Theophilos Erotikos
Theophilos Erotikos ( Middle Greek Θεόφιλος Ἐρωτικός ; † after 1042) was a Byzantine strategos and usurper against Empress Zoe in Cyprus .
Life
Theophilos Erotikos officiated under Emperor Romanos III. possibly as protospatharios . In 1035 or 1036 he was appointed governor of Dioclitia , the central part of today's Montenegro , by his successor Michael IV after the failed rebellion of the Serbian archon Stefan Vojislav . Vojislav was able to flee from captivity in Constantinople in the winter of 1037/38 and return to Dioclitia, where he started a second, this time successful uprising against Byzantium, which from 1040 was involved in heavy fighting with the Bulgarian separatist Peter Deljan . Erotikos was dropped from Vojislav and chased out of the country.
Notwithstanding this defeat, Theophilos Erotikos was soon appointed Strategos of Cyprus. In the confusion of the throne after the deposition of Michael V in April 1042, he seized the opportunity and sparked a revolt in the course of which the imperial Krites ("judge") Theophylactus , who was also responsible for collecting the provincial taxes, was murdered. The new emperor Constantine IX. sent a fleet under the command of Konstantin Chage , who quickly put down the uprising of the Cypriots and captured Erotikos. The rebel was brought to Constantinople , where he was publicly humiliated in a shameful procession : he had to ride a horse through the hippodrome in women's clothes . Erotikos' goods were then confiscated, but he himself was released. His further fate is unknown.
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- Michael Glykas 594.20
- Johannes Skylitzes , Michael IV 21, Constantine IX 4
- John Zonaras 17.22
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 , p. 56 No. 59.
- John VA Fine: The Early Medieval Balkans. A critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI 1991, ISBN 0-472-08149-7 , p. 206.
- 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 , pp. 383-384.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Theophilos Erotikos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Θεόφιλος Ἐρωτικός (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine usurper in Cyprus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10th century or 11th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 11th century or 12th century |