Basil's Sclerus
Basileios Skleros ( Middle Greek Βασίλειος Σκλήρος ; * around 980 in Constantinople ; † after 1033) was a Byzantine patrician and rebel against Emperor Constantine VIII.
Life
Basil was a son of Magistros Romanos Skleros and grandson of the general and counter-emperor Bardas Skleros . He was married to Pulcheria Argyropulaina , a sister of the future emperor Romanos Argyros ; his daughter was the second wife of the future emperor Constantine Monomachus . In 1026 or 1027 a power struggle broke out in Asia Minor between Basil , then Strategos of Anatolicon , and his buccellar counterpart Presian , whereupon both opponents of Constantine VIII were arrested on the Prince Islands . After a failed attempt to escape from the island of Oxeia , Basil, who was said to have ambitions for the imperial throne, was blinded as a punishment . Romanos III. rehabilitated his brother-in-law and awarded him the high dignity of a master's degree. However, when Basil started a conspiracy against Romanos in 1033, he and his wife, who was an opponent of the Empress Zoe , were banished from Constantinople. His further fate is unknown.
swell
- Michael Psellos , Chronographia , Romanos III 6; Constantine IX 15th
- Johannes Skylitzes , Konstantinos VIII 1; Romanos III 1 and 15
literature
- Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Series Byzantina Sorbonensia. Vol. 9). Reimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantines, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , p. 39 No. 25, p. 44 No. 35.
- 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 , pp. 680-681 No. 21113.
- Werner Seibt: The Scleroi. A prosopographic-sigillographic study (= Byzantina Vindobonensia . Volume 9). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-70-010180-5 , pp. 65–69 No. 13
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basil's Sclerus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Βασίλειος Σκλήρος (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine patrician and rebel against Emperor Constantine VIII. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constantinople |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1033 |