INDEX TO PACHYMERES' HISTORY.
Roman numerals indicate the first and second part of the History; the larger Arabic numerals indicate the pages upon which they are printed in the Latin text. For the entire Palaiologan dynasty, look under the title PALEOLOGI.
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Abbas, magistrate of the Genoese sent to the populace residing in Constantinople, II, 623. He makes a pact with the Amogavars for his own prosperity, II, 624, 625. In vain for the Romans, II, 623. Abdication of the patriarchate exacted from Arsenius, I, 111. Persuaded by Germanus, I, 292. Falsely attributed to Joseph, I, 398. Voluntarily given by Veccus, I, 454. Considered deceitful by Athanasius, II, 175. Ambiguous for John Cosmas, II, 317. Abrampax, prothieracarius, II, 328. Abula, vexed by Persian incursions, I, 311. Acacius, acting as a mediator for the dissident church, II, 45. Achaia, prince of, assists the Despot Michael, I, 84. He injures John, the bastard son of Michael, ibid.; betrayed by him to the Romans, I, 85. He redeems his freedom, I, 86. He is created Grand Domestic by the emperor, I, 88. He is absolved by the Pope from the oath sworn to the emperor, ibid. Actuarii, who they are, I, 539. Addition of the word "Filioque" to the Nicene Creed; when and by what right it was made by the Latins, I, 666. Adrian V, Pope, pontificate of, I, 666. Adrianopolitans burn the Amogavars enclosed in a tower, II, 554. Ecaterina, daughter of Andronikos, destined as wife to Michael, II, 554. Egypt, prince of, is ignorant of the Bulgarians, I, 428. Elias, patriarch, incited against Emperor Michael by Maria, Queen of Bulgaria, I, 427. He resists the emperor regarding the reconciliation of the Churches, I, 428. Eni, fortress besieged by the Bulgarians and Tocharians, I, 255. By the Catalans, II, 639. Thence Azatimes the sultan flees, II, 641. Era of the Greeks, by what method it may be reduced to the era of Christ, I, 741. Aesculapius, why it is said he was born of a mother who did not undergo childbirth, II, 661. Ethiopians buy Scythians for use in war, I, 176. They obtain free passage for them from Emperor Michael, ibid. They snatch them from the Romans, I, 178. The Sultan of the Ethiopians is incited in vain by Maria the Bulgarian against the emperor, I, 428. Affinity of Emperor Michael with Apaga, Sultan of the Tocharians, I, 174. With Noga, Prince of the Tocharians, I, 544. With Despot Michael, I, 242, 439. With the King of Pannonia, I, 439. Agabana, castle of Oblivion, so called by Ammianus Marcellinus, II, 691. The origin of its name, ibid. Agalmatos, monastery near Nicaea, I, 112. Agari, called Greeks by the Latins, I, 367. Agathiopolis captured, I, 348. Agathiopolis treats with Osphentisthlabos concerning surrender, II, 601. Iacca, wife of Noga, mother of Tzaca, II, 264. Alais, the Persian, is terrified by the edict of Kazan Khan of the Tocharians, II, 402; he makes peace with the Roman garrison at Sardis, II, 403. Preparing fraud, he is suppressed by the Romans, II, 404. Alans, joined with the Tocharians, I, 345. They pass over to Emperor Andronikos, II, 307. Sent by him into the Eastern tract, ibid. They vex the Romans, II, 309. They fight strenuously for them, II, 312. They compel Michael to grant them a mission, II, 314. They kill Alexios Raoul, II, 320, 321. They seek pardon for this murder from the emperor, ibid. They fight bravely against Atmanes, II, 334. Because of unjust distribution of pay, they threaten Rontzerios with slaughter, II, 421. They besiege Rontzerios in Magnesia, II, 451. They put the Persians to flight, II, 452. They kill Rontzerios, II, 525. Fleeing precipitately, they are the cause of a great defeat for the Romans, II, 550. Defecting from Roman territory, they make raids, II, 590. They are vexed in turn by them, II, 602. They join themselves to Osphentisthlabos, II, ibid. They are defeated by the Amogavars and Turcopoles, II, 603. Alexandrian patriarch, Nicolaus, disapproves of the deposition of Arsenius, I, 271. Athanasius accompanies Emperor Michael on the expedition to Sangarios, I, 502. Alexios Alyattes, general sent against the Genoese, I, 423. Alexios, son of the Prince of the Lazi, John, refuses to marry the daughter of the prefect of the canicleion, II, 270. He marries an Iberian woman against the wish of the emperor, II, 271. Alexios Philanthropenos, see Philanthropenos. Alexios Philes, see Philes. Alexios Strategopulos, Caesar, see Strategopulos. Alexios Tarchaniota, see Tarchaniota. Abacenus, companion of Tamerlane and writer of his life, II, 703. Alisyras, duke of the Carmanians, besieges Philadelphia, II, 427. He takes the city of Tripoli, II, 433, 435. Alizones, II, 413. Alubardas sent to the Pope, I, 168. He returns having killed his companion, I, 169. Alum, mines of, and their preparation and use in the dyeing of cloth, I, 678. Philippus Amerala, Prince of the Canini and Coryphi, kinsman of Despot Michael, I, 508. Amogavars, who they are and whence they derive their name, II, 659. See Caleani. Amulets, sacred, customarily exchanged by those forming a pact as a pledge of faith, II, 225. Amuras, the Persian, vexes Mesothinia, II, 346. Amurius, having reconciled the Tocharians to himself, defeats Melecus repeatedly, II, 328. He is killed as a suppliant by Melecus, II, 329.
Anagurda, plundered by the Persians, II, 113. Anaplium, a town of doubtful jurisdiction, I, 88. Anasuranus, i.e., Anasurion, a surname of Chosroes, King of the Persians, II, 686. Anaxagoras, the beginning of his books on the nature of things, II, 660. Theodoritus, Bishop of Anazarbus, I, 437. Anchialus captured by the Romans, I, 211; by Osphentisthlabos, I, 601. Andreas, a pirate, vexes the Venetians, II, 495; he gives a captured Persian ship as a gift to the Emperor, ibid.; he is honored with offices on this account, ibid.; one of his ships is burned by the Venetians, II, 573; he kills captive Persians, ibid.; he is adorned with the rank of Admiral, ibid.; he brings supplies to the besieged inhabitants of Madytus, II, 584; defecting from the Emperor, he despoils the Romans, ibid.; he is defeated in a naval battle and captured, II, 585; he is redeemed by his uncle, ibid.; he is wounded while Callipolis is being besieged, II, 606. Andronicus, Bishop of Sardis, consents with difficulty to the coronation of Michael Palaeologus, I, 102; he disapproves of the removal of Arsenius, I, 118; he becomes a monk, I, 120; he strives to recover his former dignity, I, 272; as leader of the Arsenians, he acts on their behalf before the Emperor, II, 38; weary of the monastic life, he aspires to the patriarchate, II, 43; he regains his former dignity and becomes the Emperor's confessor, II, 50; he is surnamed Chalaza, ibid.; he acts unjustly toward the prelates, II, 52; he is accused of high treason, II, 65; he is ignominiously deprived of his honors, ibid.; see Chalaza. Andronicus Tarchaniota, see Tarchaniota. Anema, a tower, the prison of Veccus, I, 378. The Angeli, honored at Constantinople by the concourse of the people on Tuesdays, II, 85; why they were honored to the right of the Altar, II, 707; evils applied to the punishment of the wicked, ibid. Angelocoma captured by the Persians, II, 413. Angelus, a logariastes, II, 296. Angonis, a description of the Frankish spear, II, 655. Anna, an Alemannian, sister of Manfred, widow of John Ducas, eludes the incestuous desires of the Emperor Michael, I, 181; she is prevented by the Patriarch from being taken by him as a wife, I, 182; she is sent back to Manfred, I, 181. Anna, daughter of Eulogia, marries the Despot Nicephorus, I, 242; she promises to betray the Despot Michael to the Emperor Andronicus, I, 67; she carries out her promise, II, 72; she strives in vain to procure the marriage of Ithamara's daughter with Michael, the son of Andronicus, II, 201, 250; she gives her daughter in marriage to Philip, son of Charles, II, 450; retaining cities assigned as a dowry for her son-in-law, she is defeated by him, ibid.; she unites Thomas in marriage with the daughter of the Emperor Michael the Younger, ibid. Anna, daughter of the Despot Michael, wife of William, Prince of Achaia, I, 82. Anna, the Pannonian, marries Andronicus, son of the Emperor Michael, I, 318; she dies, I, 499; her splendid funeral, I, 500. Antimensia, what they are, I, 558. Antioch plundered by the Ethiopians, I, 179; by the Sultan of Babylon, II, 86. Euthymius, Patriarch of Antioch, consents to the removal of the patriarchate from Arsenius, I, 271; he is wondrously preserved by the aid of St. Nicholas, I, 429; he dies at Constantinople, I, 437; his successor is the monk Theodosius, I, 436. Antisthenes, his wise vow, I, 331. The Emperor Antoninus, his edict that services of slaves should not be made more burdensome, II, 618. Apagas, i.e., Apagan, takes Maria, the illegitimate daughter of the Emperor Michael, I, 174; the brother Chalau, II, 262; through a lapse of memory, Chalau is called brother by Pachymeres, II, 611, 774; he is created Abakas-kan, i.e., Emperor of the Moguls, II, 815; his year of death is indicated, II, 817. Apamea destroyed, I, 179. Aphamea, a fortress, defended by the Italians, I, 110. Apocrisiarii sent to Pope Martin, I, 503. The Aprenoi, a patrician family of Constantinople, I, 65. Manfred, King of Apulia, son-in-law of the Despot Michael, I, 82. Images of eagles are granted to Constantine Porphyrogenitus for the sake of honor, I, 499. Aquileia, the seat of the Venetian senate, II, 245. The archdeacons Meliteniota and Metochita champion the sound doctrine, II, 90; they are punished with prison and exile, II, 102. A type of bow, the Tzangra, II, 721. The Areopagus, instituted by Andronicus, soon falls into disuse, II, 237. Arganes is reconciled to the Tocharian Khan Meleccus Masuri, II, 327. Argentina, daughter of Opicius Spinola, marries Theodore, son of Andronicus, Marquis of Montferrat, II, 598, 773. Quicksilver, how it differs from mercury, I, 660; its use in excavating ports is now unknown, ibid. Argos, of doubtful jurisdiction, I, 88. Argun-Chan begins to rule the Moguls, II, 820; he dies, ibid.
The King of Armenia banishes Euthymius of Antioch to the sea, I, 429; princes deliver two of the King's daughters to the Emperor's envoys, from whom a bride is to be chosen for his son, II, 205. The Arsenian schismatics depart from the Church, I, 373; a discourse concerning this, ibid.; their power, I, 314. Arsenius, the Patriarch, is called to a deliberation concerning the choosing of a guardian for the prince, I, 66; he is received with the highest honor by Michael Palaeologus, the Grand Duke, I, 72; he favors his promotion to the empire, I, 79; he is anxious about that business, I, 90; he withdraws to a monastery, I, 111; he is recalled in vain, I, 113; he abdicates the patriarchate, I, 115; he is recalled to the patriarchate, I, 172; he crowns Palaeologus a second time, I, 173; he is excommunicated, I, 201; being asked for absolution, he refuses, I, 211, 255, 261; he rebukes him for having waged wars against Christians, I, 241; he is accused by Epsetopulus, I, 257; he refuses to appear before the synod, I, 264; he is condemned and deposed, I, 268; he is deported to the island of Oxia, I, 270; he tries in vain to restore Andronicus of Sardis to his status, I, 272; he is accused of high treason, I, 283; persons are sent by the synod to question him about that crime, ibid.; his responses, I, 287; he is cleared of the crime by the Emperor and gifted with favors, I, 289; his corpse, having been brought back to Constantinople with great splendor, is deposited in the temple of Sophia, II, 83; it is transferred thence to the monastery of St. Andrew, II, 85; the beginning and end of his life and double patriarchate, I, 724. Arsenius Hagiosymeonita is created Patriarch of Antioch, II, 56; his name is recited from the sacred diptychs at Constantinople, ibid.; having been accused, he is deposed, ibid. Arsenius Pergamenus is sent by the synod as legate to John Cosmas, II, 349. Asan the Elder, King of Bulgaria, blinds the captured Emperor Theodore Angelus, I, 82. Asan the Younger, grandson of the elder, marries Irene, daughter of the Emperor, I, 439; he is raised by the Emperor to the kingdom of Bulgaria, I, 440; he leads [an army] against Lachanas, I, 446; he takes Ternovo and becomes King of Bulgaria, I, 447; he flees Ternovo on account of a rebellion, I, 448; he is created Despot of Romais as compensation for the kingdom of Bulgaria, II, 57. Asan, maternal uncle of the Emperor Michael, dies while fighting against the Persians, II, 515. Aspra, a type of currency common among the Greeks, II, 722. Astrabite is captured by the Persians, II, 412. Astylzium, a fortress on the Scamander, where the money of the Emperor Theodore is kept, I, 68. Asunes, a river washing the fortress of Bellagrada, I, 510. Asus, a fortress, is surrendered to the Persians, II, 437. Atar, a leader of the Persians, captures Cubuclea, II, 580. Atarii, i.e., Tocharians, I, 129; why the Mogul soldiers in Persia were so called, II, 809. St. Athanasius's testimony concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, I, 383; II, 29. Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, created after the establishment of the peace of the Churches, favors the Emperor, I, 428, 429; he accompanies him on the expedition to the Sangarius, I, 502; he relates to Pachymeres what the Emperor said to him then, I, 313; he presides over the synod against Veccus, II, 25; refusing to ratify the condemnation of the prelates, II, 55, he is not recited among the patriarchs, II, 56; he takes part in the colloquy of the Patriarch Gregory with Veccus, II, 97; he does not wish to subscribe to the Tome of Gregory, II, 120; he persuades Cyprius to abdicate the patriarchate, II, 121; being vexed by Athanasius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, he withdraws to Rhodes, II, 203; returning, he is sent as legate to the King of Armenia, ibid.; he is despoiled by pirates, II, 204; he is sent as legate by the synod to John Cosmas, II, 319; he resists the restitution of Athavastus to the see of Constantinople, II, 367, 409; he is forced to return to Alexandria, II, 579; he is carried off to Euboea, ibid.; he is attempted by the Euboeans at Freria, II, 594; having departed thence, he is placed in custody at Thebes, II, 595; having been set free, he lives as a guest near Almyrus, ibid.; he is deprived of the patriarchate, II, 615. Athanasius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, is accused by Brula of Caesarea and deposed, II, 615. Athanasius Lependrenus takes part in the convention at Atramyttium, II, 53. Athanasius the monk, offered to Andronicus through Eonopolites, is very pleasing and is placed in the monastery of Logariasta, I, 107; he is elected patriarch, II, 139; he affects a vile garment, II, 140; his horrible oration, II, 142; contradictory are the reports of men concerning his virtues and miracles, II, 145; he uses inhuman monks as his ministers, II, 147; ignorant of the art of ruling men, II, 150; he seizes the monastery [of] Agri from Athanasius of Alexandria, II, 205; hated by all, II, 165; he signifies that he will voluntarily resign the patriarchate, II, 169; he leaves behind a hidden document by which he excommunicates those who oppose him, II, 173; he is led into the monastery of Cosmidion, II, 175; his resignation is by writing ex-
-›› pressa, ib. 15. Upon the document he hid being found, he is accused, II, 219. His responses, II, 23. He prophesies a future earthquake, II, 359. He pretends to refuse the patriarchate offered to him, II, 368. By the favor of Andronicus, he is restored to the patriarchate, II, 382. He refuses to recite the name of Athanasius of Alexandria, II, 409. He devotes himself to celebrating litanies even throughout the nights, II, 420; 581, 626, 631. Great ill-will is stirred up against him, II, 460. He attempts to abolish monopolies, II, 461. He is torn apart by insults by the Arsenians in a nocturnal assembly, II, 475. Libels are spread against him, 520. Sedition having arisen, he flees, II, 550. He seizes the goods of the clergy, II, 559. He greedily invades the goods of the exiled Athanasius of Alexandria, II, 579. He vexes the Chactos, II, 581. He obtains authority over forensic disputes, A. He removes the images of the three Germans, II, 614. Michael the emperor, ib. B. He rages against every kind of man, II, 613, 651. His first patriarchate was four years long, II, 781. When the second began, 790.
Athenaeus, defended against the animadversion of Casaubon, II, 663.
Atman infests the regions surrounding Constantinople, II, 316. He raids the neighborhood of Nicaea and other regions, II, 332. He destroys the forces gathered by Siurus, II, 414. He captures Belocoma, ib. He besieges Prusa, II, 415. He ravages the region situated near Nicaea, having been irritated by the threats of Maria, lady of the Mongols, II, [612]. He occupies surrounding areas, II, 612.
Attaleiotes, a groom, occupies Magnesia, II, 428. He excludes Noston-gum from the city, ib. He obtains the favor of the emperor through Rontzerius, II, 429. Defecting from Rontzerius, II, 459. He attacks the Italians found in Magnesia, ib.
The emperor celebrates a convention at Atramytium to settle the dissensions of the Church, II, 59.
Augustaeum, a forum of Constantinople, II, 662. St. Augustine, called a man of blessed memory by the Sixth Synod, II, 29. Augustus, the month usually called Poseideon, sometimes Maemakterion by Pachymeres, II, 701. Aulax, a place, II, 427. Chalyphas killed with molten gold, I, 129, 219. The nature of the Australian men, I, 175. Azatines, sultan of Persia, flees to the emperor for fear of the Tocharians, I, 129, 130, 609. He is splendidly received, I, 130. Joined to him, ib. Slothful and luxurious, I, 129. He conspires against the emperor, I, 229. Those shut up in the fortress of Aenos, I, 235. He is given up to the Bulgarians and Tocharians, I, 237. He requests encolpia from the emperor, I, 263. It is doubted whether he was a Christian, I, 267. He had a Christian mother, I, 131. He contends for the kingdom with his brother Hucratines, II, 609.
B Baburza, grandson of Tamerlane, founds the Mongol empire, II, 704. Babylas, bishop of Ancyra, II, 377. The pastoral staff, which schismatic patriarchs were accustomed to receive from the emperors, II, 717. Bahadur-khan, the last prince of the Mongols; when he began to reign and when he ceased, II, 823. Baibras, from a slave becomes sultan of Egypt, called Bundokdar, II, 811. He uses Scythian slaves for military service, ib. Baiulus, a Venetian magistrate, I, 163. Murdered by the Genoese in Constantinople, II, 242. Balanidiotes, a page of the emperor Theodore, I, 33. Baldwin, Latin emperor; upon the capture of Constantinople he takes to flight, I, 144. His negligence in conserving the palace, I, 161. He is received and taken as an ally by Charles, king of Apulia, I, 163, 317. The bath of the church in Constantinople, I, 259. Balsamon, a hundred years older than Pachymeres, II, 679. His account concerning the prerogative of the emperor is reconciled with Pachymeres, ib. Bardareola, a part of the royal bodyguard, I, 321. Whence they are so called, I, 549. Basil, Saint, bishop of Adrianople, is blinded and given into perpetual custody, I, 302. The Basilici brothers flee from the sultan to the emperor, I, 129. One is great hetaeriarch, the other, Basil, is a guard, I, 130. St. Basil receives gifts offered to the church by Valentis, the emperor, I, 480. His testimony concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, I, 481. He says the Spirit is subsequent to the Son, II, 29. The corpse of Basil, the emperor Bulgaroctonus, found and honorably buried, I, 125. Basil, son of Caballarius, I, 31.
Batu subjects Sclavonia and other lands to the Mongols, II, 808. Having been defeated by the Franks, he retreats into Persia and oppresses Calyphas, II, 809. Bebrices, a people of Pylopythium, are vexed, II, 413. Beclas, a word fashioned from the initial letters of five words, I, 28. Bellagrada, a fortress besieged by the Italians, I, 509. Its site and description, I, 510. Belocoma, or Angelocoma, plundered by the Persians, II, 415. Captured by Atman, II, 414. Bema, what it is, I, 611. Berengarius of Entenza, a Catalan, called by Pachymeres Mpy-rigerius Tentza, Frantzi Piceriotetza, II, 770. Berytus destroyed by the Ethiopians, I, 179. Biselii, what kind of honor this is, I, 675. Bizya besieged by Pharenda Tzime, II, 629. A city of Thrace in which the emperors keep a garrison of cavalry, II, 774. The palace of Blachernae, I, 161, 421. The Blachernae synod rages against the prelates accused by the monks, II, 50. Blachi, who they are, II, 663. Nicephorus Blemmydes, a monk distinguished in religion and doctrine, is approached by the patriarch Joseph, I, 338. His wisdom, I, 359. His testament, I, 341. Made void, I, 342. His writings against the schism, I, 477. Procession, Booses river, I, 510. C. The nature of the Brealium men, I, 175. Bospilas sent against the Catalans by Michael Palaeologus, II, 513. Bossilas, a leader of the Bulgarians fighting for the Romans, II, [549]. He releases captured children, ib. He commands the Alans and Turcopoles against the Amogabari, II, 549. Brulas, bishop of Caesarea, accuses Athanasius of Jerusalem, II, 615. Sent to investigate the matter, he himself occupies his see, ib. He is deposed, II, 616. Brysis, a fortress, is vainly besieged by the Catalans, II, 629. Bucellaria laid waste by the Persians, I, 221. The Bulgarians capture the emperor Theodore Angelus, who had been defeated, I, 82. Their king, Constantine, is stirred up against the emperor Michael by his wife Irene, I, 210. They are restrained, ib. Joined with the Tocharians, they attempt to capture the emperor, I, 231. Besieging the fortress of Aenos, they retreat upon the surrender of Azatines, I, 233. They make peace with the emperor, I, 542. Again they prepare war against him at the instigation of Queen Maria, I, 427. They are contemned by the sultan of Egypt, I, 428. They are conquered by Lachanas, I, [444?]. They acknowledge Asanes as king with the Tocharians, I, 445. They put Asanes to flight, having elevated Terteres to the kingdom, I, 458. They are slaughtered while crossing the Scafida river, II, 446. In their turn they defeat the Romans, ib. Their custom of dismissing captured children, ib.
C Three hundred cavalry given by the lord of Thebes to John Nothus, I, 328. The primary race of cavalry of Constantinople, I, 65. Michael Caballarius, great connostabulus, perishes, I, 411. Cabasilas, an actuary, warns Andronicus of the danger to his ailing father, I, 530. The corpse of some monk is considered holy, II, 480. Caesar. See Strategopulus. Callipolis, occupied by the mutinous Catalans, is fortified, II, [542]. By the betrayal of the magistrates it is liberated, ib. The Romans, attacking the city again, are put to flight, II, 543. It is besieged by the Genoese, II, 605. Caloidas is blinded, I, 492. Description of the camelopard, I, 177. The people are convened by the sound of bells, II, 32. Campus Furentis, a place, II, 687. Canicleum, what it is, II, 688. Its prefecture, i.e., the office of chancellor, ib. Caniclinus, i.e., chancellor, II, 689. Canina, a fortress surrendered to King Charles, I, 508. The Italians, having been defeated, flee there, I, 515. Dog signifies king among the Tocharians, I, 346. Cannaburius, a minister of Irene, widow of Asanes, II, 509. Canstritzis, a city captured, I, 348. The primary race of the Cantacuzeni, I, 65. Caracalus of Nicomedia lays the yoke of the Gospel at the ordination of the patriarch Athanasius, II, 146. Carbas, a eunuch, is slaughtered, II, 76. Cardinals, so called from the hinge, I, 360. On this matter, a passage of Pope Pius II, 659. The emperor courts them, I, 209. The Carmani, under the leader Alisyra, besiege Philadelphia, II, 421.
Chela, a fortress, place of exile for the patriarch Joseph, I, 419. Captured by the barbarians, II, 412. Campantas, or Carmpantanes, called by his brother Cazanes from the Indies to the succession of the empire, II, 159. He assumes the empire, ibid. Defeats the Persians, II, 388. Beginning and end of his reign, II, 825. Charles, King of Apulia, is chosen by the Pope as leader against the rebel Manfred, I, 185, 317. Inherits his conquered kingdom, I, 186. Joins by marriage with Baldwin, a fugitive in Constantinople, I, 163. Complains that power is denied to him by the Pope, I, 409. Receives the fortress of the Caminos in surrender, I, 508. Places a garrison there, I, 509. Carolus, a certain person, kills the protovestiarius Muzalon, I, 61. Betrays the conspirators, I, 284. Carthage, a stronghold for the Ethiopians, I, 363. Caspian Gates, I, 344. Cassianus, great primicerius and prefect of Mesothinia, accused of treason and recalled, II, 618. Refuses to come unless his safety is guaranteed by pledges, II, 619. Betrayed by the Chelenses and captured, ibid. Skilled in the art of war, II, 620. Castoria, captured by the despot John, I, 107. Castle of Oblivion, why so called, II, 691. Why called Agabana by Amianus, and Giligerdon by Simocatta, II, 692. Catanei, masters of Phocaea, I, 676. Catechumenea, what they are, I, 46. Catelans, led by Rontzerio, rage cruelly at Cyzicus, II, 593, 418. Having raised the siege of Magnesia, II, 480. Transferred to the Western continent, they give examples of lust and greed, II, 481. Reproved for demanding more from the emperor than what is just, II, 486, 487. Their embassies to the emperor are in vain, II, 591, 514. Slaughtered by the Romans after Rontzerio is killed, II, 526. They kill Romans who meet them at Callipolis, II, 527. Deserted by the Sicali, ibid. They plunder the Roman inhabitants of the coast, II, 528. Take Perinthus by storm, II, 529. The treachery of a certain Catelan, honored by Andronicus, is detected, ibid. He pays the penalty, II, 593. The Catelans defeat Emperor Michael, II, 594. They betray the Cleenses to the Persians, II, 580. They ravage the regions near Mount Gano, II, 585. Besiege Rudestum in vain, II, 586. They ravage the territory of Orestias, II, 605. Attempt Pamphylum in vain, II, 605. Raise the siege of Didymotichus, ibid. Spurning peace, II, 625. They head for Constantinople, II, 626. Recalled from their undertaking upon hearing of the slaughter of their men, II, 627. Afflicted by famine and plague, they desire to cross the river Maritza, II, 636. Their leaders being mutually hostile, they head for Cassandrea, II, 531. In the battle joined there, Romofortus emerges superior, II, 632. The double beginning of the Catelan war is confused by Pachymeres, II, 799. Catharus, ambassador of the Bulgarian queen, I, 428. Catherine, daughter of Baldwin, marrying Charles, King of France, brings him the title of Emperor of Constantinople, II, 763. Cazanes, Khan of the Tocharoi, tracing his lineage from Chalau and Apaga, II, 262. Marries the daughter of Emperor Andronicus, II, 402. Forbids the barbarians to invade the Roman Empire, ibid. Proposes Cyrus, Darius, and others as models for himself, II, 457. Uses the Christian Iberians in war, ibid. Believes a great omen of victory is placed in the sign of the cross, ibid. Defeats the Sultan of the Arabs, ibid. Skilled in mechanical art, II, 438. Considers that God is to be imitated in the governing of men, ibid. Coins struck by him from the purest gold, ibid. Excludes his brother Tuctaine from the empire, ibid. Designates Campantanes as his successor, II, 459. Dies in the sixth year of his reign, at the age of thirty-five, II, 456, 439. Celtae, ax-bearers and faithful guards, I, 71. The prison is handed over to them to be guarded, I, 378. Cenchreae, a fortress by the Scamander, I, 487. Besieged by the Persians, II, 443. Forced to surrender, it is destroyed by fire, II, 444. Ceras, a port of Constantinople, I, 324. Ceremony of the coronation of Michael described, I, 195. Promotion of John to despot, I, 196. Chabea, a fortress on the Sangaris, I, 419. Chadenus demands tributes from the garrison, I, 18. Sent to Thessalonica to capture Michael Palaeologus, I, 27; his empire, I, 30. Chalaza, Bishop of Sardis, urges Germanus to resign the patriarchate, I, 296. Accused by Germanus before the emperor, I, 297. See Andronicus of Sardis. Chalcedonian canon, falsely said by the Greeks to have granted primacy to the See of Constantinople, I, 661. Character of the seal of Emperor Michael, I, 532. Chatzices negotiates in vain for a treaty with Emperor Andronicus on behalf of the Iberians, II, 620. Chios is cruelly plundered by Rontzerio, II, 436. Ravaged by the Persians, II, 510. The fleeing inhabitants perish by shipwreck, ibid. Chliara, a fortress toppled by an earthquake, II, 233, 234. Choroboscus. See John. Chosroes Anasuranus, King of Persia, II, 686. Those who join the Greek rite are anointed with chrism, II, 520. Christian religion flourishes among the Mogulenses, II, 767. Chumnus (John) accuses Veccus, I, 376. Chumnus (Nicephorus), the mystic, intimate minister to the ailing Theodore Muzalon, II, 164. Created protovestiarius and prefect of the canicie, II, 193. His daughter is betrothed to Alexius, prince of the Lazi, II, 287. And to the despot John, son of Andronicus, II, 289. Chumnus (Theodore), ambassador to Rontzerio, returns with nothing accomplished, II, 508. Chutluchaimus, as called by Pachymeres, whom the Arabs call Kotlu Sahum, II, 823. Clergy burdened and vexed by the emperor, I, 586, 590. Suspended by the ministers of Joseph, II, 21. While Gregory is being consecrated, those admitted late to the temple are dismissed without the liturgy, II, 16. Frustrated of communion after being given profane bread by fraud, II, 48. Those refusing to sign the Tome of Gregory Cyprius are punished, II, 111. Present in court to accuse Gregory, II, 124. Pardoned by him, II, 133. Vexed by Saba the monk, II, 163. By Andronicus, II, 164. They send to him, II, 643. Cocci, monks, I, 489. Colonea, captured by the despot John, I, 107. Colyba, what they are, I, 574. Comet of the year 1264, I, 647. A. 1664, I, 618. A. 1695, I, 649. Speech of the protovestiarius Muzalon, I, 41. Of Michael Palaeologus, I, 49. Of the same regarding the capture of the city, I, 153. To the people concerning schismatics, I, 273. To the ecclesiastics, I, 457. Conspiracy against the emperor detected and punished, I, 284. Constantinople captured by the Greeks, I, 140. Entered by the emperor, I, 159. Regulated, I, 163. Fortified, I, 186. When captured by the Latins, I, 694. When recovered by the Greeks, I, 722. Constantinopolitan patriarchate, fourth in order, promoted to second by ambition, I, 661. Constantine, called Michael Palaeologus in infancy, I, 301. Constantine, Bishop of the Melangii, I, 102. Constantine Thecus, prince of the Bulgarians, marries Irene, daughter of Emperor Theodore, I, 36. Provoked by her against Emperor Michael, I, 138, 210. Breaks into Roman territory allied with the Tocharoi, I, 231. Restrained, I, 210. After the death of Irene, marries Maria, niece of Emperor Michael, I, 319. Vanquished in battle by Lachan, he is killed, I, 432. Constantine, son of Sultan Melec Azatin, baptized and raised in Constantinople, II, 612. Prevented by Emperor Andronicus from becoming sultan, II, 615. Receives from him the prefecture of Pegae, ibid. Constantine the Great placed the statue of his mother Helena in the Strategio forum, II, 662. Contoskelium restored, I, 365. Contus, i.q., count, I, 181. Coronation of Michael Palaeologus: first, I, 101. Second, I, 103. Corone shaken by an earthquake, II, 593. Corones, an interpreter, sent to the Catelans, II, 564. Cortatzes, leader of the Cretans, holds the hesitation of Philanthropenus in suspicion, II, 221. Betrays Philanthropenus, who had surrendered to him, to the enemy, II, 224. Cosmas, born in Sozopolis, becomes a monk with his brother and son, II, 182. Expelled from the monastery, ibid. Freed, he retires to a solitary island, II, 183. Insinuated to the emperor, ibid. Becomes his confessor and patriarch, ibid., 184. Assumes the name of John, II, 183. Honored with the pastoral staff and the dibambulos, II, 186. Promotes only monks to bishoprics, II, 187. Assents to the emperor against his will, II, 197. Deliberates with him regarding the writings of Athanasius, II, 249. Is greatly grieved that he is not consulted by him regarding the Simonides marriage, II, 279. Angry at the emperor because of his counsel to marry off his daughter to the King of Serbia, II, 281. Refuses to enter the patriarchal house, II, 283. Appeased by the emperor, he resumes the patriarchal office, II, 292. Opposes the restoration of John of Ephesus, II, 299. Retires to a monastery, ibid. Accused by the bishops, II, 300. Voluntarily approaches the emperor and reconciles him to himself, II, 302. Declares that a voice divinely issued ordered him to resume the task of governing the Church, ibid. Opposed by the bishops, II, 337. Hilarion of Selymbria in vain...
A accuses him, B II, 339. He is maligned, II, 539. He resigns from the patriarchate, II, 341. He troubles the emperor who is plotting against him by threatening him with excommunication, II, 375. He lifts the anathema, II, 380. He retreats to Sozopolis, II, 624.
Cosmidion Monastery, I, 475. Arx Giruta C, II, 592. Cotaaitza, a monk, is transferred from the Peribleptos Monastery to the Monastery of the Maximum, II, 66. He flees from there, II, 67. Joined to the Triballi, he harasses the Romans, II, 257. He joins himself to the Kral, ibid., 271. He is delivered up by him to the emperor, II, 285.
Cozylensis, a bishop, consecrates Georgius Cyprius, II, 41. Confessor to Philip, the great lord, ibid.
Kral of Serbia, perfidious, I, 350, 352. Makes incursions into Roman territory, II, 257, 271. Inconstant, II, 272. He has several wives, ibid. Licentious, II, 275. He receives in marriage Simonis, scarcely eight years old, daughter of the Emperor Andronicus, II, 283. He hands over Coanitza to the emperor, ibid. He is received honorably by the emperor, II, 286.
Crete, shaken by an earthquake, II, 595.
Cretans, subjugated by the Latins, cross over to Asia to perform military service, II, 209. Allies to Philanthropenos, II, 210. They suspect his hesitation, II, 221. They betray him, ibid.
Crotone, bishop, honored by the emperor, I, 360.
Cross, a motive for warring against the Franks, I, 363.
Cubuclea, a fortress, besieged by the Persians, II, 580.
Cudumenes, Bishop of Troy, I, 331.
Cula, a fortress, II, 133.
Cursites, an Alan, gives his sister to Cuximpax in marriage, II, 575.
Cutrizaces, instigator of the plan to capture Constantinople, I, 118. He contributes greatly to accomplishing it, I, 129.
Cuximpax, the name signifies prince of the Hieromagi, II, 536. He becomes a Christian, ibid. He arranges a marriage for the daughter of Solympax, ibid. He falls under suspicion of perfidy, II, 346. Sent by Andronicus to appease the Alans, he joins with them, II, 553, 574.
Cydon (Joannicius), Bishop of Thessalonica, formerly prefect of the Sosandrians, I, 126.
King of Cyprus refuses to give his daughter in marriage to Michael, son of Andronicus, unless the Pope approves, II, 205.
Cyprius. See Gregorius.
Cyrillus, his testimony concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, I, 383; II, 30. He calls the Son the "mouth of the Father," ibid.
Cyrillus Tyrius, chosen Patriarch of Antioch from Syria, II, 56. He anticipates Dionysius of Pompeiopolis in taking possession of the see, ibid. He comes to Constantinople to have his election ratified, II, 122. He is assigned lodgings in the Hodegetria Monastery, II, 123.
Cyzicenes, oppressed by the Catalans, II, 399.
Cyzicenus, bishop, Georgius, legate to the Pope, I, 57. Theodorus, severely harassed by the schismatics, II, 53.
D
Dacibyza, a fortress, I, 192; II, 103.
Damascenus, testimony concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, I, 489.
Damascus, razed to the ground, I, 179.
Daniel of Cyzicus criticizes the volume of Gregorius, II, 116. He wants his testimony of sound doctrine to be rejected, II, 128, 129. Reprimanded by the emperor, he is placed in custody, II, 129.
Daphnusia, an island, besieged by the Latins, I, 138. Liberated, I, 145.
David Mepe of Iberia, I, 216.
Debilitation of the empire under Andronicus, whence it arose, II, 208, 515.
Decree on the faith, augmented by Veccus, II, 32.
Demetrias, fortified with towers, II, 71. Assigned by the emperor to Theophanon in place of a dowry, II, 281. After her death, he demands it back before the nuptials, ibid.
Demetrius, son of the Despot Michael, I, 242. After his father dies, he is called Michael, I, 439. He takes as his wife Anna, daughter of the Emperor Michael, ibid.
Deputati, what role they hold in the cavalry, II, 668.
Desposyni, what the dignity is, II, 182.
Despotic dignity, what its insignia are, I, 357.
Diakinesima, what this week is, II, 50, 667.
Dibambulum, what it is, II, 669 sqq.
Dicaeophylax Scutariotes, witness against Joseph, I, 398.
Dicanicium, what it is, II, 675.
Didymium in Miletus, a fortress, now called the fortification of the Two Hills, II, 211.
St. Diomedes Monastery, I, 113.
Dionysius of Pompeiopolis, elected Patriarch of Antioch, is anticipated by his rival Cyrillus, II, 56. D
Drymis plots rebellion against Andronicus, II, 591.
Ducas, the Grand Hetaireiarch, legate to the Amogahars, II, 502.
Dyrrachium, destroyed by an earthquake, I, 355. It is restored and occupied by the Illyrians, I, 508.
E
Ecaterina. See Aecaterina.
Ecclesiarch, employed by the schismatics to ordain Gregorius Cyprius as patriarch, II, 46.
Eclipse of the sun, ambiguously described by Pachymeres, I, 693. Restored to its proper year, I, 700. Its epilogism, I, 704. The year in which it occurred, as recorded by Gregoras, I, 735. Eclipses do not portend adverse events, I, 716.
St. Elias, a fortress besieged by the Turks, surrenders to the Latin Christians, II, 621.
Eltimeres or Eltemeres, Despot of the Chrons, defeats the Romans, II, 266. He returns the blinded Radosthlabus and gives the captured Roman commanders to Osphentisthlabus, II, 267. He inclines toward the side of the emperor, II, 358. For this reason, he is attacked by Osphendisthlabus, II, 562.
Encopia, what they are, I, 263, 333.
Eucone, daughter of Mancus, adopted by Pantoleont, marries Osphentisthlabus, II, 265.
Eonopolites, a great eunuch, drungarius and keeper of the sepulcher of Emperor Michael, offers the monk Athanasius to the Emperor Andronicus, II, 107. He carries the bones of Emperor Michael to Selymbria, ibid.
Ephesian bishop, Nicephorus, made patriarch, I, 117. He dies at Nymphaeum, I, 126. Isaac, arbiter of the emperor’s conscience, I, 41. He arranges for a novella on stauropegiols to be promulgated by the emperor, ibid. sqq. Secretly hostile to Veccus, I, 479 sqq.
Ephesus is plundered by Rontzerius, II, 436. Captured by Sasan, the Persian leader, II, 589. The Temple of St. John there is sacked, ibid.
Ephraimus, son of Patriarch Cosmas, poorly appointed by him to dispense the affairs of the church, II, 300.
Epicombia, what they are, I, 561.
St. Epiphanius, testimonies concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, II, 50.
Bishops suspended for three months because of communion with the Latins, II, 21.
Epseopulus accuses Patriarch Arsenius in a written petition, I, 257.
Euboeans tempt Athanasius of Alexandria, who was staying among them, regarding the Eucharist, II, 593. They threaten him with being burnt alive if he refuses to answer, II, 594.
Eucharistic remains are given to the boys to be consumed, I, 258, 535.
Euchelaeum, what it is, I, 564.
Athanasius, the patriarch, is called an Euchite by the Arsenians, II, 478.
Gospel codex, customarily placed upon the shoulders of bishops while they are being ordained, II, 683.
Exarch of Pisa, wounded by assassins because of the Latins expelled from the monastery, II, 538.
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Faba cornu tactae, what these are called, II, 693. Passages of Plato, Theophrastus, and Plutarch concerning them are explained, ibid.
Torches customarily lighted for the memory of the dead, II, 279.
Libelous pamphlets are circulated secretly, II, 245, 520, 576.
Ferdinand, son of the King of the Balearics, sent to reconcile the Catalans among themselves, works in vain at it, II, 775.
Festivals of the Greeks, accustomed to begin from the previous evening, II, 726, 758.
Feast of the Akathistos, when it is celebrated, I, 257. Its origin, I, 837. Feast of the Hypapante, I, 483.
Fans (Flabella), what kind they are and what their use is at the sacred altar, II, 671.
Fortune, widely believed to favor great leaders, II, 210.
The Great Forum of Constantinople, destroyed by fire, is rebuilt more splendidly, II, 178. The Forum of Constantine was formerly called the Strategion, then the Augustaeum, II, 662.
Frangopulus. See Phrangopulus.
Two Catalan brothers throw themselves from a tower surrounded by fire, II, 533.
Some opine that the title of "brother" was permitted by the emperor to be attributed to the Sultan, II, 216.
Friars (Dominican Brothers), sent to the emperor by the Pope, I, 371. The emperor sends these same messengers back to the Pope, II, 537. Euboeans against Athanasius of Alexandria
A concitantur, II, 591. Those of Jerusalem at Rhodes seek the fortress from the emperor in vain, II, 635. Frederick, King of Sicily, I, 181. Furni fortress, surrendered to the Persians, is recovered by Rontzerius, II, 436. Furnus sanctus (Holy Oven), II, 80.
G Gades, what the name signifies by its origin, II, 692. Galata, citadel besieged by the emperor, I, 122. Conceded to the Genoese, I, 168. Ganelonimen, a place, I, 288. Galenus sent to Arsenius in exile, I, 286. Galesiota Galactio blinded by Emperor Michael, II, 17. The temple is deserted, II, 20. He betrays Andronicus of Sardis, the magister, II, 65. Ganus, a mountain, I, 235. The regions lying below it are occupied, II, 383, 607. Gasmuli, who they are called, I, 309, 550. Gemistus, commentariensis of the church, I, 290. Gennadius, a monk, reproves the Constantinopolitans, II, 21. Gennadius, formerly bishop, refuses the patriarchate, I, 139. He warns the emperor not to despise the clergy, II, 167. Genoese, inferior to the Venetians before, later more powerful, I, 119. Some of them receive the mountains of Phocaea as a gift, I, 420. Some, passing Constantinople against the emperor’s will, are severely punished, ibid. They dissent from the Venetians, II, 232. Forced by them, they desert Galata and migrate to the region around Blachernae, II, 237 sqq. They rampage against the Venetians inhabiting the city, II, 212. They fight poorly against Alexius, prince of the Lazi, II, 449. They set fire to a suburb of Trebizond, ibid. Forced to make peace with Alexius, II, 450. They prepare for war against the Catalans and Sicilians, II, 489. They are tempted by the Catalans to favor them, II, 531. They take vengeance on the Latin monks, II, 536. They are reconciled with Andronicus, who had been angry with them for this reason, II, 535. Conspiring with him, they defeat the Catalans in a naval battle, II, 510. They dissent from Andronicus regarding the price for military aid, II, 514. They persuade the besieged inhabitants of Tenedos to surrender to the emperor, II, 536. They send a fleet to aid the emperor, II, 397. They lend him four triremes to guard the straits of Abydos, II, 600. With the rest of the fleet, they besiege Gallipoli, II, 605. Georgius Acropolita, grand logothete, teaches rhetoric, I, 283. He punishes those who spoke against Patriarch Joseph, I, 633. He attends the trial regarding Beccus, I, 377. As ambassador to Pope Gregory X, he completes the reconciliation of the Churches, I, 381. Georgius Cyprius, aids the emperor in reconciling the Churches, I, 374. V. Gregorius Cyprius. The arrogance of Georgius Nostonges, I, 65. Georgius Pachymeres. V. Pachymeres. Georgius Serbus, ambassador from the kral, deals artfully with the ambassadors of Emperor Michael, I, 532. Georgius Moscbampar, chartophylax, asserts that the testimony of St. John of Damascus is spurious, II, 92. He yields his position, II, 115. He has another name besides, II, 99, 710. Georgius, duke of the Alans, kills Caesar Rontzerius, II, 525. Germa, a place, II, 425. Germanus, bishop of Adrianople, is created patriarch, I, [281]. He is placed in charge of the school, I, 382. He resigns the patriarchate, I, 229. He refuses the emperor’s gifts, I, 301. He is sent as ambassador to Pannonia, I, 318. Also to Pope Gregory X, I, 384. He escapes the danger of shipwreck, I, 396. He completes the peace of the Churches, I, 398. The beginning and end of his patriarchate, I, 730. Germanus, son of Acacius, created bishop of Heraclea to inaugurate Cyprius, II, 45. He breaks away from him, II, [64]. Gidas is sent by Theuderic to settle the discords of the Amogavari, II, 610. The Catalans refuse to submit to him, II, 641. A civil war arising between the Catalans, he is defeated by Romofortus, II, 652. Giligerdon, what it signifies, II, 692. Gilva, insignia of praetorian dignity, II, 517. Glabas, curopalates, receives Mesembria, I, 350. Tarchaniota and grand conostaulus, he is predicted, II, 12. Sent against the kral of Serbia, II, 271. Achieving little in war, he persuades the emperor to make peace with him, II, 272. He is sent as count of the junior Emperor Michael to the Western regions, II, 455. Most skilled in military matters, ibid. He suffers from gout, ibid. Glabatus, among the first, climbs the wall of Constantinople, I, 142. Degrees of kinship, what they are among the Greeks, I, 690. B
Pope Gregory X, created [pope], invites the emperor to reconcile the Churches, I, 369. He sends men to Constantinople to urge that matter, I, 371. Peace being made, he is proclaimed ecumenical patriarch at Constantinople, I, 399. He prohibits King Charles from waging war against the Greeks, I, 409. Gregorius Cyprius attends the synod against Beccus, II, 23. By flattering the emperor’s votes, ibid. Made monk and deacon, II, 44. Finally inaugurated as patriarch, II, 45. He receives the name Gregory, having previously been called George, II, 64. Against his will, he endures the vexations of the prelates, II, 33. He does not permit the Arsenians to attempt to prove the truth of their sect by divine sign, II, 60. He excommunicates the Arsenians, II, 64. He is ordered to write a Tome against the Latins, II, 111. He takes care to have the Tome confirmed by the signatures of the emperor and the prelates, ibid. He refuses to correct the Tome, II, 120. For this reason, some separate themselves from him as from a heretic, ibid. He resigns the patriarchate, II, 121. He migrates to the hospice of St. Paul, II, 122. He eagerly seizes the opportunity, II, 421. He consented to the abdication if a testimony of incorrupt doctrine were given to him, II, 126. This being granted, II, 129, he gives in writing an abdication conceived fraudulently, II, 150. He forgives his adversaries, II, 132. He retreats into the monastery of Aristina, II, 133. He returns into favor with Germanus of Heraclea and Neophytus of Prusa, whom he had deposed, II, 133. He chooses the Raulaena hospice, ibid. Melitas is his alumnus, II, 385. Predictions of the monk Gregory, II, 183, 186. Tower of William, II, 417. William, prince of Achaia, I, 83. He is captured by the Romans, I, 86. William, brother of John, the great lord of Thebes, and son-in-law of John Nothus, I, 328. He succeeds his brother in the lordship of Thebes, I, 413.
H Haemus, a mountain in the dominion of the Bulgarians, I, 210. Hagobanasa, name of the Castle of Oblivion, II, 692. Hales, son of Amurius, after his father died, he is also called Amurius, he kills Melecum, II, 527. He raids Roman regions, II, 563. He seeks from Emperor Andronicus a path to the Sangarius, II, 460. Hayto, King of Armenia, a monk in Constantinople, he feigned, II, 752. He recovers his sight through divine intervention, having been blinded by his brother Sebathus, ibid. Heraclea in Pontus, in what year it was captured by the Persians, I, 749. The inhabitants of Heraclea, their city destroyed, migrate to Selymbria, II, 586. The opinion of Heraclitus illustrated, I, 656. Hermi, a citadel near Magnesia, I, 59. Hesychius, emended, I, 594. Hetaeriarchs, prefects of admissions, I, 321. Hieri, a citadel besieged by the barbarians, II, 412. Those who hold it are compelled to make peace with the Turks, II, 637. St. Jerome, enlightened by Damasus and an equal of St. Basil, teaches the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Son, II, 29. Hilarion, bishop of Selymbria, accuses Cosmas, II, 337. He is accused by him, II, 339. His condemnation is prevented by some, II, 340. Hilarion, a monk, with a gathered band fights successfully against the Persians, the patriarch trying in vain to restrain him, II, 596 sqq. Manuel Holobolus, mutilated in nose and lips, I, 192. He is placed in charge of the ecclesiastical school, I, 281. He is used by Emperor Andronicus to reconcile the Churches, I, 374. He is relegated to Nicaea, I, 392. Summoned from there, he is led through the city in ignominy, I, 394. He attends the synod against Beccus, II, 23. He disputes with him, II, 90. Hoplotheca, a sacred book of great authority among the Greeks, II, 51. Hulacu, called Chalau by Pachymeres, II, 812. Hyacinthus, a monk, intimate with Arsenius, I, 294. Leader of the Arsenians at the assembly of Atramyttium, II, 59. Excommunicated by Patriarch Gregory, he rebels against him, II, 60. He has disagreements, II, 134. Reconciled with them, II, 207. He is thrown into prison by the emperor, ibid. After his death, the Arsenian faction nevertheless flourishes, II, 533. Hyampolis, a citadel surrendered by Eltimeres to Osphentisthlabus, II, 558. Hyperpyron, a coin used by the Greeks, II, 722. Hypoplacian Thebes, a place, II, 58.
INDEX TO PACHYMERES. I
Iberia, region of Mepe David, I, 216. Icarius, prince of Anemopylae, defects from the Latins to the Romans, I, 410. Captures John, the great lord of Thebes, 411. Is placed in command of the fleet, I, 413. His brother is taken prisoner in battle, I, 411. Ignatius (St.), commands the people to obey the bishops, II, 464. Ignatius, bishop, sent to Rome, I, 462. Ignatius, monk of Rhodes, I, 293. Image of the Mother of God weeps, II, 81. Sheds blood of St. George, II, 82. Is cast down in the city of Constantinople by an earthquake, II, 234. Ineense rain, II, 268. Incendiarism in Galata, twofold, under Patriarch Gregory, II, 178. In Constantinople, ibid., 8, 581. Indictions: The Greeks count them from September, II, 798. Insect: A living insect sitting on gold as a cause of deafness, II, 453. Islands of the Princes, occupied and devastated by pirates, II, 324. Iolante, daughter of Theodore Palaeologus, marries Aymon, Count of Savoy, II, 773. Irene, daughter of Emperor Theodore, marries Constantine Tech, I, 56. Irene, widow of Asanes. See Palaeologa, Irene. Irene, daughter of the Marquis of Montferrat, marries the widowed Emperor Andronicus, II, 87. Is crowned, II, 88. Compels the postponement of the marriage of her son John to the daughter of the prefect of the inkstand, II, 287. Finally consents to these, II, 378. Having set out for Thessalonica, ibid., she gathers troops to aid the emperor, II, 537. Isaac, bishop of Smyrna, I, 126. Isaac, bishop of Ephesus, confessor to Emperor Michael, I, 43. Hostile to Patriarch Veccus, I, 479. Manages the promulgation of the novella concerning stauropegiaks, I, 452. Isaacius Melecus, satrap of the Persians, treacherous toward the Catalans, II, 591. Clears himself before them, ibid. Having crossed into Asia, he proceeds to negotiate with the emperor, II, 592, 608. Persuades the Persians to desert the Amogavari, II, 631. Being handed over to the Amogavari, he pays the penalty, II, 633. Ithamar, daughter of the despot Nicephorus, is offered as a bride to Michael, son of Andronicus, II, 200. These nuptials are not admitted by the bishops on account of consanguinity, II, 201. She marries Philip, nephew of the King of Apulia, II, 202. Iznicmid, called Nicomedia by the Arabs, and Iznic, Nicaea, II, 831.
J Jacob, a minister formerly captured by the Romans from Rontzerius, II, 563. An envoy to the Catalans for the sake of peace, II, 564. Jacob, prefect of the monks of Mount Athos, one of the three ejected for the patriarchate, II, 139. January: The month called Lenaeon by the Athenians, II, 699. Jasites, Job, elected by the schismatics to compose the document to be offered to the emperor, I, 380. He is the author of Patriarch Joseph’s open oath that he would never consent to the peace of the Churches, I, 382. He is banished to Chabea, I, 419. Jasites, Melias, led in ignominy through Constantinople, I, 394. Jatropulus, logothete of the domestics, I, 522. Joachimus, patriarch of the Bulgarians, sent as envoy to the emperor, brings back Osphentisthlabus as a hostage to his father, II, 267. Is killed by Osphentisthlabus, II, 265. John Batatza, Emperor, sends Michael Palaeologus into custody, I, 21. Frees him, I, 22. Educates his son Theodore very well, I, 38. Fortifies forts against the Tochari and prepares for war, I, 134. Falling ill, he regains his health through almsgiving, I, 70. Frugal, I, 68. Is called the father of the Romans, I, 69. In his old age takes Anna Sicuba, I, 181. His death and the time of his reign, I, 693. Punishes the negligence of the treasury guards, II, 296. Is believed to have appeared after death, II, 400. Called an almsgiver, II, 401. John, son of Emperor Theodore, succeeds his father as a mere boy, a ward under the guardianship of Muzalon, I, 39. The nobles plot against him, ibid. He is defended by his guardian, ibid. Upon the murder of Muzalon, there is a dispute over his guardianship, I, 64. He declares Michael Palaeologus his guardian, I, 66, and admits him as colleague in the empire, I, 81, 96. Is frustrated of his coronation, I, 101, 173. Deprived of his guardian, I, 127. Blinding, I, 191. Is shut up in the fortress of Dacibyza, I, 191. Escaping, he flees to the Persians, I, 193, 206. John Chrobuscus, otherwise Matzucatus, is thrown into prison, II, 442. Having escaped from there, he fights successfully against the Persians, ibid. Various stories concerning his end, II, 443. John (St.) Damascene: His body is granted to the Arsenians for the testing of their doctrine, II, 40. His testimony concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, II, 31, 110. Explained by the schismatics, ibid. John Glycys, minister of petitions, I, 168. Is sent as envoy to Cyprus and Armenia, II, 205. John Ephesinus, absent, is enrolled among the accusers of the tome of Gregory, II, 116. Upon his arrival, he increases the disturbances, II, 117, 128. Is committed to custody by the emperor, II, 129. His liberation is hindered by Patriarch Cosmas, II, 298. John, prince of the Lazi, dies, II, 270. John, the great lord of Thebes, sends aid to John Nothus, I, 328. Is conquered and captured by Icarius, I, 411. Being liberated, he dies in his homeland, I, 414. John, the illegitimate son of the despot Michael, betrays the lord of Achaia to the Romans, I, 84. Presides over Megaloblachia, I, 83. Makes incursions into Roman territory, I, 307. Is created sebastocrator, I, 322. Captured, he escapes secretly, I, 326. Liberates the besieged city of Patras, I, 328. John Parastron, envoy from the Pope to the emperor to reconcile the Churches, I, 371; II, 22. John Tarchaniota. See Tarchaniota. John, a certain man honored by John Ducas, II, 346. John Veccus. See Veccus. Joannicius Cydon. See Cydon. Joannicius Ternicopulus. See Ternicopulus. Josephite, i.e., the party of Joseph, excommunicated by the Arsenians, II, 39 sqq. They agree with them in the adjudication of controversies through fire, II, 61. Joseph, having a wife, is enrolled among the domestic clergy of Empress Irene, I, 304. Monk and confessor to the emperor, I, 256. Dissuades the emperor from accepting absolution from Germanus, I, 290. Is elected patriarch, I, 504. His character and genius, ibid. He absolves the emperor from excommunication, I, 306. Endeavors to suppress a faction formed against him, I, 31 sqq. Sets out for the Orient to reconcile the monks to himself, I, 338. Endeavors to hinder the peace of the Churches, I, 399. Is succeeded by his predecessor, I, 413. Is banished to Chela, I, 419. Makes satisfaction to the offended emperor, I, 506. In his decrepit age, he consents to his own restoration to the throne, II, 16. Is carried almost lifeless to the patriarchal palace, II, 19. His ministers act according to their own whim, II, 30. He dies, II, 38. Jews, accustomed to be employed for the executioner’s ministry, II, 229. Justinianean bridge over the Sangarius, II, 330.
K Kanis of the Tochari, Cazanes, II, 456. This word is different from Chane, II, 689. Kublai, emperor of the Mongols, II, 814.
L Laceras, the first to scale the walls of Constantinople, I, 429. Lachanas, from a swineherd, becomes leader of the army, I, 430. Kills Constantine, King of Bulgaria, who had been conquered, I, 452. Maria, his widow, is taken in marriage and crowned Queen of Bulgaria, I, 441. Cruel toward captives, I, 445. The Bulgarians rebel against him and hand over his wife to the Romans, I, 446. He besieges Ternobum, I, 466. Conquers the Romans twice, ibid. Suppliant, he is butchered by Noga, ibid. A pseudo-Lachanas, his fraud being detected, is thrown into prison, II, 188, 192. Laminus, leader of the Persians, infests the regions adjacent to Constantinople in war, II, 316. Loop: Strangling the guilty is not the custom of the Italians, but of the Greeks, II, 425. Lardea, a fortress fortified by Osphentisthlabus, II, 558. Latins are driven from Constantinople, I, 144. Are conquered by the Romans in a naval battle, I, 331. Admitted to communion after the peace of the Churches was made, I, 399. Their slaughter at Bellagrada, I, 515. Laura, a place, I, 414. Lazarus Gorionites, blinded, attends the conventicle of Atramyttium, II, 59. Is summoned by Emperor Andronicus for a nocturnal colloquy, II, 351. Legates of Emperor Michael to the Pope, I, 168, 209, 381, 505. To the Tochari and Ethiopians, I, 174. To the king of Pannonia, I, 317. To the kral of Serbia, I, 351. To the king of France, I, 381.
Returning to the Pope with the matter unfinished, II, 243. Envoys of foreign nations accustomed to being received by the emperors in the atrium, II, 665. Laws of the Tochari and their legislator, I, 315. Lemnos plundered by Roger, II, 436. Leo, prefect of the orphanotropheion, envoy to the Venetians, II, 243. Pope Leo III does not admit the addition to the Creed, I, 667. Leovitius, marked for vanity for predicting the future from eclipses, I, 719. Libadarius, protovestiary and prefect of Sardis, anxious because of the rebellion of Philanthropenos, II, 220. He negotiates with the Cretans concerning his betrayal, II, 223. He leads an expedition against him, II, 226. Having betrayed him, he captures him, ibid. He hands him over to the Jews for blinding, II, 229. For this well-accomplished deed, he is honored with offices, II, 251. Logariastes, what kind of office it is, II, 700. Lucas, bishop of Bizye, II, 377. Lucas, provost of the monastery of Pantepoptes, II, 185. Louis (St.), called Redefrans by the Arabs, II, 811. Louis Cellotius defended, I, 615. Lunar eclipse seen in the year of Christ 1502, II, 791.
M Macarius Columba, accused of treason, pays the penalty, II, 334. Macarius, bishop of Pisidia, I, 267. Macarius of Achrida blesses the marriage of the kral with Simonis, II, 283. Machrama, killed by order of Roger, II, 437. Macronus, cubiculary, blinded, I, 207. Madytus, the fortress, captured by outriders (Amogabares), II, 578, 602. Macedonians subject to the Romans, I, 220. Harassed by the Persians, I, 311. Magnesia on the Hermus chosen for the custody of Prince John, I, 39. Public money kept there, I, 71. Occupied by Attaliates, II, 428. Magnesians rebelling against Roger, II, 439. Besieged by him for a long time, II, 440. Finally liberated, II, 480. Magnus, the lord, prince of Thebes, I, 328, 653. Majus de Belicurio takes the daughter of Emperor Theodore to wife, I, 180. Manda, i.e., Mercurius, domestic of the church, sent to Apulia, I, 473. Manfred, king of Apulia, son-in-law of the despot Michael Angelos, I, 82. He sends aid to his father-in-law, I, 83, 89. Defecting from the Pope, he is defeated by his brother Charles, I, 185. Despoiled of his kingdom, I, 317. Mantachias the Persian captures Tralles, I, 472. Manuel the Genoese, lord of Phocaea, I, 420. Manuel, patriarch, intercedes with Emperor John on behalf of Michael Palaiologos, I, 22. He consents to obedience to the Pope, I, 374. Manuel, bishop of Thessalonica, does not consent to the coronation of Palaiologos alone, excluding the boy John, I, 102. Nicolaus Manuelites, prefect of Nicaea, I, 216. Marcus, monk of Hiera, I, 290. Marcus, monk, edits a commentary, II, 117. Maria, daughter of the king of Armenia, destined as a spouse for Michael, son of Andronikos, II, 205. Falling ill on the journey, she is taken to Rhodes, ibid. Having abjured her ancestral rite, she is anointed, II, 206. Maria Eulogia, daughter of Palaiologos, see Maria Palaiologina. Maritza river, II, 562. Marmaritziensis, although a simoniac, is nevertheless declared by the Arsenians to be an undoubtedly ordained bishop, II, 556, 761. Marmutzas, called Patriarch Germanos, I, 282. Marpu, a voice sent from heaven, I, 27. Pope Martin IV excommunicates Emperor Michael, I, 505. Martius, Mensis, usually called Cronius by Pachymeres, once Boedromion, II, 665. Marules, a grand archon, with difficulty restrains the soldiers from avenging the injuries done by the Catalans, II, 417. He puts the Persians to flight, ibid. He concedes the spoils to the Catalans, II, 418. He is sent to summon Roger and his mother-in-law, I, 505. Created grand dux, he is deceived by Romofortos, II, 587. Ordered to recover the fortress of Thasos, II, 638. To liberate the besieged fortress of Ainos, ibid. Maryandeni harassed by the Persians, I, 221. Artisans of funeral dirges, I, 653. Maurozonas, suspected of an indecent relationship with a matronly princess, is punished, II, 156. The words of St. Maximus the Confessor concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit are rejected as spurious, II, 109. Maximus Planudes, envoy sent to the Venetians, II, 243. Megaloblachitae subject to the despot John, I, 83. An illustrious title of megistans granted to the grand logothete, II, 59. Melas river, II, 331. Melec, the fortress, liberated from the siege of the Persians, II, 627. Melec, the sultan, held by the emperor, I, 131. Melec, son of Sultan Azatinis, conciliates the Khan of the Tochari to himself, II, 327. He subjects the satraps of the Persians to himself, II, 328. He sets out for Constantinople to him, leaving his daughter as a hostage, ibid. Son of Amurius, he is killed, II, 329. Meletius, to be punished, is sent to Rome, I, 462. Meletius, surnamed the Saint, deprived of his tongue, cooperates in the restoration of Joseph, II, 17. Melius Iasites, dishonorably led through the city, I, 591. Meliteniotes, archdeacon, aids in the reconciliation of the churches, I, 374. Perpetually deprived of his dignity, II, 21. Dying in prison as a fellow-prisoner of Veccos, he is joined to Metochites, II, 271. To Melotinos, kral of Serbia, is betrothed Anna, daughter of Emperor Michael, I, 350, 683. Menas, monk, announces to Emperor Andronikos the prophecy of Athanasios, the former patriarch, II, 359, 472. Mepe of Iberia takes the illegitimate daughter of the despot John to wife, I, 216. Mesazon, the name of a magistracy, I, 352. Mesembria, surrendered to Emperor Andronikos, I, 550. Occupied by Osphentisthlabos, II, 601. Mesites, i.e., primicerios of the notaries, I, 257. Mesothinia, the name of a legion or cohort, I, 310, 581. Methodius, brother of Patriarch Cosmas, sent to the emperor, II, 230. Methone, I, 597. Port opposite, of Coron, I, 676. Shaken by an earthquake, II, 393. Metochites, archdeacon, deprived of his dignity, II, 21. Theodore Metochites, logothete of the drome, envoy to Cyprus and Armenia, II, 203. Michael the despot covets the empire, I, 81. He defeats the Romans, I, 89. Inclines toward peace, I, 107. Makes a treaty with the despot John, I, 215. Michael, previously called Demetrios, becomes the emperor's son-in-law and a despot, I, 212, 459. Takes the daughter of Terteras, II, 304. Compelled by illness to withdraw from the expedition of Emperor Michael, II, 315. Perpetually consigned to prison, II, 407. Michael, son of Constantine, king of Bulgaria, tries in vain to recover his paternal kingdom, II, 265. Michael, son of the sebastokrator John, captured by the fraud of the despot Nicephorus, II, 72. Sold to the emperor, ibid. Consigned to prison, ibid. Tries to escape in vain, II, 75. While attempting to set fire to the prison, he is killed, II, 76. The same was also called Comnenus, II, 201. Greek bishops are honored by the Roman pontiff, I, 397. Mitylene plundered by Roger, II, 436. Mocessi, bishop, sent to the exiled Arsenius, I, 286. Monks inciting rebellion against Philanthropenos are blinded, II, 229. Ordered by Athanasios to fast for a whole year, II, 618. Monasteries destroyed are restored by Emperor Michael, I, 161. Monastery of Acatonius, I, 27. Agalmatos, I, 112. St. Andrew in Crisi, II, 85, 133. Aristiana, ibid. Archistrategos, II, 182. St. Basil, II, 38. Christ the Benefactor, I, 365. Cosmidion, I, 475. God who is, I, 342. St. Diomedes, I, 113. Foulis, I, 141. Galesius, I, 291. Hiera, I, 290. Hodegon, II, 402. Laura, II, 203. St. Lazarus, II, 17, 258. Lips, II, 596. Michael the Archangel, I, 449. Mosele, II, 158, 353, 595. Black Mountain, I, 280. Oxen, I, 270. Pammakaristos, I, 284. Pantepoptes, I, 315. Pantokrator, I, 275. Peribleptos, II, 596. The Forerunner, I, 195. The Savior, I, 120, 123. Sanidum, II, 214. Sosandrorum, I, 126. Theotokos, I, 124. Xeropotamos, I, 126. Monembasia subject to the Romans, I, 203. The inhabitants of Monembasia are forbidden by Emperor Andronikos from avenging Mpyrigerius (Berengarius), II, 504. Gold coin not always at the same value, II, 495. Monoconstantinus, bishop of Neocaesarea, sent to Arsenius, I, 286. Grain monopolies afflict the populace, II, 461. Cannot be removed by the patriarch, ibid. The inhabitants of the mountains, rebelling against Emperor Michael, are attacked because of the blinded John, I, 193. Morea, i.e., the Peloponnese, called Morcum, I, 180, 386. Moschamparas, see Georgius. Mosynes harassed by the Persians, I, 311, 586. Mpyrigerius, called Tentza by his own people, Mpyrigerius the Latin of the Lati, arrives with the fleet at Madytos, II, 481. Commended to Emperor Andronikos by Roger, II, 483, 492. Summoned by the emperor, II, 496. Highly honored, ibid.
A His bride is created Grand Duke by the emperor's order, II, 499. Offended by his generosity toward the Catalans, II, 505. Returns to Gallipoli, ibid. Besieged by him through treachery, he obtains a truce, II, 528. As leader of the Amogavarian fleet, he tries in vain to win over the Genoese to his side, II, 535. Scarcely joined in battle, he surrenders himself, II, 541. Taken to Genoa, II, 578. Escapes to the Catalans who were attacking Andronikos, II, 640. He is killed in a civil battle arising at Kassandreia, II, 652. Mugulii, i.q. Tochari, I, 344. Mute and deaf man suddenly healed, II, 401, 452. Muzalo, the *hetairiarches*, defeated by Atmanes, retreats to Nicomedia, II, 533. Muzalo (Andronikos), Grand Domestic, marries Cloista, daughter of Raoul, I, 24. Is killed, I, 60. Muzalo (Georgios), *protovestiarios*, marries Theodora Kantakouzene, I, 23. Appointed tutor to the young Ioannes, I, 59. Assassinated by the seditious, I, 60. Muzalo (Stephanos), Grand Drungary, sent to reconcile the Catalans and Genoese, dies, II, 398. Muzalo (Theodoros), Grand Logothete, I, 495. Punished by the order of Emperor Michael for his obstinacy in the schism, he repents, I, 496. He advises Emperor Andronikos to restore the schism, II, 15. He offers to burn the book in which he assents to the peace of the Churches, II, 26. He is greatly honored, II, 59. He favors the Arsenians, ibid.; attends the colloquy with Veccus, II, 90. He rejects the commentary of Mark the monk, II, 137. He marries his daughter to Konstantinos, son of the emperor, II, 180. Dying, he seeks pardon from the clergy he had wronged, I, 192. He dies having taken the monastic habit, ibid. He is buried at Nicaea in the Tornikios monastery, II, 193. Mytzes surrenders Mesembria to Emperor Michael, I, 350. His son Ioannes marries the emperor’s daughter and becomes King of Bulgaria, ibid., 435, 438. Myzaces plots a rebellion against Emperor Andronikos, II, 593. Nostongos (Gregorios), his arrogance, I, 65. B Nostongos Doukas, from *primicerios* of the court is created Grand Hetairiarch, II, 428. He is excluded from Magnesia by the Attaleiates, II, 429. He is treated imperiously by Rontzerios, ibid. He withdraws to Constantinople, ibid. By accusing Rontzerios, he irritates the emperor, II, 430. Stripped of his dignities, he is put into custody, II, 433. His scribe is treated ignominiously, ibid. Nostongonissa, a nun, is addicted to the Arsenian faction, I, 292. Novella of Emperor Andronikos concerning ordinations, II, 200. Oktay, second Emperor of the Mongols, II, 807. Oinaiotes, the *lampadarios*, sent to his friend Arsenios, I, 290. Omen taken from the Gospel, II, 146. Regarding the name Arsenios, II, 147. Opicius Spinola, Duke of the Ghibellines, II, 598, 773. Palaiologos (Michael) is appointed prefect over the notables, I, 21. Orestias besieged by the Amogavarians, II, 603. Oreum captured by the Romans, I, 205. Orthodoxy, Sunday of, II, 32, 281. Ortogrules, father of Othman; the year in which he died, II, 829. The Greeks are accustomed to greet one another with a kiss on the day of Pascha, II, 49. Osphentisthlabus, son of Terter, a hostage among the Romans, II, 265. He affects the kingdom of Bulgaria, ibid. He kills Tzacames, his brother-in-law, through deception, ibid. He kills Patriarch Joachim, ibid. He becomes King of the Bulgarians, ibid. He does not restore his father Terter, who had been redeemed from the Romans, to the kingdom, II, 267. He takes up arms against the Romans, II, 406. He fortifies the fortresses received from Eltimer, II, 558. He occupies Anchialos and Mesembria, II, 601. He treats with the Agathopolitans concerning surrender, ibid. He sends auxiliary forces to the Alans, ibid. He makes a treaty with the Catalans, II, 628. Othman’s lineage according to the records of the Arabs, II, 826. Oxea island, I, 270.
N Nastratius, brother of Amurius Halis, a long-time hostage among the Romans, II, 327. Naval power of the Romans ruined by negligence, II, 69. Neadis Specula, a place occupied by the Alans, II, 575. Negligence of the treasury guards punished by Emperor Ioannes, II, 296. Neophytos the monk, companion of Athanasios of Alexandria, sent as legate into Armenia, II, 204. Nicaea disturbed by a false report, I, 244. Besieged, II, 412. Nikander of Latissa, removed from his post, takes vengeance through the efforts of Chalaza, II, 66. Nikephoros, Bishop of Ephesus, made patriarch, I, 117. Dies at Nymphaion, I, 126. Nikephoros, son of the Despot Michael, captures Strategopoulos, I, 89. Marries Anna, daughter of Eulogia, I, 243. Nikephoros, Bishop of Crete, flees to Constantinople, II, 241. Is sent by the emperor to the Venetians, ibid. From the synod to Ioannes Kosmas, II, 319. He incurs the emperor’s wrath, II, 377. Niketas Herakleotes sent by the synod to Arsenios, I, 13. Niketas of Thessalonica is promoted to the throne of Dyrrhachium, I, 126. He leaves Dyrrhachium destroyed by an earthquake, I, 357. He rebukes Theoleptos of Philadelphia, II, 248. Niketas of Maronia, from *chartophylax* becoming Bishop of Thessalonica, teaches the procession of the Holy Spirit, II, 28. Nicolaus II, Pope, misremembered by Pachymeres, called Urban, I, 461, 763. Nicolaus of Alexandria rejects the deposition of Patriarch Arsenios, I, 27. Nicolaus the monk, made Bishop of Prusa, II, 88. He disapproves of communion with the Romans, ibid. Because of this, he is rebuked by Veccus, ibid. He is defrocked by Patriarch Gregorios Kyprios, II, 133. Nikomedes, epigram of, II, 661. Nicomedia besieged, II, 412. Niger Mons, I, 280. Nilus the pseudo-monk, a Siculan with perverse doctrine, I, 218. Nogas, Duke of the Tocharians, establishes a kingdom for himself, I, 344. Is defeated by the emperor, ibid. He kills the suppliant Lachanas, I, 466. Sends auxiliaries to the emperor, I, 525. Defeated, he is killed by Tuetai, II, 263.
P Pachomios’ field, I, 488, 532. Pachomios (Georgios), suspected by the emperor, is blinded, I, 187. Pachymeres (Georgios), where he was born and educated, I, 11. *Protecdikos* and *dikaiophylax*, ibid. With what trustworthiness he wrote history, ibid. Is sent as legate to the ex-patriarch Arsenios, I, 285. He is in danger at Galenolimen, I, 288. He assists Iasites in composing a document for the schismatics, I, 380. He signs the abdication of Patriarch Veccus, I, 455. He is sent to Patriarch Gregorios, II, 120. He promises to continue this history, II, 650. Palaiologoi: Andronikos, son of Emperor Michael, I, 159. He marries Anna, daughter of the King of Pannonia, I, 318. He is crowned emperor with his wife, ibid. His expedition into the Orient, I, 468. He calls the restored Tralles "Andronicopolis," I, 459. He ensures that the Eucharist is administered to his dying father, I, 530. He begins to rule alone, II, 11. He is discouraged in spirit by the authority of the Church, II, 12. He is the first to subscribe to royal letters with the month added, II, 15. He has a handwriting in writing similar to his father’s, ibid. He rejects his own consent to the peace of the Churches, II, 14. He restores Joseph to the throne, II, 16. He forbids the dead father to be honored with a funeral chant, II, 36, 121. He stands between the Josephites and the Arsenians, II, 42. He elevates Georgios Kyprios to the patriarchate, II, 43. He makes peace with Terter, II, 57. He grants the title of Despot of Romania to Asanes, ibid. He convenes a meeting to pacify the factions, ibid. He agrees with the Arsenians that their controversies should be decided by divine sign, ibid. He involves those who withdraw from the agreements in a difficult problem, II, 63. He takes the flight of Kotanitzas badly, II, 67. He ensures that Michael, son of Ioannes, be betrayed to him, ibid. He sends Tarchaniotes with troops to Demetrias, II, 68. He neglects naval matters, II, 71. He keeps Michael captive in prison, II, 72. He tries again in vain to reconcile the Arsenians, II, 81. He takes as a second wife Irene, daughter of the Marquis of Montferrat, II, 87. He is present at the dispute between Veccus and the patriarch, II, 89. He tries, though in vain, to persuade the patriarch to renounce the empire, II, 103. He harasses the Vlachs whom he suspects, II, 116. He ensures that Patriarch Gregorios is persuaded to abdicate, II, 121.
A reconciliation of the Arsenites, II, 134. He throws John Tarchaniotes, having been vexed in various ways, finally into prison as if he were oppressing the empire, II, 135. He betakes himself to Nymphaeum, II, 153. Striving to raise Michael the Younger to the empire, he suffers a repulse from the clergy, II, 197. He issues a novella concerning ordinations, II, 199. His facility is ruinous to the state, II, 208. He employs Cretan militia, II, 209. He exhausts his subjects with tributes, ibid. He strives to appease the rebel Philanthropenos, II, 229. After that rebellion is suppressed, he venerates the Mother of God, II, 230. He restores judicial proceedings, II, 236. He sends envoys to the Venetians, II, 243. He clears himself of charges in a speech to the people, II, 245. He does not hesitate to call the Sultan by the title of brother, nor does he bear to call the Roman pontiff father, II, 246. He is perturbed on account of the anathema hurled at him by Athanasius, II, [230?]. He places John Tarchaniotes in charge of the East, II, 258. He opposes Osphentisthlabos, who was aspiring to the kingdom of Bulgaria, II, 263. He offers his own daughter to the Kral of Serbia, Eudocia being his sister and refusing, in marriage, II, 272. Having set out for Thessalonica, II, 278. He eludes the patriarch, II, 281. He entreats Cosmas to resume the patriarchate, II, 292. He strives to restore John of Ephesus to his position, II, 298. Estranged from Cosmas, II, 292. Reconciled to him, II, 307. Attacked by the Venetians, II, 322. He enters into peace with them, II, 326. He uses the services of Cuximpax to restrain the Persians, II, 345. He inclines himself toward the Arsenites, II, 353. Being diligent in restoring Athanasius to the throne, he strives to reconcile the bishops to him, II, 365. He is constrained by the threats of excommunication from John and Cosmas, II, 376. He restores the patriarchate to Athanasius, II, 382. Anna misappropriates stipends, II, 390. He admits Rontzerios, offering his services against the Persians, II, 395. He confers great honors upon him, ibid. He strives to oppose Eltimeres to Osphentisthlabos, II, 406. He bestows the goods of the Despot Michael upon his son Michael, II, 408. He sends his son against Osphentisthlabos, II, 407. He delivers a speech to reconcile the Arsenites, II, 461. His insolence toward his father, mother, and former wife, II, 465. He reprimands Rontzerios and the Catalans, II, 486. He neglects the indictment brought against them, II, 489. He adulterates the public currency, ibid. He summons and splendidly receives Mpyrigerios, II, 496. He is compelled to offer the highest dignities to Rontzerios, II, 503. He attempts to terrify the Catalans with an assembly, II, 514. He creates the son of his brother Constantine a *panhypersebastos*, II, 516. He mollifies Rontzerios, II, 517. He loses the alliance of the Genoese, II, 544. He chastises the rioting populace in an assembly, II, 546. He connives at the harshness of Patriarch Athanasius toward the clergy, II, 559. He invites the Catalans to peace in vain, II, 564. He aids the endangered fortresses of the East, II, 588. He sends envoys to the Carmpantanos, ibid. To the Genoese, II, 591. He protects the monk Hilarion, II, 596. He is too indulgent toward Athanasius, the Constantinopolitan, II, 615. He seeks to be reconciled to the Catalans, B having attempted through them, II, 624. He puts off Osphentisthlabos, who is seeking an affinity with him, II, 628. He saves Bizya, II, 630. He aids the Rhodians against the Friars of Jerusalem, II, 635. He sends Maralem to recover some localities, II, 638. He attempts to win Gidam and Tzimen to his side, II, 641. When he was born and when he died, II, [776].
Andronicus takes the widow of Andronicus Muzalon, I, 109. Andronicus the Protostrator dies in prison and is honored with an annual commemoration, II, 207. Anna, daughter of the Emperor Michael, C betrothed to the son of the Kral of Serbia; why she did not marry, I, 380. She marries the Despot Michael the Younger, I, 440. Anna, daughter of Eulogia Palaeologina; see Anna.
Constantine, brother of the Emperor Michael, created *sebastocrator* and Caesar, I, 108.
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, son of the Emperor Michael, returns after the capture of ...tanitza, I, 497. He strives to save him, I, 498. When his brother Andronicus is raised to the kingdom, he lays aside his purple robes, I, 499. He favors the monk Athanasius, II, 108. Sent beforehand to the East, II, 133. He constructs a tower at Nymphaeum, II, 226. He treats Maurozoma harshly, II, 136. Suspected by the Emperor Andronicus, ibid. His wealth, II, 157. He incurs the hatred of his brother Andronicus, I, 159. He is cast into prison, II, 160. He is carried to Constantinople, II, 164. He is led to Thessalonica, II, 279. Being sick, he entrusts himself to Patriarch Athanasius, II, 421. His son is created *panhypersebastos*, II, 516.
Constantine, Despot, son of the Emperor Andronicus by Anna of Hungary, II, 87. He marries the daughter of the Protovestiarius Muzalon, II, 181. Helena, daughter of Michael, wife of Manfred, King of Apulia, I, 83. Eudocia, daughter of the Emperor Michael, marries the Prince of the Lazi, I, 272. Refuses to marry, II, 273. She feigns to approve of her son's marriage with the daughter of Chumnus, II, 287. Having set out to the Lazi to reconcile this, she does the opposite, II, 289. Eudocia sends to Pulcheria an icon of the Mother of God painted D by St. Luke, I, 160. Eulogia, sister of the Emperor Michael, very dear to him, I, 127. She persuades him to place the boy John in holy orders, I, 128. She favors the schismatics intensely, I, 379. Euphrosyne, illegitimate daughter of the Emperor Michael, marries Noga, Prince of the Tocharoi, I, 314. She saves Asanes, I, 467. She receives Eucon, son of Mancusus, from the sacred font, II, 267.
John, brother of the Emperor Michael, is adorned with the dignity of Great Domestic, I, 81. Sent into the western regions with an army, he manages affairs well, I, 106. He becomes *sebastocrator*, I, 107; Caesar and Despot, I, 108. He is sent against the Despot Michael, I, 205. He conquers him, I, 214. He leads into the East, I, 215. His virtues, I, 216. He guards the empire, I, 510. Suspected by those reigning, I, 320. He defeats John the Bastard, I, 324. He is conquered by him, I, 328. He aids the fleet against the Latins, I, 332.
John, son of the Emperor Andronicus, is created Despot, II, 197. He marries the daughter of Chumai, II, 478. He receives the house of Michael Angelus as a gift, II, 409. Prefect of the city, II, 408. He becomes Marquis of Montferrat, II, 598.
Irene, daughter of the Emperor Michael, marries Asanes, I, 440. She is eagerly received at Ternovo, 448. From there she flees, I, 448. When her husband is dead, she is sent to her son-in-law at Cyzicus, II, 421. She strives to defend him when accused, II, 431. She does not obey the emperor inviting her to Constantinople, II, 505. Accused of treason, she is kept under guard, II, 631.
Irene, illegitimate daughter of the Emperor Andronicus, marries John, Duke of the Pelasgians, II, 754.
Maria, daughter of Eulogia, marries Alexius Philanthropenos, I, 108. As a widow, she marries the King of Bulgaria, Constantine, I, 312. She engages her husband against the emperor, I, 344. She favors the schism, I, 427. She solicits Patriarch Elias and the Sultan of Palestine against the emperor, I, 428. She kills her adopted son Sphentisthlabos, I, 430. She marries Lachanas, and is again crowned Queen of Bulgaria, I, 443. Devoted to the emperor, she is committed to custody, I, 447.
Maria, illegitimate daughter of the Emperor Michael, betrothed to Chalau, I, 174. Finding him dead, she marries his son, ibid.
Maria, sister of the Emperor Andronicus, betrothed to Carmpantanos, II, 281. Martha, sister of Michael, is tortured for being guilty of sorcery, I, 33.
Michael is cast into prison by the Emperor Theodore, I, 23. Michael, Great Conostaulus, I, 21. Suspected by the Emperor Theodore, he is cast into prison, ibid. Liberated, I, 22. Adorned with the highest honors, I, 23. He flees to the Persians, I, 25. Reconciled to the emperor, he is sent as leader to Epidamnus, ibid. He receives a portent of empire, I, 27. Bound, he is brought back by Chadene, I, 29. He becomes tutor to Prince John, I, 66. Great Duke, I, 68. He reconciles the people to himself with bribes, I, 71. The clergy, I, 72. He obtains the title of Despot, I, 74. He is declared colleague of the empire, I, 81, 96. He is released from his former oaths, I, 95. He fortifies fortresses in the borderlands, I, 99. He is crowned alone, I, 106. He honors the nobles, I, 107, 108. He captures Selybria, I, 120. He dismisses [officials], I, 127. His assembly after the capture of Constantinople, I, 153. He restores Arsenius to the patriarchate, I, 172. He is crowned again, I, 173. He enters into a treaty with the Tocharoi and Aethiopians, I, 174. He settles the sisters of Prince John with husbands, I, 180. He restores the walls of Constantinople, I, 186. He blinds his colleague, the boy, I, 191. On account of this, he is excommunicated by the patriarch, I, 203. He defeats the Bulgarians, I, 210. He is gravely endangered by the traps of the Sultan Azatinus, I, 231. He accuses the patriarch, I, 257. He damns and deposes him, I, 268; he relegates him to the island of Oxea, I, 270. His assembly against the Arsenites, I, 273. He promotes Germanus to the patriarchate, I, 278. He forces him secretly to abdicate, 296. He condemns Barlaam, having been blinded, to perpetual imprisonment, I, 302. He takes care that Joseph is created patriarch, I, 304. By him he is released from the anathema, I, 306. He takes his son Andronicus as colleague of the empire, I, 318. He composes a treaty with the King of the Bulgarians, I, 342. He reconciles Noga, Prince of the Tocharoi, to himself by affinity, I, 344. He receives Mesembria, I, 350. He attempts in vain the affinity of the Kral of Serbia, I, 350. He sends envoys to the King of the Franks, I, 361. He prepares against Charles, I, 364. He applies his mind to reconciling the Churches, I, 369. He draws Veccus to his own side, I, 380. He urges the clergy in various ways to admit peace, I, 386. With legates sent to Rome, he finishes the matter, I, 395. He takes care that Pope Gregory is proclaimed, I, 399. He makes Veccus patriarch, I, 412. He depresses [the clergy], I, 419. He makes Asanes King of Bulgaria, I, 440. He promulgates a novella concerning stauropegiac monasteries, I, 452. He restores the deposed Veccus to the patriarchate, I, 455. Bishops
A send some to Rome for punishment, I, 462. He undertakes an expedition to the Sangarius, I, 502. He bears with difficulty his excommunication by Pope Martin, I, 505. He leads captured Latins in triumph through the city, I, 515. He makes the Prince of the Lazi his son-in-law, I, 520. He summons the Tocharoi against John the sebastokrator, I, 524. He is imperiled at sea, I, 527. He dies, I, 528.
Michael, son of Emperor Andronicus, is adorned with infant imperial insignia, II, 87. He is crowned emperor, II, 195. He takes Maria of Armenia as his wife, II, 205. He sets out with his father to Thessalonica, II, 279. He returns, II, 290. Sent to the East, he performs poorly, II, 310. He flees to Pergamon, II, 318. He crosses the Pegas, II, 391. Falling ill there, he is healed by the Mother of God, ibid. He returns to Constantinople, II, 405. He moves against Osphentisthlabus, II, 447. He resists Osphentisthlabus and Eltimerus, II, 481. He receives Konizerius with splendor, II, 523. He is defeated by the Catalans, II, 549. He is forced to keep himself within the fortress of Didymotichos, II, 562. His rashness is restrained by his father, II, 608.
Theodora (or Theodosia), daughter of Martha Palaiologina and Tarchaniotes, is betrothed to Balanidiotes; she refuses to marry the knight, I, 33. Her husband Balanidiotes having died, she becomes a nun and favors the Arsenites, I, 296. Theodora, widow of Emperor Michael, asks the patriarchs what she must do for the sake of her deceased husband's soul, II, 16. It is demanded of her that she not ask for his funeral rites to be settled, II, 55. She is forced to renounce the union of the churches, II, 121. Her diploma, by which she rescinds the acts of Michael Palaiologos for the union of the churches, II, 731. She becomes the daughter of Theodorus; she seeks the title of despotes in vain, II, 181. She complains about the custody of her son Constantine, II, 188. Having died, she is buried with splendor, II, 377.
Theodorus, despotes, son of Emperor Andronicus by Irene, II, 598. Theodorus, brother of Emperor Andronicus, never obtains the title of despotes, II, 181. He rejects the dignity of sebastokrator, II, 182. They are adorned with yellow (gilvis) insignia of the Panhypersebastos, II, 517. The Bishop of Panios, believed to be furthering the efforts of Romofortus, approaches the emperor of his own accord, II, 623. The King of Pannonia takes a certain captive as his wife, I, 318. The monks of Pantepoptes, hostile to Patriarch Joseph, I, 515. Pantoleon the merchant places his adopted daughter with Osphentisthlabus, II, 265. Papias, of what dignity the name might be, I, 588. The custody of the city of Papyla is entrusted with great anxiety, II, 13. Parasceve, the day of Emperor Michael's death, I, 552. Pega, a city devastated by plague, II, 415. It is punished by the emperor because of the introduction of Rontzerius, ibid. Peloponnesus is shaken by an earthquake, II, 593. Pensions misappropriated by Emperor Andronicus, II, 590. The sacred cloaks (penulae) of condemned prelates are torn, II, 52. Perdiccas, a physician, is mutilated by having his nose cut off, I, 487. The Bishop of Pergamon refuses to subscribe to the Novella concerning ordinations, II, 200.
The Persians, having followed the factions of the Philanthropenos, pay the penalty, II, 311. They are terrified by the younger Michael, II, 311. They put him to flight, II, 312. They infest lands and seas with brigandage, II, 388. They desolate the suburbs, II, 410. They are put to flight at Choroboskos, II, 443. They kill him, being defeated, ibid. They are defeated by the Alans, II, 452. They are cheated by the Catalans, II, 550. They devastate the region, joined with the Latins, ibid. They capture the cubicle, II, 580. Led by Atinas, they cross into the West to fight with the Amogabares, II, 585. They are defeated by Hilarion, II, 596. In the siege of Rhaidestos, they relax their keenness to fight as a favor to Emperor Andronicus, II, 613. Their leaders, the Amogabares, are suspected and cast into prison, II, 631. They flee from the camp of the Amogabares, II, 633. Terrified by the arrival of the Carmpantani, they commit themselves to flight, II, 651.
Pharendas Tzimes brings aid to the Romans against the Persians, II, 399. He withdraws from them, ibid. He captures Madytos, II, 578, 602. He is named King of Sicily, II, 604. He proposes to the emperor the harshest conditions of peace, II, 623. He breaks the siege of the fortress of Brysis, II, 634. He disguises the fact that he has changed his counsel, ibid. He reports the betrayal by the emperor's sister to the emperor, ibid. He prevents the Romans from capturing the ship of Mpyrigerius, ibid. His fraud is detected, II, 635. He attacks the fortress of Eni with tunnels, II, 651. Defeated, he is captured by Romofortus, II, 652. Set free as a suppliant, he is kept by the Grand Domestic, ibid. B
Pharentzanezas the Amogabarus, a defector, is kindly received by Andronicus, II, 635. Phiala, a place outside the churches, II, 722. Philadelphia, besieged by the Carmanians, II, 421. Liberated by Rontzerius, II, 427. Greatly vexed by him, II, 428. Philanthropenos, guardian of Magnesia, II, 400. Philanthropenos (Alexius) created protostrator, I, 109. Prefect of the fleet, he devastates the islands, I, 209. He defeats the Latins, I, 219. Philes (Alexius) Grand Domestic, I, 206. Philes (Theodorus) blinded by Emperor Theodorus, I, 24. Philippus, nephew of King Charles of Apulia, marries Ithamar, I, 202. He claims for himself the cities promised in the name of a dowry, II, 450. Philippus, duke of the Sicilian fleet, captures the defeated Muriscus, II, 585. Previously captured by Muriscus and treated kindly, he returns equal favor, II, 585. Philippus, Grand Lord (magnus dominus), II, 44. Phocaea and its mines given to Manuel the Genoese by Emperor Michael, I, 420. Photius' judgment on the procession of the Holy Spirit, II, 28. Phrangopulos, accused of injured majesty, I, 284. Plicanizena, wife of Philippus, Grand Lord, II, 44. Expiations (piacula) enjoined for the cleansing of communion with the Latins, II, 20. Pinatas, Bishop of Heraclea, is appointed to sacred palace offices, I, 305. Pincerna Angelus defends Orestias, II, 603. The Pisans, residents of Constantinople, appoint a consul for themselves, I, 163. Planudes the monk, legate to the Venetians, II, 243. Justinian Bridge over the Sangarius, II, 712. Navigation of the Euxine Sea enriches the Genoese, I, 419. Potestas, the name of a magistracy of the Genoese living in Constantinople, I, 162. Praetorian dignity deprived of its insignia, II, 517. Princeps, a proper name for a dynast of the Peloponnesus, I, 402, 596. The dignity of the Prothierakarios bestowed upon Muzalon, I, 21. Prusa, the place of exile assigned to Veccus, II, 36. Besieged by Almane, II, 415. Subdued, it is vexed, II, 597, 830. Ptolemais taken from the Christians, II, 86. Purpura, a part of the Constantinopolitan palace dedicated to childbirth, I, 185, 614. Pyramides: what these might be in imperial equipment, I, 681. Pyrgi, a town plundered by Rontzerius, II, 436. Pyrsolatrai: who they might be, II, 154.
Q Quinquecclesiensis, associate of Moschamparis, accuses the tome of Patriarch Gregorius, II, 115.
R Radosthlabus, sebastokrator of Bulgaria, excels in wealth, II, 266. A fugitive from the emperor, he is sent back to his homeland with troops, ibid. Raul (Alexius), deprived of the dignity of protovestiarios by Emperor Theodorus, I, 25. Cloista, his daughter, wife of Muzalon, I, 65. Raul (Alexius), prefect of the fleet, II, 69. Sent with troops to recall the Alans, II, 319. Wounded by them, II, 321. Raul (Isaacius) is blinded, I, 484. He is appointed legate to the rebellious Philanthropenos, II, 230. Raul (Manuel) is blinded and relegated to Cenchreae, I, 481. The house of Raulis Crassus is plundered, II, 532. Reachubis, a name signifying two locations, II, 547. Redefrans, named by the Arabs as Saint Louis, II, 811. Regina: the name given to the wives of the despotes, II, 752. The King of Armenia stays in Constantinople with the Italian Frerii, II, 242. Rhaidestos is assigned as a place of exile for clergy refusing peace, I, 391. Emperor Michael, imperiled by a storm, lands there, II, 528. It is besieged by the Amogabares, II, 586. It is liberated, II, 613. The tower of Rhaidestos is captured by Romofortus, II, 621. Rhodes shaken by an earthquake, II, 393. Rhos Solymas, duke of the Latins besieging Belgrade, I, 509. Captured, I, 513. Rhos: a species of phalanx, I, 600. Romofortus, duke of the Latins fighting against the Romans, feigns the intention of defecting, II, 587. His fraud is discovered, II, 588. He enters into a treaty with Osphentisthlabus, II, 606. He occupies the fortress of Elia, II, 621. He captures the tower of Rhaidestos, ibid.
A He proposes the harshest conditions of peace to the Emperor, II, 652. He emerges as leader of the army, II, 652. Rontzerius, or Roger the Italian, arrives at Constantinople with a fleet, II, 393. He is said to have passed from being a Knight Templar to a life of piracy, ibid. He serves Theodoric of Sicily against Charles, II, 591. Demand is made for his punishment by the Pope, ibid. Having been released unharmed by Theodoric, he offers his aid to the Emperor Andronicus, ibid. He is created Great Duke and marries the daughter of Asan, II, 395. He fights with the Genoese, II, 398. His soldiers ravage the Cyzicenes, II, 399. He puts the Persians to flight, II, 425. He hands over Chranislabus to the executioners to be strangled, II, 426. He conquers Alisyra, II, 427. He frees Philadelphia from siege, ibid.; he harasses it, II, 428. He reconciles Attaleiotes to the Emperor, II, 429. Having secured the camps of Cula and Phourni, he rages against those by whom they were surrendered, II, 455. He attacks the seditious Magnesians in vain, II, 440. With the siege lifted, he crosses to Madytus, II, 448. He commends Myriogerium to the Emperor, II, 485, 492. Alienated from the Emperor, II, 505. He refuses to come to Constantinople, II, 506. He is adorned with the dignity of Caesar, II, 508. He holds an arrogant speech to his men, II, 510. He is acclaimed Caesar, II, 522. He entangles the Emperor in frauds, ibid. He is splendidly received by Michael Palaeologus, II, 523. He is slaughtered by the Alans, II, 525. His companions are cast into prison, II, 526. They are burned, II, 554. Rucha, a monk, appointed over the church furnishings, I, 172. Rucratines, son of the Iaphatin sultan, contends for the kingdom with his brother Azatin, II, 609. He puts him to flight, II, 611. Rucnedinus, sultan of Egypt, II, 815. B S. Sabas, a monk, sets the brothers Andronicus and Constantine Palaeologus at variance, II, 158. He harasses the clergy, II, 162. Salampacis, a Persian widow, refuses marriage with Alexius Philanthropenos, II, 211. Salpacis, title of the Persian commander, I, 472. The emperors are called "holy" when anointed, I, 507; II, 301. The Sangaris River, fortified with garrisons against the Persians, I, 50-4. Charged with a bridge by Justinian and diverted into another channel, II, 330, 712. Omen of blood, II, 54, 81. The garrison of the Sardis citadel lets in the Persians, II, 589. Sasan, seditious against his master Mantachias and leader of the Persians, II, 589. He subdues Ephesus, ibid. The star of Saturn is seen at Constantinople at midday, II, 49. Scaramangion, an insignia of senatorial dignity, II, 501, 717. Scipio, insignia of a Great Duke, II, 498. Scuteris Chumnus vigorously defends Orestiada, II, 603. Scythian boys bought from the Ethiopians are trained for military service, I, 176. Dwellears on the Danube, II, 80. They are defeated by Umpertopulus, II, 80. A cohort of axe-bearers accustomed to stand guard at the emperors' palace kills Michael, son of the sebastocrator John, II, 77. Sedition of the Constantinopolitans, II, 330. Selybria taken from the Latins, I, 110. Sennacherib, a certain judge surnamed Bad, I, 92. He bears ill the city recaptured by the Greeks, I, 149. Injuries of the Serbs against the Emperor's envoys, I, 351. Serranus, an emended interpretation of a passage of Plato, II, 769. The edict of Emperor Severus concerning not burdening slaves with labor, II, 618. Prophecy of the Sibyl concerning the empire of the Othmanids, II, 831. Seal of Emperor Michael, I, 688. Simonis, daughter of Emperor Andronicus, barely eight years old, is given in marriage to the King of Serbia, II, 275. Canons of Sisinnius concerning marriages, I, 440, 679. Siarus, strategopedarch, gathers the forces of the Tzancrators against the Persians, II, 414. He is defeated, ibid. Smiltzos, turned out of the kingdom of the Bulgarians by Nogas, is forced to yield to the son of Tzacas, II, 266. His widow negotiates marriage with Emperor Andronicus, II, 558. The Bishop of Smyrna refuses to subscribe to the Novel concerning ordinations, II, 200. He opposes the restoration of John of Ephesus, II, 299. The floor of the church is restored by Michael Palaeologus, I, 173. What it is, I, 606. Solymampaxis, leader of the barbarians attacking the Romans, is reconciled to them, II, 345. A prophetic dream realized by its outcome, II, 607. Sophonias, a monk, sent to Apulia to arrange for a marriage, accomplishes nothing, II, 202. St. Sophronius, Bishop of Jerusalem, II, 105. C Sphentisthlabus, deceived under the pretext of adoption, falls by the hand of Maria, Queen of Bulgaria, I, 429. Spinulus, one of the leading men of Genoa, arranges for an auxiliary fleet to be sent to Emperor Andronicus by the Genoese, II, 598. The procession of the Holy Spirit from the Son proved by the testimonies of the Fathers, II, 27. The distribution of sportulae to those ordained by the ordainers is approved by some bishops, but condemned by the Emperor, II, 199. Statue of St. Michael the Archangel thrown down by an earthquake, II, 231. Stephen Uresis, King of Serbia, becomes an in-law to Emperor Michael, I, 350 seqq. His domestic squalor, I, 351. Stephen, brother and heir to the King of Serbia, true heir to the kingdom, II, 273. Strategopulina, odious to Constantine Porphyrogenitus Palaeologus; she is harassed by him, II, 154. Strategopulus (Alexius), Caesar, conquered and captured by Nicephorus, son of the Despot Michael, I, 89. Released, ibid. Sent again against the rebellious Michael, I, 157. He takes Constantinople, I, 140. Conquered by the Despot Michael and sent to Manfred, from whom he is ransomed, I, 89. Strategopulus (Michael) presides over the Blachernai Synod in place of the Emperor, II, 52. He is cast into prison, II, 425. The magnates in turn exact from their own subjects the money extorted from them by the Emperor, II, 69. A deaf-mute is suddenly healed, II, 401, 423. When Symeon Seth lived, II, 686. Synadenus, Grand Stratopedarch, II, 69. Epistles of Synesius, now edited for the first time, I, 639. Synod celebrated against Veccus, II, 25. Syrperus, an envoy sent by the King of Apulia to Emperor Andronicus for the sake of arranging a marriage, II, 195. D Tachantziaris, leader of the Turcopoles, suspect to Amogabaris, is closed in prison, II, 632. Freed, he flees to Tzarapes, II, 633. The ordeal of white-hot iron commanded to prove innocence, I, 33, 631. Its ancient use, I, 632. The lineage of Tamerlane, II, 703. Tamujinus, founder of the Mogul empire, II, 805. Tanaites wind, I, 422, 614. The Seventh Synod follows the opinion of Tarasius, I, 481. He affirms that the Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son, II, 28. Tarchaniota, grand domestic, husband of Martha Palaeologina, I, 33. His sons are at discord through emulation, I, 293. Tarchaniota, protovestiarius, is put in charge of leading the army to Orestiada, II, 68. He refuses the dignity of Caesar before he has proven himself worthy of that honor through a deed well done, ibid. Tarchaniota (Alexius), son of the protovestiarius, called Philanthropenos after his maternal grandfather, II, 210. The Emperor's pincernes, ibid. He is declared Duke of Asia Minor, ibid. His virtues, ibid. He conquers the citadel of the Two Hills, II, 211. He desires in vain to be freed from the care of the province, II, 212. He is urged by monks and the army to aspire to the empire, ibid. Finally, with a seditious oration, he begins a rebellion, II, 216. He assumes the name of Emperor, II, 219. He frustrates the alacrity of the army by delaying, II, 221. He fortifies his wife and son with a garrison, II, 226. Captured by the Cretans, he is handed over to the enemy, ibid. He is delivered up to the Jews to be blinded, II, 228. Tarchaniota (John), leader of the Arsenite party, II, 134. Destined for prison by Emperor Andronicus, II, 135. He eludes Athanasius of Alexandria, ibid. Suspected of aspiring to the empire, he is severely punished, II, 136. Prudent in managing affairs as Prefect of the East, II, 258. Compelled by a mutiny of soldiers, he flees to Emperor Andronicus, II, 260. Thrown into prison again, he is brought out for a conference to be held by the Emperor with the Arsenites, II, 162. Tarchaniota Glaba, declared grand conostaulos from grand papias, is put in charge as leader of the Tocharoi, II, 12. Tarchaniotissa Nostonga, addicted to the Arsenites, II, 354. Tarchas, prefect of the monastery of Sanitou, encourages Alexius Philanthropenos to usurp the empire, II, 214. He pays the penalty, II, 229. Tarites, Genoese ships, I, 419, 614. Who the Tatars or Tartars are, II, 701. What dignity the Tatas of the palace has, I, 512, 614. The Telchines, so-called malicious demons, I, 253, 615. The temple, as defiled by the communion of the Latins, is expiated by the schismatics, II, 20. The fortress of Tenedos, besieged by Muriscos, surrenders, II, 556.
A Joannicius Ternicopulus, though separated from the patriarch, joins with him against the Latins, I, 379. Ternobus, a city of Bulgaria, receives the king Lachanas, who was besieg- ing it, I, 444. It is surrendered to Asanes, I, 447. Earthquake, a huge one, II, 233. Terteres, having repudiated his lawful wife, marries the sister of Asanes and is created despot, I, 447. Upon Asanes being ejected, he becomes king of the Bulgarians, I, 448. He initiates peace with the Emperor Andronicus, II, 57. Terrified by the threats of Nogas, he flees to the Emperor, II, 264. A Comanian by nation, II, 265. Detained as a captive by the Emperor, he is liberated through the work of Osphentisthlabus, his son, II, 266. He is not restored to the kingdom by his son, II, 267. Testament of Arsenius, considered suspect, II, 467. Thasos, the fortress of, is occupied by the lord of Phocaea, II, 638. Marules is sent to recover it, ibid. Thecus, see Constantinus. Theoctistus the Adrianopolitan, his prophecy, II, 25. Theodorus Angelus, having seized the empire, is crowned, I, 82. Captured in war, he is blinded, ibid. Theodorus Lascaris, the son of the Emperor Joannes Vatatzes, called Amatre, is excellently educated by his father for ruling, I, 38. Succeeding his father, he promotes new men and deposes princes, I, 26. Shortly after, he recalls them when suspected, I, 29. He tortures his sister, I, 33. When sick, he gives way to suspicions, I, 32. His genius, I, 55. He dies, ibid. He leaves Muzalon as guardian to his son, I, 39. Theodorus Cyzicenus, troubled by the schismatics, II, 55. Theodorus Manuelita transfers the body of Arsenius from Proconnesus to Constantinople, II, 83. Theodosia (St.) heals a youth who was deaf and dumb, II, 452. Theodosius, the prince and patriarch of Antioch, migrates to Syria to the Latins, II, 55. Theodosius Saponapulus, a monk, takes part in the synod against Veccus, II, 25. Theoleptus of Philadelphia accuses the Gregorian Tome, II, 116. In a commentary by the monk Marcus, he detects an error, II, 118. He considers the abdication of Patriarch Gregorius, which was suspect to others, to be sufficient, II, 132. He deems it permissible for the Sultan to be called brother by the Emperor, II, 247. He joins himself with the mutinous soldiers against Tarchaniotas, II, 260. He opposes the restitution of Joannes of Ephesus, II, 299. He desires to retain Cosmas in the patriarchate, II, 358. Theophanes, Bishop of Nicaea, sent as legate to Rome, perishes in a shipwreck, I, 384. Theophania, the festival of; the ecclesiastics are admitted to communion in psalmody, II, 22. Theophano, daughter of the King of Armenia, betrothed to Joannes the sebastocrator, II, 206. She dies on the journey, II, 284. Theudericus, or Fridericus, lord of Sicily, a rebel against the Church, II, 394, 763. Friend of Mpyrigerius, II, 490, 508. Thomas, what the week of is, II, 805. Thomas, son of the despot Nicephorus Angelus, II, 200. Thymæna, a city in Galatia, II, 760. Thyræorum, the fortress makes a surrender, II, 589. Timurus, brother of Abaka, the emperor of the Mongols, dies of poison, II, 817. Tochari, the, bring the Persians into subjection, I, 129. Terrible to the Romans, I, 133. They call themselves Mugulii and their prince Kanem, I, 231, 344. Their laws, I, 545. Nogas is their leader, I, 344. They invade the Roman borders, I, 232. They are summoned for aid by the Emperor Michael, I, 324. They are sent by the Emperor Andronicus against the Triballi, II, 11. They move against the Roman empire, II, 262. Tome published by Gregorius Cyprius, II, 133. Tornicius the sebastocrator, I, 483. Trajanopolis, the Bishop of, Cudumenes, is sent into Serbia, I, 351. Tralles, restored by Andronicus, son of the Emperor Michael, are named Andronicopolis, I, 469. Destroyed by the Persians, I, 472. Triballi, the, sought by the Romans in war, II, 12. Triclinium Alexiacum, II, 89, 188. Justinianeum, II, 145. Augustum, called the Manueliteum, II, 197. Tricoccia, a fortress taken by Atmanes, II, 658. Tripolis, a fortress on the river Maeander, fortified by the Emperor Ducas, II, 435. Alisyras, put to flight, takes refuge there, ibid.
1426 Tripolis of Syria is snatched from the Christians by the Sultan of Egypt, II, 86. Tritichordeum, what kind of tribute it is, II, 492. Tuctais, a Tocharus, upon Nogas being defeated, gains his kingdom, II. He is excluded from the succession to the empire by his brother, II, 458, 820. Turcopuli, the, flee among the first in the battle joined with the Carelani, II, 550. Converted to the Christian religion, they serve under the Emperor Andronicus, II, 374. Defecting, they invade the Roman lands, ibid. They join themselves with the Catalans, II, 590. Their reconciliation with the Emperor is discussed, II, 609. They liberate the leader Tachantziar, II, 633. They flee from the siege of Tzurulum, ibid. Tyrines. See Tyrophagiae Sunday, II, 78, 376. Tzacas, son of Nogas, affects the kingdom of Bulgaria, II, 264. Circumvented by his brother-in-law Osphentisthlabus, he is killed, II, 265. Tzasimpaxis, the protostrator, is killed with Lachanas, I, 467. Tzernicum, captured by John the despot, I, 107. Tzurulum, besieged in vain by the Amogabares, II, 633.
Umperiopulus, the curopalates, prefect of Mesembria, defeats the Scythians, II, 80. For this he is honored by the Emperor, II, 81. Umpertopulus, the great tzansius, is sent against the Amogabares, II, 513. Holds Bizya, II, 629. Ung-chan, the last of the Prester John kings, II, 805. Uresis. See Stephanus.
V Prophecy found in the soil of the city of Tralles, I, 469. Joannes Veccus, the chartophylax, suspends a priest, I, 370. He is sent as ambassador to the Emperor, who was about to reconcile the Greek Church with the Latin, I, 375. He is accused by Chumnus, I, 376. He is cast into prison, I, 378. Having read the books of the ancient Fathers, he returns to his senses, I, 383. He becomes patriarch, I, 402. He intercedes for the needy with the Emperor, I, 403. He is accused falsely, I, 449. He renounces the throne, I, 454. He is restored, I, 460. He writes against the schismatics, I, 461. He withdraws to the monastery, II, 18. Accused in his absence, he is condemned, II, 25. He weighs the testimonies of the Fathers regarding the procession of the Holy Spirit, II, 28. He increases the decree on the faith, II, 32. Cited before the synod, he pleads his case, II, 34. He is led away into exile to Prusa, II, 86. His colloquy with his adversaries, II, 89. Refusing to join himself to the schismatics, he is relegated to the fortress of St. Gregorius, II, 102. He refutes the Tome of Gregorius, II, 114. He dies in prison, II, 270. Venetians in Constantinople dwell under the magistracy of a bailo, I, 163. They are engaged with the Genoese, II, 32. Having arrived at Constantinople with a large fleet, they burn Galata, II, 237. The goods of the Venetians inhabiting Constantinople are pledged for a huge fine, II, 242. Their senate complains of this matter, II, 243. Demanding the remission of the fine, they besiege Constantinople with a fleet, II, 322. They obtain the remission of the pledge, II, 326. Vestiarii, what their office is, II, 556. Aurelius Victor, the passage concerning actuaries explained, I, 39. Volunteers aid the Greeks in recovering Constantinople, I, 138.
X Xahan-xa, called Sapores, King of the Persians, II, 686. Xiphilinus (Michael), created notary, I, 409. Xiphilinus (Theodorus), the great oeconomus, receives a promise from Veccus not to write about the controversies, I, 416.
Z Zacharias (Manuel), lord of Phocaea, seeks that the guardianship of the islands be committed to him, II, 538. His nephew occupies the fortress of Thasos, II, 658. Zeuxippi, the baths of, in Constantinople, II, 683.