Ioannes Tzetzes wrote to Anna Komnene as a fellow-resident of the Pantokrator monastery, complaining about the family of the heretic Tzourichos. The year before, the patriarch Michael II Kourkouas had investigated and interrogated Tzourichos in the gallery of the church of St Peter and St Paul in the Orphanotropheion, pronounced him a complete heretic and threatened him with burning. He also condemned Tzourichos' mature son to 36 strokes of the cudgel, but he had been saved from punishment by the intervention of the metropolitan of Thessalonike. Tzetzes was particularly angry about Tzourichos' son-in-law, who had come from Adrianople to the capital to work in the imperial stables. He had made violent threats against Tzetzes when he refused to call Tzourichos a saint. Tzetzes told Anna that respect for her (he speaks of her gateway) was all that stopped him from violently punishing Tzourichos' son-in-law himself; to support his case, he inclosed a false narrative of a divine vision of Tzourichos. This narrative of heresy, violence and threats of more violence was designed to have the man dismissed from imperial service