Theodore Ier Lascaris

See also: Theodore Ier

Theodore Ier Lascaris was Byzantine emperor of Nicée between 1204 and 1222, born in 1174, died in 1222, wire of Lascaris Handbook and Jeanne Karatzine.

After the catch of Constantinople in 1204 by the Fourth crusade, it settles in Nicée, but the crusaders remove to him the Western North of Asia Mineure. It overcomes David Comnène, brother of the emperor of Trébizonde, and Nicomédie in 1205 prevents it from occupying. It is combined with Kalojan and seizes Cyzique and Nicomédie, that the Latin emperor of the East Henri de Hainaut gives up, and concludes a truce in June to him 1207. It is made crown emperor of Nicée in April 1208 or front.

Anxious of his power, the sultan of Iconium Keyhûsrev Ier gets along against him with Latin. He is combined then with Leon II of Arménie, king de Petite Arménie. Theodore Lascaris beats the Turks who threaten it close to Antioche meander in 1210, but is beaten by Latin in Mysie in October 1211. In 1214, it annexes a long strip of land, along the Black Sea, with the detriment of the Comnène S of Trébizonde. It tries to restore the union of the church between 1214 and 1220. It grants the autocéphalie the Serb church, under the direction of Saint Sava in 1219.

It in vain tries to begin again by diplomacy Constantinople, then made peace with the emperor Robert de Courtenay in 1222. It makes empire of Nicée the official relai of the Byzantine Empire until its restoration.

He had married in first weddings in 1199 Anne Ange (1156 † 1212), girl of Alexis III Angel and Euphrosyne Kamaterina, and had had:

Nicolas, died in 1212
Jean, died towards 1212
Irene († 1239), married in 1212 in Constantin Paléologue († 1212), then with Jean III Doukas Vatatzès (1192 † 1254), emperor of Nicée
Marie (1206 † 1270), married in 1218 with Béla IV, king de Hongrie (1206 † 1270)
Eudoxie, promised in marriage to Robert de Courtenay and married to Anseau de Cayeux, governor of Minor Asia

Widower, it remarie in 1214 with Philippa (1183 † ap.1219) girl of Roupen III, king d' Arménie, and of Isabelle de Toron. It separates some in 1216, but a son had already been born from this marriage:

Constantin, born in 1214, duke of Thrace

Lastly, he marries in third weddings in 1219 Marie (1204 † 1222), girl of Pierre II of Courtenay, Latin emperor of Constantinople, and Yolande de Hainaut. Marie is also the back little girl of the king de France Louis VI the Large.

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