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...
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the logothete and eunuch Theoktistos. Most of her advisors were, like her, iconophiles, though some (including Theoktistos) had been iconoclasts up until...
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fought for influence. Theoktistos disliked Michael's uncle Bardas, and excluded him from court politics. When Theodora and Theoktistos arranged the marriage...
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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...
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Theoktistos Bryennios (Greek: Θεόκτιστος Βρυέννιος, fl. c. 842) was a Greek nobleman and a Byzantine general who quelled a Slavic rebellion in the Peloponnese...
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led by Theoktistos in person, made initial gains, but ultimately ended in disaster. After scoring a victory over the Arabs in Crete, Theoktistos learned...
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the throne. In 813, Theoktistos was a member of the group of officials which successfully advocated a war with Bulgaria. Theoktistos accompanied the army...
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Theoctistus of Palestine (redirect from Abba Theoktistos)
Venerable Theoctistus/Theoktistos of Palestine, also Abba Theoktistus/Theoktistos (died 451), was an associate of Euthymius the Great. He was an ascetic...
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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...
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held by the regent Theoktistos. In 855, Petronas and Bardas encouraged Michael III to seize control of the government: Theoktistos was murdered, Theodora...
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regency headed by his mother Theodora, her uncle Sergios, and the minister Theoktistos. The empress had iconodule sympathies and deposed the patriarch, John...
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the powerful logothetes and regent Theoktistos. Although it succeeded in occupying much of the island, Theoktistos had to abandon the army due to political...
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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...
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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...
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818-821 Theoktistos Bryennios (fl. ca. 842), Byzantine general Theoktistos, chief minister and regent of the Byzantine Empire from 842 to 855 Theoktistos the...
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Michael as his successor, a group of senior officials (the magistros Theoktistos, Domestic of the Schools Stephen, and Patriarch Nicephorus I of Constantinople)...
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his death, Theoktistos and two other imperial officials personally whipped Euthymius to death on account of his iconodulism; Theoktistos was active in...
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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...
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were the magistros (lit. Master of Offices, by this time honorific) Theoktistos, the Domestic of the Schools, Stephanos, and Nikephoros' son-in-law,...
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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...
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emperors, who functioned as effective chief ministers: most notably Theoktistos under Michael III (r. 842–867), Nikephoros Ouranos in the early reign...
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members of the family appear in the 9th century, with the strategos Theoktistos Bryennios. None are known for the 10th, but they reappear in the latter...
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administration of the regent Theodora and the Logothetes tou dromou Theoktistos in 856. In 858, Bardas found himself opposed by the then Patriarch Ignatius...
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Muslim sources. Following al-Mu'tasim's death, the Byzantine regent Theoktistos attempted to reconquer the Emirate of Crete, an Abbasid vassal, but the...
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'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...
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being' and karta- 'made'. It is comparable to Persian Bagkart and Greek Theoktistos. Yazdegerd is known in other languages as follows: Middle Persian—Yazdekert;...
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Michael III as co-emperor 840–842 Michael III 842–867 with Theodora and Theoktistos 842–855 as regents with Basil I as co-emperor 866–867 Succession v t...
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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...
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Sophonias. Concurrently to these four, the archbishop of Andrianople Theoktistos was also of some import to the negotiations with Charles of Valois as...
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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...
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