Karykes

Karykes ( Middle Greek Καρύκης ; † 1092 or 1093 in Crete ) was a Byzantine rebel against Emperor Alexios I.

Life

Karykes, whose first name was possibly Niketas , was appointed by Alexios I to succeed Nikephoros Diogenes as governor ( Dux ) of the island of Crete. In 1092 he instigated a revolt against the emperor , presumably in consultation with his Cypriot counterpart, Rapsomates . Alexios I sent a large fleet under the command of his brother-in-law, the Megas Dux Johannes Dukas , who just had to deal with the Seljuk pirate Çaka Bey in the Aegean Sea . When the Cretans learned that Dukas had already reached the nearby Karpathos , they killed Karykes and his followers and handed Crete over to the Megas Dux. Johannes Dukas left a garrison behind to protect the island and turned against Cyprus, where he defeated Rapsomates in an open field battle and thus brought this strategically important Mediterranean island back under imperial control.

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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. 98, No. 127.
Basile Skoulatos: Les Personnages Byzantins de l'Alexiade. Analysis Prosopographique et Synthèse (= Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie. Sér. 6, Vol. 20, ZDB -ID 437846-5 ). Nauwelaerts, Louvain-la-Neuve 1980, pp. 160-161, No. 100 (also: Louvain, Universität, Dissertation, 1978).

Web links

Karykes in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World

Remarks

↑ See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 409; the identity with the eponymous Protoproedros and Dux of Bulgaria , who officiated between 1070 and 1090, is uncertain.
↑ Some authors postpone the episode to the year 1094.

personal data
SURNAME	Karykes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Καρύκης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine governor of Crete and rebel against Emperor Alexios I.
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	between 1092 and 1094
Place of death	Crete

[1] See Cheynet, Pouvoir , p. 409; the identity with the eponymous Protoproedros and Dux of Bulgaria , who officiated between 1070 and 1090, is uncertain.

[2] Some authors postpone the episode to the year 1094.