name origin

Hyannis is named after the Indian Sachem Iyannough.(see below information from Wikipedia) Iyannough From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

Statue of Iyannough, in downtown Hyannis, MassachusettsIyannough (also Iyanough) was a Native American sachem and leader of the Mattachiest (Mattakeese) tribe of Cummaquid in the area of what is now Barnstable, Massachusetts. The town of Hyannis, the Wianno section of Osterville, and Iyanough Road (Route 132) are all named after him.

Historic records mention the assistance and entertainment offered by him and his tribe towards the Pilgrims and later colonists. When the son of Mayflower passenger John Billington wandered away from the new settlement at Plymouth in January 1621, Iyannough assisted William Bradford and his party in finding the boy [1]. The sachem impressed the Pilgrims as being personable, gentle, courteous, and fair-conditioned [2].

He died in 1623 when he was only in his mid-twenties. Following a surprise attack by the Pilgrims on the Massachusett tribe that winter, many Native Americans in the region including Iyannough grew fearful of the colonists and fled to hide in the area's swamps and remote islands [3]. It is believed that Iyannough himself died of exposure during this time. Upon his early death his lands went to his eldest son Yanno [4] (aka John Hyanno). Yanno is mentioned in several land deeds on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard and appears to have been a prominent figure in the early settlement of the communities.

In the mid 19th century, a farmer plowing his field discovered what is believed to be Iyannough's grave [5]. The gravesite is just north of Route 6A in the Cummaquid section of Barnstable and is maintained by a non-profit organization called "Tales of Cape Cod." A sign along Route 6A marks the spot.

A statue of Iyannough can be found today on the village green in downtown Hyannis

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Judith Herrin

Judith Herrin (born 1942), is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College, London. She studied history at the University of Cambridge and did her PhD at the University of Birmingham. She trained in Paris and Munich, worked as an archeologist with the British School at Athens and on the site of Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul as a fellow of Dunbarton Oaks. She was Stanley J. Seeger Professor in Byzantine History, Princeton University (1991-95) before moving to King's.

Honours

• Golden Cross of Honour for services to Hellenism by the President of the Hellenic Republic of Greece (2002)
• Medal from the College de France (2000)
• Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board, Past & Present
• Member of the Governing Board of the Warburg Institute, London University (1995-2001)
• University of London appointed Governor of Camden School for Girls (1995-2002)
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
• Member, British Academy Committee for the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
• Member, British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

Selected bibliography

• Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, London, 2007; Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008) ISBN 978-0-691-13151-1

• Personification in the Greek World, eds Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin (Ashgate: Aldershot 2005) ISBN 978-0754650317

• Porphyrogenita: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides, eds J. Herrin, Ch. Dendrinos, E. Harvalia-Crook, J. Harrris (Publications for the Centre of Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Aldershot 2003). ISBN 978-0754636960

• Mosaic. Byzantine and Cypriot Studies in Honour of A.H.S. Megaw, eds. J. Herrin, M. Mullett, C. Otten-Froux (Supplementary Volume to the Annual of the British School at Athens, 2001) ISBN 0 904887 405

• Women in Purple. Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001, Princeton University Press, 2002) ISBN 978-1842125298 [on Irene (empress), Euphrosyne (9th century) and Theodora (9th century)]. Spanish translation (2002), Greek translation (2003), Czech translation (2004)

• A Medieval Miscellany (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999) ISBN 978-0670893775

Dutch and Spanish translations (2000)

• The Formation of Christendom (Princeton University Press and Basil Blackwell, 1987). Revised, illustrated paperback edition (Princeton University Press and Fontana, London, 1989), reissued by Phoenix Press, London, 2001, ISBN 978-1842121795.

• Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century: The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai, Introduction, Translation and Commentary, edited with Averil Cameron. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. X (Leiden, 1984). ISBN 9004070109

• Iconoclasm, edited with Anthony Bryer (Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, 1977). ISBN 0704402262