Basil Chalkocheir

Basileios , nickname Chalkocheir ("copper hand"; Middle Greek Βασίλειος ὁ Χαλκόχειρ , † around 932 in Constantinople ), was a Byzantine usurper against Emperor Romanos I.

Life

Basil came from Macedonia and pretended to be Constantine Dukas , who was actually killed in an usurpation attempt in July 913 . 930 he gathered in the area of the theme Opsikion a larger number of followers around him, until he was captured and brought to Constantinople Opel where you struck off a hand. However, Basil was able to flee back to the Opsikion, where he had a copper hand made. With his followers he occupied the Thracese fortress of Plateia Petra (near Thyatira ) and undertook raids from there, but finally had to surrender to an army sent by Romanos I. In Constantinople, the emperor had the usurper burned on the Amastrianon .

swell

• Pseudo-Symeon 745
• Johannes Skylitzes , Romanos Lakapenos 2
• Symeon Logothetes 136
• Theophanes continuatus 6, 33

literature

• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , SS 268.
• Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Beate Zielke, Harald Bichlmeier, Bettina Krönung, Daniel Föller, Alexander Beihammer , Günter Prinzing : Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 2nd department: (867-1025). Volume 1: A ... i ... (# 20001) - Christophoros (# 21278). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-016666-8 , p. 600 No. 20927.
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 2: Baanes-Eznik of Kolb . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , pp. 69-70.