DEMETRIOS Tornikes, son of --- Tornikes & his wife --- (-1201). Georgios Tornikes wrote from Constantinople to "Andronikos Komnenos" in favour of "the writer´s brother Demetrios, who was at Branitsova", dated to [1146/56][717]. Niketas Choniates records the activities of "iudices, Monasteriotes Leo, Tornicius Demetrius et Constantinus Patrenus" during the revolution which brought Emperor Andronikos I to power in 1183[718]. "Pansebastos sebastos lord and oikeios [of] our…emperor and logothetes of the dromos lord Demetrios Tornikes" [pa?seß?st?? seßast?? ????? ?a? ???e??? t?…ßas???? ?a? ??????t?? t?? d??µ?? ????? ??µ?t????t?? ???????] is named in a report of a synod convened by Emperor Isaakios II in Sep 1191[719]. Stone and Owens discuss the significance of the title "oikeios" [???e???] borne by Demetrios in this source, indicating a close member of the household or family of the emperor, concluding that it represents another pointer towards the marriage of his daughter to Emperor Isaakios[720]. A seal dated to [1200] names "Demetrios Tornikes"[721].
m --- Malakissa, daughter of EUTHYMIOS Malakes & his wife ---. The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified.
Demetrios & his wife had four children