to throw off the tutelage of Theoktistos and his mother, the Empress-dowager Theodora, and on 20 November 855, Theoktistos was assassinated by Bardas and...

the logothete and eunuch Theoktistos. Most of her advisors were, like her, iconophiles, though some (including Theoktistos) had been iconoclasts up until...

fought for influence. Theoktistos disliked Michael's uncle Bardas, and excluded him from court politics. When Theodora and Theoktistos arranged the marriage...

sidelined after Theophilos's death by Theodora and Theoktistos, in 855 he engineered Theoktistos's murder and became the de facto regent for his nephew...

the throne. In 813, Theoktistos was a member of the group of officials which successfully advocated a war with Bulgaria. Theoktistos accompanied the army...

held by the regent Theoktistos. In 855, Petronas and Bardas encouraged Michael III to seize control of the government: Theoktistos was murdered, Theodora...

led by Theoktistos in person, made initial gains, but ultimately ended in disaster. After scoring a victory over the Arabs in Crete, Theoktistos learned...

the powerful logothetes and regent Theoktistos. Although it succeeded in occupying much of the island, Theoktistos had to abandon the army due to political...

Venerable Theoctistus/Theoktistos of Palestine, also Abba Theoktistus/Theoktistos (died 451), was an associate of Euthymius the Great. He was an ascetic...

Theoktistos Bryennios (Greek: Θεόκτιστος Βρυέννιος, fl. c. 842) was a Greek nobleman and a Byzantine general who quelled a Slavic rebellion in the Peloponnese...

regency headed by his mother Theodora, her uncle Sergios, and the minister Theoktistos. The empress had iconodule sympathies and deposed the patriarch, John...

launched a campaign that took most of the island back in 842 and 843 under Theoktistos. Further Byzantine campaigns in 911 and 949 failed. In 960–61, Nikephoros...

the Aegean Sea to piracy. A major Byzantine campaign in 842/843 under Theoktistos made some headway, and apparently allowed for the re-establishment of...

his mother Theodora until 856. The eunuch and Logothetes tou dromou Theoktistos was appointed as coregent with Theodora and was her aid during her regency...

Michael as his successor, a group of senior officials (the magistros Theoktistos, Domestic of the Schools Stephen, and Patriarch Nicephorus I of Constantinople)...

were the magistros (lit. Master of Offices, by this time honorific) Theoktistos, the Domestic of the Schools, Stephanos, and Nikephoros' son-in-law,...

reforms of Basil's predecessor, Michael III (842–867) and of the erudite Theoktistos (died 855). The latter in particular favoured culture at the court, and...

launched a campaign that took most of the island back in 842 and 843 under Theoktistos, but the re-conquest was not completed and was soon reversed. Later attempts...

attempt by the Byzantines to reclaim the island was in 842–843, under Theoktistos. It made some headway, and apparently allowed for the re-establishment...

the powerful logothetes and regent Theoktistos. Although it succeeded in occupying much of the island, Theoktistos had to abandon the army due to political...

common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. November 20 – Theoktistos, co-regent of the Empire on behalf of 15-year old Emperor Michael III...

Muslim sources. Following al-Mu'tasim's death, the Byzantine regent Theoktistos attempted to reconquer the Emirate of Crete, an Abbasid vassal, but the...

his death, Theoktistos and two other imperial officials personally whipped Euthymius to death on account of his iconodulism; Theoktistos was active in...

administration of the regent Theodora and the Logothetes tou dromou Theoktistos in 856. In 858, Bardas found himself opposed by the then Patriarch Ignatius...

Soon after the death of the emperor, in 843, the influential minister Theoktistos convinced the Empress Mother Theodora, as regent for her two-year-old...

'Danke' to Europe". Channel 4. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2025. Theoktisto, Anna (22 August 2023). "Make the Most of Cherry Season With This Black...

seismological, astronomic, and astrological learning, and was patronised by Theoktistos and befriended by Photios I of Constantinople. Cyril was his student...

predecessor, Michael III (842–867 AD) and his wife's counsellor, the erudite Theoktistos. The latter in particular favoured culture at the court, and, with a...

818-821 Theoktistos Bryennios (fl. ca. 842), Byzantine general Theoktistos, chief minister and regent of the Byzantine Empire from 842 to 855 Theoktistos the...

lost their father when Cyril was fourteen, and the powerful minister Theoktistos, who was logothetes tou dromou, one of the chief ministers of the Empire...