. English: Skyllitzes Matritensis, fol. 76r, detail. Miniature: The appointment of the Patriarch Ignatios. Text from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes: '... When the thrice-blessed Methodius depared the life after occupying the Constantinopolitan throne for four breif years, Ignatios was enthroned as patriarch. He was the grandson of the emperor Nikephoros [I] on his mother's side and the son of the emperor Michael [I] who fell from power. After he fell from power he was castrated and thus excluded from the succession; he became a monk, then hegoumenos of the monastery of Satyros. ...' (Transla
. English: Skyllitzes Matritensis, fol. 76r, detail. Miniature: The appointment of the Patriarch Ignatios. Text from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes: '... When the thrice-blessed Methodius depared the life after occupying the Constantinopolitan throne for four breif years, Ignatios was enthroned as patriarch. He was the grandson of the emperor Nikephoros [I] on his mother's side and the son of the emperor Michael [I] who fell from power. After he fell from power he was castrated and thus excluded from the succession; he became a monk, then hegoumenos of the monastery of Satyros. ...' (Translated by John Wortley, in: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes, p. 106) References: Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis Historiarum. Editio Princeps. Rec. Ioannes Thurn, p. 106, in: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 5 Series Berolinensis, 1973 Tsamakda V.: The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid, p. 118 Grabar A., Manoussacas M.: L'illustration du manuscript de Skylitzes de Madrid, p. 54 Deutsch: Skyllitzes Matritensis, Fol. 76r, Detail Miniatur: Die Berufung von Ignatios zum Patriarch. Text aus der Chronik von Johannes Skylitzes: '... als der dreimalselige Methodios aus dem Leben schied, nachdem es ihm nur vier Jahre vergönnt war, vom Patriarchenstuhl in Konstantinopel aus die Kirche zu lenken, folgte ihm Ignatios nach; bei ihm handelte es sich um den Tochtersohn des Kaisers Nikephoros, um den Sohn Michaels, der vom Kaiserthron vertrieben worden war. Nach dem Verlust der Kaisernachfolge war er auch noch verschnitten; darauf wurde er Mönch, brachte es bis zum Abt des Klosters des Satyros und wurde schließlich auf den Patriarchenthron berufen. ...' (Synopsis Historion S. 106 übersetzt von Hans Thurn, in: Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber 15, S. 141) . 11th-13th centuries. from the Middle Ages, unknown IgnatiosWithMonks
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