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Un documento inedito sul matrimonio di Teodoro I Lascaris con Filippa della Cilicia armena

    Beatrice Daskas

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 74, pp. 87, 2025/03/05

doi: 10.1553/joeb74s87

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doi:10.1553/joeb74s87

Abstract

An unpublished Document on the Marriage of Theodore I Lascaris to Philippa of Armenia-Cilicia: The dossier of evidence concerning the marriage of Theodore I Lascaris, Emperor of Nicaea (r. 1205–1221), to the Armenian princess Filippa is now supplemented by a hitherto unpublished document preserved in the codex Ambrosianus F 93 sup (Diktyon 42762), ff. 5r, l. 26–6v, l. 17. This document, a letter from Nicholas Mesarites, Metropolitan of Ephesus and Exarch of all Asia, to Demetrius Tornices Comnenus, witnesses the discovery of the fraud regarding the identity of the Armenian bride, who was the niece, rather than the daughter, of Leo I, King of Armenia-Cilicia (r. 1199–1219). This contribution provides an edition of the letter along with a commentary that aims to contextualize the marriage within the historical and diplomatic dynamics of the period (c. 1213–1215).

Keywords: Leo I, King of Armenia-Cilicia; Theodore I Lascaris, Emperor ofNicaea; Philippa, Daughter ofRupen III, Gover­nor of Armenia-Cilicia; John ofBrienne, King of Jerusalem; Fraudulent Marriage.