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Loukas Notaras ((ギリシア語:Λουκᾶς Νοταρᾶς)) (executed 3–4 June 1453) was the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire. This position (literally Grand Duke, but more appropriately Lord High Admiral) had been expanded under the late Palaiologid emperors and functioned as an unofficial Prime Minister, overseeing the Imperial Bureaucracy in place of the Megas Logothetes who had previously exercised this function. ==Biography== Loukas Notaras was descended from a Greek family originally from Monemvasia; his earliest ancestor whom we can identify in the surviving sources was one ''sebastos'' Paul, who captured the island of Kythera from the Venetians for the Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1270. Other members of the Notarades can be identified over the following decades. In the middle of the 14th century one branch relocated to Constantinople, where they rose to political and social prominence by supporting Andronikos IV Palaiologos, who was rebelling against his father John V Palaiologos, and then, after Andronikos's death, by supporting his son John VII Palaiologos.〔Klaus-Peter Matschke, ("The Notaras Family and Its Italian Connections" ), ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers: Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th Centuries'', 49 (1995), pp. 59-72〕 Loukas Notaras' father was Nicholas Notaras, who served as interpreter to emperor Manuel II Palaiologos; his mother's name is not recorded. Loukas had at least one brother, who was captured in a skirmish during the 1411 siege of Constantinople and decapitated. Nicholas ransomed his son's head and buried it with the rest of his remains in a public funeral.〔Doukas, 10.9; translated by Harry J. Marguoulias, ''Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks'' (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1975), p. 109〕 In 1424, Notaras was one of three emissaries—along with Manuel Melachrenos and George Sphrantzes—who negotiated a treaty of friendship between Emperor John VII Palaiologos and Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Turks at the end of the Ottoman Interregnum.〔George Sphrantzes, ''Chronicon Minus'', 12.4; translated by Marios Philippides, ''The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401-1477'' (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1980), p. 28〕 His continued importance as an imperial official is attested by his presence at the marriage of the future Emperor Constantine Palaiologos to Caterina Gattilusio 27 July 1441.〔Sphrantzes, ''Chronicon Minus'', 24.10; translated by Philippides, ''Fall of the Byzantine Empire'', p. 52〕 Because of his famous phrase "I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City (i.e., Constantinople) than the Latin mitre",〔Doukas, 37.10; translated by Margoulias, ''Decline and Fall'', p. 210〕 he is often thought to have opposed to the Union of Churches established by the Council of Florence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loukas Notaras」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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