Gregorios Taronites (rebel)

Gregorios Taronites ( Middle Greek Γρηγόριος Ταρωνίτης ; * around 996/997 in Dyrrhachion ?; † after 1050) was a Byzantine patrician and rebel against Emperor Michael IV.

Life

Gregorios Taronites was possibly a son of Ashot Taronites , who fell into Bulgarian captivity after the Battle of Thessaloniki in 995 , was shortly thereafter married to the daughter of Tsar Samuil and defected back to the Byzantines as governor of Dyrrhachion . Gregorios had the title of patrician since 1020 at the latest. In 1040 he started an uprising in the imperial domain of Mesanakta ( Dipotamon , not exactly localizable place in Phrygia ) with the support of Michael Gabras and Theodosios Mesanyktes Tagmata against the Megas Domestikos Konstantinos , a brother of Emperor Michael IV. Konstantinos violently put down the rebellion. While he Gabras and Mesanyktes punishment dazzle left, Gregory was in a bull skin inserted and to the court in Constantinople Opel front of the regent John the Orphanotrophos sent. His further fate is unknown, but he seems to have been under Emperor Constantine IX at the latest . To have been rehabilitated, because on a seal from 1050 a Gregorios Taronites appears as Magistros , Vestarch , Krites and Dux of the subject Optimaton .

swell

• Kedrenos 2, 263
• Johannes Skylitzes , Michael IV 26

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. 51 No. 49.
• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , pp. 2012-2013.

Web links

• Gregorios Taronites in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World
• Taronites on Medieval Lands