Constantine Kabasilas
Constantine Kabasilas (Template:Lang-el, Template:Lang-sq fl. 1235–1259) was a prominent Byzantine cleric in the mid-13th century. Before 1235 he had served as archbishop of Strumitza and then as metropolitan bishop of Dyrrhachium, and sometime before the mid-1250s he was appointed to the prestigious post of Archbishop of Ohrid.[1]
Born into an Albanian[2][3]family in Durrës, he was the brother of John Kabasilas, a minister at the court of the Despot of Epirus, Michael II Komnenos Doukas,[4] and of Theodore Kabasilas, another of Michael II's supporters.[5] Due to his brothers' close ties to the Epirote ruler, his loyalty was suspected by the Nicaean emperor Theodore II Laskaris, and he was put in prison until 1259, when Michael VIII Palaiologos set him free and allowed him to return to his see.[1]
References
- ^ a b Trapp et al. 1981, 10097. Καβάσιλας Κωνσταντῖνος.
- ^ Xhufi, Pellumb. "Maqedonia Perëndimore në historinë e arbërve të shek. V I I - XV". Studime Historike: 15.
- ^ Shine, Aneta Georgievska (1993). THE ST. PETER ICON OF DUMBARTON OAKS RECONSIDERED. University of Maryland. pp. 56–57.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Trapp et al. 1981, 10094. <Καβάσιλας> Ἱωάννης.
- ^ Trapp et al. 1981, 10087. <Καβάσιλας> Θεόδωρος.
Sources
- Trapp, Erich; Walther, Rainer; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja (1981). "Καβάσιλας Κωνσταντῖνος" [Kabasilas, Constantine]. Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vol. 5. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.