Theophylactus Rhangabe (Patrikios)
Theophylaktos Rhangabe ( Middle Greek Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ραγκαβές ) was a Byzantine patrician and admiral .
Life
Theophylactus was the father of the Byzantine emperor Michael I , who ruled Constantinople from 811 to 813 , and the grandfather of the co-emperor of the same name . In 780 he was at the failed usurpation attempt of the emperor Nikephoros , a son of Emperor Constantine V , against Irene and Constantine VI. involved. At this time he held the post of a drungario (fleet commander) of the Dodecanese (roughly the southern Aegean ). After the plot was uncovered, he and other conspirators were publicly whipped, sheared to become a monk and exiled.
swell
- Kedrenos 2, 20
- Theophanes , p. 454 (in the edition by Carl de Boor )
literature
- Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 4: Plato (# 6266) - Theophylaktos (# 8345). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016674-7 , pp. 672-673 No. 8294.
- Warren T. Treadgold : The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 . Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1988, ISBN 0-8047-1462-2 , pp. 60-61, 128, 405.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Theophylactus Rhangabe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ραγκαβές (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine patrician and admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century or 9th century |