Hagiotheodorites

Hagiotheodorites (Greek: Ἀγιοθεοδωρίτης) was the name of a Byzantine family of civil and Church officials active chiefly in the 12th century.

The first two known members of the family are the scholar , who served at the court of John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143), and the abbot Nicholas Hagiotheodorites.^[1]

Under Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180), was for a time the favourite official of the Emperor.^[1] Around 1160, the brothers , and Nicholas also attained prominence; Nicholas served as Metropolitan of Athens in the 1160s and 1170s.^[1]

In the 13th century, served as a minister and private secretary to Theodore II Laskaris (r. 1254–1258).^[1][2] A certain John Hagiotheodorites was a cleric in Constantinople in 1357.^[3]

References[]

Sources[]

• Kazhdan, Alexander (1991). "Hagiotheodorites". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 899. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
• Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.

Further reading[]

• Madriaga, Elisavet (2010). "Η βυζαντινή οικογένεια των Αγιοθεοδωριτών (Ι): Νικόλαος Αγιοθεοδωρίτης, Πανιερώτατος Μητροπολίτης Αθηνών και Υπέρτιμος". Byzantina Symmeikta (in Greek). 19: 147–181. doi:10.12681/byzsym.946.
• Madriaga, Elisavet (2015). "Η βυζαντινή οικογένεια των Αγιοθεοδωριτών (ΙI): Μιχαήλ Αγιοθεοδωρίτης, πρωτονωβελισσιμοϋπέρτατος λογοθέτης του δρόμου και ορφανοτρόφος". Byzantina Symmeikta (in Greek). 24: 213–246. doi:10.12681/byzsym.1043.
• Madriaga, Elisavet (2017). "Η βυζαντινή οικογένεια των Αγιοθεοδωριτών (ΙII)". Byzantina Symmeikta (in Greek). 27: 53–89. doi:10.12681/byzsym.1066.