Constantine Maliasenos
byzantine Greek nobleman and magnate
Constantine Komnenos Maliasenos Doukas Bryennios (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Κομνηνός Μαλιασηνός Δούκας Βρυέννιος) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman and magnate active in Thessaly in the first half of the 13th century.
Life
The family of the Maliasenoi first appears with Constantine, but it is possible that a certain pansebastos sebastos Nicholas Maliases, attested in 1191, was his father or otherwise a relative. Constantine himself is usually called with the surnames "Komnenos Maliasenos", but occasionally the surnames of two other major Byzantine aristocratic houses, Doukas and Bryennios, are added to them. In addition, his epitaph, composed by Manuel Holobolos, claims that his ancestors were scions of members of the Komnenian dynasty "born in the purple", and of a person with the rank of Caesar. According to the modern prosopographer of the Doukas family, Demetrios Polemis, the obvious candidates are Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger and Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118).
In 1215 (earlier dated to 1230) he founded a monastery at Makrinitsa. At the time, the area was under the rule of the Latin Kingdom of Thessalonica. He married Maria, the daughter of Michael I Komnenos Doukas (r. 1205–1214/15), ruler of Epirus, and had at least one son, Nicholas Maliasenos. Another possible son is a monk called Neilos Maliasenos. Michael I appointed his son-in-law governor of the portion of Thessaly that he captured from the Latins in the early 1210s.
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