Michael Apocapes

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Michael Apokapés (Abu K'ab) was a Byzantine Dux from a Melkite Armenian family. The family came from Tayq in Georgia / Armenia (subject Iberia ), where they had extensive estates - and acquired more.

Michael Apokapes had under Romanos III. Argyros and his successors held important army offices and administered Edessa since at least 1038 .

The most important source is Matthias von Edessa , the family is also mentioned in the will of one of his followers, the large landowner Eustathios Boilas from Cappadocia , who later settled on the Çoruh in the Iberia theme.

He was married to a Georgian woman. His son Basileios became a Byzantine magistros and was later governor in Edessa under Philaretus Brachamios , his son Pharesmanes bribed and in 1069 governor in Hierapolis .

literature

  • Michael Grünbart : The Apokapes Family in the Light of New Sources. In: Studies in Byzantine Sigillography. Vol. 5, 1998, pp. 29-41.
  • Speros Vryonis, Jr .: The Will of a Provincial Magnate, Eustathius Boilas (1059). In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Vol. 11, 1957, pp. 263-277, doi : 10.2307 / 1291111 .
personal data
SURNAME Michael Apocapes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abu K'ab
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine Dux
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 11th century