Template:Did you know nominations/Irene Komnene Palaiologina
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:50, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
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Irene Komnene Palaiologina
... that Irene Palaiologina, older sister of Michael VIII Palaiologos, used to lull him promising that he would one day recapture Constantinople, and was the one who informed him of the event in 1261?Source: "In the work of George Pachymeres, there is a stirring and tender story about the way the elder sister Eirene used to lull her brother Michael with a song, praising him as the future emperor who would enter Constantinople through the Golden Gate....According to Akropolites, Emperor Michael VIII, in Meteorion at the time, was unaware of the events. Suddenly, during the night, there was a rumour that Constantinople was free.... Eirene did not hesitate to inform her brother. She found him sleeping and was wondering how to act, fearing that he might be upset if she suddenly announced the news. Thus, she touched him and told him: ‘my king, you have finally captured Constantinople’, adding ‘raise, my king, because Jesus has offered you Constantinople’.- ALT1:... that Irene Palaiologina, older sister of Michael VIII Palaiologos, became a staunch opponent of Michael's proposed Union of the Churches, and tried to form a Bulgarian–Mamluk alliance against him? "Eirene did not hesitate to turn her daughter Maria, the tsarina of Bulgaria, against her uncle. An interstate conflict was then provoked: Michael VIII did not cede to the Bulgarians the cities he had promised them, Anchialos and Mesembria and, as a result, Maria incited her husband against Byzantium. Moreover, Maria and Eulogia sent, possibly in 1276, a certain Joseph Katharos to Jerusalem, to Patriarch Gregory,7 so that the latter would persuade the Egyptian sultan Rukn al‑Din Baybars I to attack the Byzantine emperor, with the help of the Bulgarians. The Egyptian ruler rejected the proposal because he considered the unfamiliar Bulgarians an unreliable ally."
- Reviewed: GrapheneOS
Created by Angel Angel 2 (talk) and Cplakidas (talk). Nominated by Cplakidas (talk) at 19:58, 24 December 2019 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced. No close paraphrasing seen in online sources. ALT1 seems a better-written hook, also a more forceful picture of a medieval woman. But an inline cite is needed for the sentence about her opposition to the Union of the Churches, and the inline cite for the Bulgarian-Mamluk alliance (footnote 3) says nothing about that matter. QPQ done. Yoninah (talk) 23:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Yoninah. Inline ref added; as for the ref #3, the entire relevant section is headed 'Against the Union of the Churches'. If you read it, the context of Irene's and Maria's actions becomes clear. Happy holiday season! Constantine ✍ 10:01, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
