Stephanos Pergamenos

Stephanos Pergamenos ( Middle Greek Στέφανος Περγαμηνός ; † after July 1043) was a Byzantine eunuch , general and conspirator against Emperor Constantine IX.

Life

Stephanos dressed at the beginning of the reign of Constantine IX. the high court dignity of a Sebastophoros . In the spring of 1043 the emperor , who was seriously ill with gout, commissioned the militarily inexperienced eunuch to suppress the dangerous rebellion of the counter-emperor Georgios Maniakes . Stephanos, as strategos autocrator , commanded the great armed force that decisively defeated the maniac's army in a battle near Thessaloniki . The emperor granted him a " triumph " in Constantinople , for which occasion the Monomachos crown was possibly made. In July of the same year, Stephanos himself started a conspiracy against Constantine IX. but it was discovered. Allegedly he planned to bring Leon , the son of his confidante Lampros , to the Byzantine throne. Stephanos was convicted of high treason, shaved off as a monk and banished , and his property was confiscated. Lampros was tortured , blinded and shown in a shameful procession in the capital.

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Michael Attaleiates 19-20
Michael Glykas 594
Michael Psellos , Chronographia 6, 83-87; Orationes panegyricae 2 , 729-736
Johannes Skylitzes , Constantine IX 1-5
Johannes Zonaras 17, 22

Web links

Stephanos Pergamenos in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World

Remarks

↑ See Etele Kiss: The State of Research into the Monomachos Crown and Some Further Thoughts. In: Olenka Z. Pevny (ed.): Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261). Yale University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-300-08929-5 , SS 60-83; here: p. 76.

personal data
SURNAME	Stephanos Pergamenos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Στέφανος Περγαμηνός (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine strategos of Melitene, conspirator against Emperor Constantine IX.
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH	after July 1043

[1] See Etele Kiss: The State of Research into the Monomachos Crown and Some Further Thoughts. In: Olenka Z. Pevny (ed.): Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261). Yale University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-300-08929-5 , SS 60-83; here: p. 76.