Constantine Chabaron

Constantine Chabaron (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Χαβάρων; fl. 1256/57–59) was an official and provincial governor for the Empire of Nicaea.

He was a confidant of Emperor Theodore II Laskaris, and was appointed by him governor of the region of Arbanon, in modern central Albania.^[1] In 1256/7 he was seduced, however, by Maria Sphrantzaina, the widowed sister-in-law of the Despot of Epirus, Michael II Komnenos Doukas. Chabaron married Maria and defected to the Epirote ruler, only to be imprisoned at Kanina.^[1][2] In 1259, Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos sent Theodore Philes to achieve the release of Chabaron. Nothing further is known of him, but his wife remarried in 1266.^[1][2]

References

1. PLP, 30334. Χαβάρων Κωνσταντῖνος.
2. PLP, 27269. <Σφράντζαινα> Μαρία.

Sources

• Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.