Michel Attaleiatès
Michel Attalieatès (1028-1085) was a high-civil servant of the Byzantine Empire under the emperors Michel VII Doukas, (1067-1078) and Romain IV Diogène (coemperor) (1068-1071).
It is originating in Attaléia in Pamphylie. Michel Attaleiatès is especially known as author of a Histoire covering the years 1034-1079/80. It is a small aristocrat of province, which yielded all family fortune to his/her sisters. He illustrates himself by brilliant studies, becoming in turn judge and senator. It is by this skew that it reaches highest dignities of the Empire, and integrates soon, the circle of the closest advisers of the Basileus .
On the religious level, it devotes its incomes to the erection of modest a oïkos : some and dwelling small holdings with Rhaidestos, on the coast of the north of the Marmara Sea, as well as a small monastery with Constantinople, which shelters seven monks. It is then mainly about a family field coming from his first wife, Sophia. Attaleiatès chose to devote the majority of its properties to charitable foundations, unified, equipped in each place with specific equipment: an old people's home with Rhaidestos and a church of Panoiktirmon Christ, “All-Sympathizing” with Constantinople. In the Attaleiatès beginning had expected that the church is served by the regular clergy. But fearing the collecting of sound well by the ecclesiastical authorities, it east is charmed. It provided monks in places and places.
Indeed, in the Byzantine world, association between charitable and monastic foundations is quasi-systematic. For the founder, it is the insurance which the service will be ensured by the monks. Attaleiatès designed its monasteries on a deprived basis, as specified in the diataxis (ordinance regulating the foundation of the monastery). The private character of the unit represents the average ideal to bequeath its foundation in an undivided way to his/her Theodore son and his descendants. This legacy probably took place in 1085. We do not know how Attaleiates lived after the establishment of its rule in 1077. What is sure, it is that it was alive during the collation of a Chrysobulle of the emperor Nicéphore III Botaniatès (1078-1081) about 1079.
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