Constantin Doukas de Thessalie

Constantin Doukas (in Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δούκας, of Kōnstantinos Doukas of ), directed the principality of Thessalie of 1289 to its death in 1303.

Its life

Constantine Doukas was the second wire of Jean Doukas of Thessalie by his wife. He inherited the grounds of his father because its elder Michel Comnène was in prison with Constantinople. After having succeeded his father in 1289, Constantin reigned in Thessalie and Greece cantral with for Neopatras capital. He was helped by his younger brother Theodore Ange who died in 1300.

Early in her reign, the mother of Constantin started negotiations with the Byzantine empire which was recognized like feudal sovereign of Thessalie and was in exchange to raise Constantin with the dignity of sebastokratōr . Constantin continued the war of his father against Nicéphore Ier doukas, Despote of Epire and his Angevin allies. The countryside of 1295 have as consequence the catch of fortresses that Nicéphore had indicated as being the dowry of the marriage of his/her Thamar sister with Philippe Ier de Tarente, wire of Charles II of Naples and Marie of Hungary. The majority of these positions were lost in 1296 when the angevins sought by the force their dowry. This war ended in a trève with Philippe Ist In 1301, a war obliged Constantin Doukas yielded a fortress of Corfou to Philippe Ist Practically anything else is not known about the reign of Constantin, who died in 1303.

Family

By its wife, Anna Euagionissa, Constantin Doukas have at least a son:

Jean II Doukas, which succeeded to him the head of Thessalie.

Sources

Fine John V.A. Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans , Year Arbor, 1987.
Nicholas Cheetham, Medieval Greece , Yale University Near, 1981.
D.I. Polemis, The Doukai , London, 1968.

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