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Encyclopedia Britannica



DUCAS

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 628 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
DUCAS , Duxes or Domcas, the name of a Byzantine family which supplied several rulers to the Eastern
Empire
 . The family first came into prominence during the 9th century, but was ruined when
Constantine
  Ducas, a son of the generalAndronicus Ducas, lost his life in his effort to obtain the imperial crown in 913. Towards the end of the loth century there appeared another family of Ducas, which was perhaps connected with the earlier family through the female line and was destined to attain to greater fortune. A member of this family became emperor as
Constantine
  X. in 1059, and Constantine's son Michael VII. ruled, nominally in conjunction with his younger
brothers
 , Andronicus and Constantine, from 1071 to 1078. Michael left a son, Constantine, and, says Gibbon, " a daughter of the
house
  of Ducas illustrated the blood, and confirmed the succession, of the Comnenian dynasty." The family was also allied by
marriage
  with other
great
  Byzantine houses, and after losing the imperial dignity its members continued to take an active
part
  in public affairs. In 1204 Alexius Ducas, called Mourzoufle, deposed the emperor Isaac Angelus and his son Alexius, and vainly tried to defend Constp.ntinople against the attacks of the Latin crusaders. Nearly a century and a half later one Michael Ducas took a leading
part
  in the civil war between the emperors John V. Palaeologus and John VI. Cantacuzenus, and Michael'sgrandson was the historian Ducas (see below). Many of the
petty
  sovereigns who arose after the destruction of the Eastern
Empire
  sought to gain prestige by adding the famous name of Ducas to their own.


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