Exile Case

Here you will find information about an individual exile case and links which enable you to view exile locations on a map as well as visualise the relationships between people and groups using a network diagram.
Person/Group Macedonius II of Constantinople ( view the social network for this person / group )
Exile Date 511 - c. 517 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/517)
Sources Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica 492, 514 (GCS 53:139, 148); Marcellinus comes, chronica 511, 514 (MGH Auct. Ant. 11.2:97-8); Theophanes 6004 and 6008 (de Boor 154-156, 161-162); Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 7.7 (CSCO 84:39-40, 87:26-28); Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.9 (edited by Chabot, Incerti auctoris Chronicon Pseudo-Dyonisianum vulgo dictum. I-II, CSCO 91 and 121, Paris 1927-Louvain 1949); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 3.30-31; Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 507-509 (Harrak, 44);

Locations view exile locations

Location of exile's previous office Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Location exiled from Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Location exiled to Euchaita [Beyözü]
Location(s) arrived at Chalcedon [Kadiköy]
Date of arrival 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
Relationship to location unknown
Type of location city
Reason for leaving moved by authorities
   
Location(s) arrived at Euchaita [Beyözü]
Date of arrival 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
Relationship to location alien place
Type of location settlement,oasis
Reason for leaving moved by authorities
   
Location(s) arrived at Gangra [Çankırı]
Date of arrival after 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/517)
Relationship to location alien place
Type of location settlement
Reason for leaving n/a
Location(s) exile returned to
Location of office after return
Notes According to Zacharias, he went to Oasis

Activities in Exile

Activities Related to Doctrine
Died in exile? yes
Reason for death murdered
Writings in Exile unknown

Legal details

Threat only no
Refuge from judicial proceedings no
Consequence of asylum no
Offenses exiled for/accused of Unwillingness to hand out Calchedonian book
Legal type of exile exilium
Additional punishments deposition
Intended duration permanent
Actual duration permanent
Returned? no
Reason for return
Deposed by synod? no
Synod deposed by
Returned by synod? n/a
Synod returned by

Religious status, office and affiliation

Religious status before exile clerical
Religious status during exile ??
Religious status after return n/a
Clerical or ascetic office before exile bishop
Clerical or ascetic office during exile
Clerical or ascetic office after return n/a
Enforced rank change? yes
Religious affiliation before exile
Religious affiliation during exile
Religious affiliation after return
Died in exile? yes
Reason for death murdered

Cult

Venerated as a saint? martyr in the church of Alexandria
Date Date: Unknown
Notes D. Stiernon, Macedonio de Constantinopla, in: DPAC II (1991), 1335
Cult site
Shrine of the holy martyr Callinicus he was buried closed to relics of the saint Locations: Gangra [Çankırı] Date: c. fourth century? (from: --/--/400 to: --/--/--)
Relics

Exile Relationships: Interactions

    Anastasius

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location
    Office Emperor
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
    Yes
  • Timotheus of Constantinople

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes he also removes images of Macedonius
    Successor in post
    Yes
  • magistrianus

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Claudiopolis [Bolu]
    Office magistrianus
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes stops Macedonius to conduct trial
    Responsible for exile (or exile threat) Military Escort
    Yes Yes
  • Some bishops and a presbyter from Cyzicus

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Claudiopolis [Bolu]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes messenger of deposition notice, however not accepted
    Messenger
    Yes
  • auxiliaries

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Military Escort
    Yes
  • Magistrus, friend of Macedonius

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Pronoucement
    Yes
  • Stewards of Macedonius

  • Interaction Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality support
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (try to prevent exile)
  • Anastasius

  • Interaction Date c. 517 (from: --/--/517 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location
    Office Emperor
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (he ordered that Macedonius is held under same conditions and sent a murderer)
  • Theodorus (in Gangra)

  • Interaction Date c. 517 (from: --/--/517 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) unknown
    Relationship Quality support
    Notes he saw Macedonius in a dreamTheodorius could be identical with Theodorus lector, the author of a church history
    Companion
    Yes

Other Relationships: Contacts of an exiled Person/Group's contacts'

    Person 1 Anastasius
    Person 2 magistrianus
    Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/--)
    Relationship Quality subordinate
    Notes the emperor sends a magistrianus
    Person 1 Magistrus, friend of Macedonius
    Person 2 Stewards of Macedonius
    Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/511)
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes the stewards ask Magistrus not to go through with the exile order
    Person 1 Magistrus, friend of Macedonius
    Person 2 auxiliaries
    Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/511)
    Relationship Quality subordinate
    Notes the auxiliaries help to follow through with the exile order
    Person 1 Anastasius
    Person 2 Magistrus, friend of Macedonius
    Date 511 (from: --/--/511 to: --/--/511)
    Relationship Quality subordinate
    Notes the emperor asks Magistrus to pronounce the exile order to Macedonius in order to humiliate him
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