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    The Manglabites or Manglavites (Greek: μαγ[γ]λαβίται, manglabitai; sing. μαγ[γ]λαβίτης, manglabitēs) were a corps of bodyguards in the Byzantine Empire...
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    emperor. The book says that the Byzantine emperor first appointed him manglabites (possibly identified with the title protospatharios), a soldier of the...
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    German Guard Harald Hardrada Hird Housecarl Komnenian army Leidang Mamluk Manglabites New England (medieval) Optimatoi Piraeus Lion (inscription made by Swedish...
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    Eastern Roman Empire. It is believed that he had reached the rank of manglabites in the Eastern Roman army, and on his return to Iceland, his finery and...
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    the hypothesis that the Vardariotai were the replacement of the older Manglabites guards corps. They were commanded by a primikerios, first attested in...
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    in 949. Constantine unknown Romanos I Lekapenos A prōtospatharios and manglabitēs, he was sent to a diplomatic mission to Caucasian Iberia c. 923; in the...
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  • ca. 910, Pothos and his brother Leo Argyros were serving at court as manglabites (personal bodyguards of the emperor), when their father was poisoned...
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  • tried to flee to the Abbasid Caliphate. They were intercepted by the manglabites Bartzapedon however, who killed Bardas and David when they tried to resist...
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  • Manastır Mosque, Istanbul Mandator Mandylion Mangana (Constantinople) Manglabites Manjutakin Mani Peninsula Manichaeism Manolis Hatzidakis al-Mansur Mansur...
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  • ca. 910, Leo and his brother Pothos Argyros were serving at court as manglabites (personal bodyguards of the emperor), when their father was poisoned...
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  • was suicide. His two sons, Pothos and Leo, who served in the palace as manglabites (personal bodyguards of the emperor), arranged to have their father's...
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