Romanos boilas
Romanos Boilas ( Middle Greek Ρωμανὸς Βὀΐλας ; † after 1052) was a Byzantine aristocrat who, in 1051 or 1052, a conspiracy against Emperor Constantine IX. cited.
Life
Romanos Boilas was a member of the respected Boilas family , whose members held high offices in civil and military administration during the Middle Byzantine period . Under Constantine IX. he rose in 1049 - surprisingly quickly for his contemporaries - to senator and commander of the Great Hetaireia (palace guard). The chroniclers convey a contradicting picture of how Romanos so suddenly won the favor of the emperor: while Psellos and Zonaras reduce the courtier's character to a speech-impaired buffoon and hypocritical slobber, Skylitzes portrays him as a thoroughly shrewd and capable, albeit cunning, personality.
In 1051 (or 1052) Romanos Boilas played a central role in a conspiracy against Constantine IX, in which several other senators and the bodyguards were also involved. He allegedly tried to persuade an “Alan” ( Georgian ?) Mistress of the emperor to murder the emperor through violent expressions of love . However, his usurpation intention was betrayed by the co-conspirators. Romanos was arrested and, at the instigation of Empress Theodora and her sister-in-law Euprepia, banished to one of the Prince's Islands . Constantine IX However, ten days later he called his confidante back to the court in Constantinople .
The following year, Romanos Boilas was suspected of having written and circulated a slanderous diatribe on the emperor, but Constantine IX. this time also show mercy against his favorite. His further fate is unknown.
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- Michael Glykas 597
- Michael Psellos , Chronographia 6, 134-150; Orationes panegyricae 4, 339-400
- Johannes Skylitzes , Constantine IX 26
- Johannes Zonaras 17, 27
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. 62–63, No. 69.
- Lynda Garland: Byzantine Empresses. Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204. Routledge, London / New York NY 1999, ISBN 0-415-14688-7 , p. 165.
- Lynda Garland: Imperial Women and Entertainment at the Middle Byzantine Court. In: Lynda Garland (Ed.): Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800–1200 (= Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Vol. 8 ). Ashgate, Aldershot 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5737-X , pp. 177-192, here: pp. 182-183.
- Alexios GC Savvides: Romanus Boilas: Court Jester and Throne Counterclaimant in the mid-Eleventh Century. In: Byzantinoslavica. Vol. 56, 1995, ISSN 0007-7712 , pp. 159-164.
- 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 , p. 128.
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SURNAME | Romanos boilas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ρωμανὸς Βὀΐλας (Middle Greek) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine aristocrat and conspirator against Emperor Constantine IX. |
DATE OF BIRTH | 10th century or 11th century |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1052 |