Constantine Acropolites

Constantine Acropolites

Constantine Acropolites (Greek: polytonic|Κωνσταντίνος Ἀκροπολίτης, "Konstantinos Akropolitês"), son of George Acropolites, was also a minister of Michael VIII Palaiologos, until he was disgraced. Under Andronikos II, however, he was again in favor. Like his father, too, he wrote much on theology, especially on the more recondite doctrines, such as the procession of the Holy Ghost. In compiling lives of saints he was more usefully employed—that of St. John of Damascus is in the huge collection of Jean Bolland.

He married Maria Komnene Tornikina. Their daughter Theodora married the general Alexios Philanthropenos. [George Pachymeres, Andronicus Palaeologus, III.9-11.] Their daughter Acropolitissa married Michael of Trebizond. [ [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/TREBIZOND.htm#IoannesIITrebizondB. Profile of John II of Trebizond and his children in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley] ] .

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