Joseph Bringas

Joseph Bringas ( Middle Greek Ὶωσῆφ Βρίγγας ; † 965 in the Asekretiskloster near Nicomedia ) was a Byzantine eunuch who served as court ruler ( Parakoimomenos ) under Emperor Romanos II .

Life

The Patrikios and Praipositos Joseph Bringas was of Constantine VII. To Sakellarios and later to the fleet commander appointed. The emperor also appointed him head of government for his son and successor Romanos. After his accession to the throne in 959, Bringas was awarded the high dignity of Paradynasteuon and protos of the Senate . As Parakoimomenos he actually held the political reins at the imperial court in his hands; Among other things, he put down the rebellion of Basil Peteinus in 961 . Michael Lakapenos Porphyrogennetos was one of his advisors .

In the power struggle after Romanus' death, Bringas initially acted as the de facto ruler for his underage sons Basil II and Constantine VIII and their mother Theophanu . They had to defend themselves against the claims to the throne of the Domestikos of the Scholes Nikephoros Phokas , who was supported by Bringas' predecessor Basileios Lakapenos . In Konstantin Opel led to riots, during which Bringas finally in the Hagia Sophia to sanctuary had to ask. The new emperor Nikephorus II banished him to the Asekretiskloster near Nicomedia, where he died in the second half of 965.

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• Konstantin Porphyrogennetos , De Cerimoniis 1.96; 2.56
• Leon Diakonos , Historia 2,10; 3.3
• Johannes Skylitzes , Romanos neos 3–5; Basil and Constantine 3–4
• Pseudo-Symeon 757
• Theophanes Continuatus 6, passim
• John Zonaras 16: 23-24

literature

• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , pp. 325-326.
• 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 3: Ignatios (# 22713) - Lampudios (# 24268). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-016668-2 , pp. 414-418 No. 23529.
• 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. 159-160.