Nikephorus Comnenus

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Nikephoros Komnenos ( Middle Greek Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός ; * around 975 [?]; † after 1027) was a Byzantine general and rebel against Emperor Constantine VIII.

Life

In 1021, after negotiations in Trebizond between Emperor Basil II and David, son of King Seneqerim Johannes , the Byzantine Empire annexed the Armenian Kingdom of Vaspurakan in exchange for territories in Central Anatolia. The Protospatharios Nikephoros Komnenos, who was perhaps an older brother of the later Emperor Isaac I , was installed around 1022 as strategos of the newly created subject Vasprakania and entrusted with the complete integration of the area into the Byzantine military and civil administration. In this context conquered Nikephoros and the north of Lake Van location Principality arces .

Nikephorus remained in office as strategos under Constantine VIII until he was deposed in 1026 and recalled to Constantinople , where the emperor blinded him after a year in prison . According to the Armenian historian Aristakes von Lastiverz , Nikephorus was accused of high treason because he had allied himself with the Georgian King Giorgi I. Skylitzes, on the other hand, accuse the emperor of excessive distrust. His further fate is unknown.

swell

  • Aristakes von Lastiverz 5, 26-27 (in the edition by Marius Canard and Haig Berbérian)
  • Johannes Skylitzes , Basil 39; Constantine VIII 1

literature

  • Κωνσταντίνος Βαρζός: Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Τ. 20α , ISSN  1106-6180 ). Τόμος Α '. Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1984, pp. 39-40 No. 3, digitized version (PDF; 264 MB) .
  • Jean-Claude Cheynet: Pouvoir et contestations à Byzance (963-1210) (= Publications de la Sorbonne. Series Byzantina Sorbonensia. Volume 9). Reimpression. Publications de la Sorbonne Center de Recherches d'Histoire et de Civilization Byzantines, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-168-5 , p. 38 No. 24.
  • Franz Dölger : Regest of the imperial documents of the Eastern Roman Empire from 565-1453. Part 1, half volume 2: Regesten from 867-1025 (= corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times. Row A: Regesten. Dept. 1, Part 1, half volume 2). 2nd edition revised by Andreas E. Müller . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-51351-4 , No. 811c.
  • 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 4: Landenolfus (# 24269) - Niketas (# 25701). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-016669-9 , pp. 760–761 No. 25676 (with further information on Armenian and Arabic sources).
  • Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza: Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople. 2nd Edition. Self-published, Paris 1999, ISBN 904747 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ So Sturdza, Dictionnaire. P. 274.
personal data
SURNAME Nikephorus Comnenus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine general and rebel against Emperor Constantine VIII.
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: around 975
DATE OF DEATH after 1027