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Theodoros Vatazes

Also Known As: "Batatzes"
Birthdate:
Death: 1176
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Husband of Eudokia Komnene
Father of Iōannēs Komnenos Vatazes; Andronikos Vatazes; Anna Komnene Batatzaina; Alexios Komnenos Vatatzes and Manuel Vatazes

Occupation: aristocrat and military commander in the Byzantine Empire
Managed by: Douglas John Nimmo
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About Theodoros Vatazes

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Vatatzes


-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NIKAIA.htm#TheodorosBatatzesdied1176

8. THEODOROS Batatzes, son of --- (-killed in battle Neocæsarea 1176). A seal dated to [1150] names "Theodoros Batatzes"[100]. He took part in the invasion of Cilicia in 1158 with his brother-in-law Emperor Manuel I and occupied Tarsus[101]. The record of the synod of 1166 records the presence of “imperatore domino Manuele Comneno...consobrinis...nostri regis filiis...generi...eius pansebasto...domino Theodoro Vatatze, et domino Andronico et domino Alexio...”[102]. Sébastohypertatos. General. Dux of Cilicia. Governor of Cilicia. Pansébastohypertatos.

m EVDOKIA Komnene, daughter of Emperor IOANNES & his wife [Piroska] [Eirene] of Hungary ([1119]-). Her marriage is indicated by Ioannes Cinnamos who names "Theodorum Batatzem sororium sum", referring to Emperor Manuel I[103].

  Theodoros Batatzes & his wife had four children: