The Droungarios of the Watch (Medieval Greek: δρουγγάριος τῆς βίγλης/βίγλας, romanized: droungarios tēs viglēs/viglas), sometimes anglicized as Drungary...

A droungarios, also spelled drungarios (Greek: δρουγγάριος, Latin: drungarius) and sometimes anglicized as Drungary, was a military rank of the late Roman...

at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, the former droungarios of the Watch, Simeon, was expelled from the Athonite monastery of Xenophonte...

quickly won the confidence of Theophilos and rose in the court hierarchy. By the end of Theophilos's reign, he was droungarios of the Watch. He retained...

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appointed Count of the Stable, Kourtikes a patrikios and droungarios of the Watch. On 27 January 945, however, at the urging of their sister, the Augusta Helena...

active in the first decades of the 10th century. He was the son of the magistros Eustathios Argyros, droungarios of the Watch under Leo VI the Wise (ruled...

appointed Count of the Stable, Kourtikes a patrikios and droungarios of the Watch. On 27 January 945, however, at the urging of their sister, the Augusta Helena...

introduced the droungarios c. after 902. The largest subdivision of the tagmata was the bandon, commanded by a komēs "count", called skribōn in the Exkoubitores...

the empress and the court-ladies would watch the proceedings down below. A green stone disc of verd antique marks the spot where the throne of the empress...

the commander of the Vigla bore the title of droungarios, in English sometimes rendered as "Drungary of the Watch". The first known holder of the office...

strategos of Hellas and Niketas possibly as admiral of the imperial fleet (droungarios tou ploimou), while he is also recorded as leading an embassy to the Magyars...

and at the same time he had to face another uprising of the Tripolitan governor Prudentius initially watched idly. Under these conditions, the Eastern...

the title of droungarios. It was replaced with the Cibyrrhaeot Theme in the early 8th century. Within each theme, eligible men were given grants of land...

derives from the high official known as the Drungary of the Watch. It marked the western end of the Venetian quarter. It is followed by the Gate the Forerunner...

of the century, soon faced its first serious disaster. In 880, a Byzantine fleet assembled by Emperor Basil I, under the command of the droungarios Nasar...

seal of the 7th–8th centuries mentioning a "droungarios tou nou[merou?]" as an indication of a predecessor of the 9th-century unit, and based on the nomenclature...

honorific prefix, as was the norm with other senior offices during this period, like the Drungary of the Watch or the Domestic of the Excubitors. Nevertheless...

execution of members of the Kantakouzenos family in Constantinople in 1477), or carefully watching their activities. Some prominent members of the nobility...

famous of the mosaics: Christ Pantocrator (Lord of the Universe) watching over all from the crown of the dome. He is depicted with a stern face and a threatening...

Constantine. As with the Prefect of Rome, the night watch came under a subordinate prefect, the νυκτέπαρχος (nykteparchos, "night prefect"). In the 530s, however...

force of 800 soldiers (most of them Cumans) to keep a watch on the Bulgarians and spy out the defences of the Latins. When the Nicaean force reached the village...

corresponded respectively with the infantry's tesserarius (officer of the watch), optio, and signifer. The exact size of the turma under the Principate, however...

for the solemnities of Holy Week. Hence the surreal situation in Stamford Hill on Palm Sunday, 24 March 2024, when a small Muslim boy, watching the Purim...

widely known in Western Europe. In Constantinople, people nervously watched the events taking place in Bulgaria. They believed a pro-Roman Bulgaria threatened...