Dedication of monastery & hospital at Mangana by Konstantinos IX

Summary:
Among all the building projects of Konstantinos IX the one he preferred most was the monastery in which the church of Hagios Georgios (of Mangana) was built. It was augmented by the construction of imperial apartments, to which he also added a hospital. He spent unsparingly from the public purse on its construction, building and pulling down parts and building them again, so that he ran out of resources and had to invent all sorts of fraudulent ways to exact money. Konstantinos Leichoudes had (perhaps only later?) a role in the management of the complex 
Dates:
1047 April 21 
Emperor Konstantinos IX Monomachos (Konstantinos 9)
  • Appointed Konstantinos 13 guardian of the income and privileges of Mangana (:) προνοίας καὶ τῶν δικαιωμάτων φύλαξ Skylitzes Continuatus 106.8-10
  • Founded a church and monastery dedicated to Saint Georgios (at Mangana) (:) ἀνηγείραμεν καὶ εἰς ἱερὸν φροντιστήριον τὸν οἶκον κατεσκευάσαμεν Mauropous: Orations 198.10
  • In building the monastery of the Mangana, he drained the imperial or public treasuries; lacking money as a result of this, he did not refrain even from illicit money-making (:) Zonaras 17.27.18
  • Among all his building projects the one he preferred most was the monastery in which the church of Hagios Georgios (of Mangana) was built, augmented by the construction of imperial apartments, and to which he also added a hospital (:) συνῆψε δὲ τούτοις καὶ νοσοκομεῖον ἐπιμελείας ἀνάμεστον Attaleiates: History 48.3-11 / 36.14-20
  • Founded a monastery at Mangana dedicated to Saint George, spent unsparingly from the public purse on its construction, building and pulling down parts, so that he ran out of resources and had to invent all sorts of fraudulent ways to exact money (:) Skylitzes 476.44-49
  • His generosity was legendary, especially to churches: the most extreme example was his construction and dedication of the splendid Mangana complex in honour of St Georgios (:) ἡ λαμπροδόμητος μονή ..., ἣν ἐκ θεμέθλων ἤγειρεν, ἀπὸ ῥιζῶν τῶν πρώτων, τῷ θείῳ χριστομάρτυρι τῷ τροπαιοφοροῦντι Manasses, Chronicle 6179-6182
Konstantinos III Leichoudes, patriarch of Constantinople (Konstantinos 13)
  • Was appointed guardian of the income and privileges of Mangana by Monomachos (Konstantinos 9) (:) τῆς τῶν Μαγγάνων προνοίας καὶ τῶν δικαιωμάτων φύλαξ Skylitzes Continuatus 106.8-10