Rapeseed tomatoes

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Rapsomates ( Middle Greek Ῥαψομάτης ; † after 1092/1093) was a Byzantine rebel against Emperor Alexios I.

Life

Rapsomates (the name means "the one with the sewn eyelids", the now common transcription would Rhapsomates ) was Alexios I. for Governor ( Dux ) of Cyprus appointed. In 1092, presumably in consultation with his Cretan counterpart Karykes , he instigated a revolt against the emperor. 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 .

After Johannes Dukas had taken Crete without a fight, he turned against Cyprus, where he first took the fortress Kyrenia on the north coast in a coup. When Rapsomates found out, he set out with a force from Leukosia , occupied the heights around Kyrenia and made camp there. The following day there was an open field battle in which Rapsomates was abandoned by some of his followers. He fled, but was captured by Manuel Botumides while on the run near Nemesus and brought to Leukosia to see Johannes Dukas, who had brought this strategically important Mediterranean island back under imperial control. What became of rapeseed tomatoes afterwards is unknown.

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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 , pp. 97-98, No. 126.
  • Basile Skoulatos: Les Personnages Byzantins de l'Alexiade. Analysis Prosopographique et Synthèse (= Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie. Sér. 6, Volume 20, ZDB -ID 437846-5 ). Nauwelaerts, Louvain-la-Neuve 1980, pp. 271-272, No. 177 (also: Louvain, Universität, Dissertation, 1978).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Some authors postpone the episode to the year 1094.
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SURNAME Rapeseed tomatoes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ῥαψομάτης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine governor of Cyprus and rebel against Emperor Alexios I.
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1092-1093