March 1216-1222 A.D. Manuel II Charitopoulos—Constantinople’s 129th; Called the “Philosopher”
March
1216-1222 A.D. Manuel II
Charitopoulos—Constantinople’s 129th; Called the “Philosopher”
References
Manuel I of
Constantinople
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Manuel I, surnamed Sarantenos or Charitopoulos (Greek: Μανουήλ Α΄ Σαραντηνός or Χαριτόπουλος), was Patriarch of Constantinople from December 1216 or January [1217] to [1222. He seems to have been called
"the Philosopher": George
Akropolites says
he was "a philosopher, it seems, in deed, and so named by the
people." Manuel was Patriarch-in-exile as at the time his titular seat was
occupied by the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, and he resided in Nicaea. Before the sack of 1204, Manuel was
a deacon and hypatos ton philosophon in Constantinople. This is likely the source of his epithet "the
Philosopher".[1]
Under Manuel I, Saint Sava had become an archbishop and an autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church was formed in the territory of the Serbian Kingdom of Stefan Nemanjić.
Manuel is noted for his role
in a diplomatic interplay between the Nicaean emperor Theodore I
Laskaris and
the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Robert of
Courtenay, in 1222. Robert had
approached Theodore for a peace treaty and the latter offered his daughter
Eudokia in marriage to cement the deal. But Theodore had married Marie de
Courtenay, Robert's sister, in 1217.
Manuel is thus reported by George
Akropolites to
have blocked the betrothal, twice negotiated, on religious-legal grounds:
Robert, Theodore's brother-in-law, could not also become his son-in-law as this
was an 'illegal union' and constituted incest as it was within the third degree of kinship.[2]
References
1. Jump up^ George Akropolites (Ruth Macrides, ed). The History. Oxford: University Press,
2007. pp. 159-160.
2.
Jump up^ George Akropolites (Ruth Macrides, ed). The History. Oxford: University Press,
2007. Editor's notes, pp. 158.
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