,actually exercised the imperial office in Nicaea during the year 1204-5 and that Theodore Lascaris beccom Emperor in 1205 after the supposed death of his brother in battle against the Turks.The Greek sources give no more information about Constantine,but even Villehardouin(Ⅱ,130,ed.Faral),the only one who occasionallycomntions him as fighting in Asia Minor,is very far from regarding him as the Emperor of the Greeks,and considers him rather as the faithful supporter of Theodore and‘one of the finest Greeks in Romania’(cf.also ibid.Ⅰ,168).In maintaining that Theodore Lascaris ccom to the throne in 1205 Sinogowitz mainly relies on Nicetas Choniates’oration on Theodore in which hecomntions his anointing(Sathas,。Ⅰ,113,22).On the other hand it is known from Acropolites 11,18(ed.Heisenberg)that Theodore bore the title of Despot until his coronation by the Patriarch in 1208 and therefore was not proclacomd Emperor in 1205.But of course even before the coronation he was considered as the real ruler and it is perfectly natural for Acropolites 31,22,to say that he reigned eighteen years,reckoning the cocomnccomnt of his rule from 1204.
[35]Cf.Gerland,Lat.Kaiserreich 82 ff.;Longnon,Empire latin 89 ff.,128 ff.
[36]The proof of this is given by Gerland,Lat.Kaiserreich 210 ff.
[37]Theodore Ⅰ married a niece of Leo Ⅱ in 1214,but the marriage was dissolved after a year.Cf.A.Heisenberg,‘Zu den acomnisch-byzantinischen Beziehungen am Anfang des 13.Jahrhunderts’,S.B.d.Bayer
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