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    Staff Concierge Consigliere Chamberlain Executive officer Kouropalates (curopalate) Maître d'hôtel Mayor of the palace Papal majordomo Seneschal Steward...
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    Latinized as curopalates or curopalata (Greek: κουροπαλάτης, from Latin: cura palatii "[the one in] charge of the palace") and anglicized as curopalate, was a...
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  • named Domitian, who became bishop of Melitene. Raised to the rank of curopalates, he was an important general in the Byzantine army. Together with Priscus...
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  • patrimonial holdings of Tao-Klarjeti with his two brothers — Bagrat I the Curopalate and Adarnase — his portion being the territory east of the Arsiani Range...
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    Michael I Rangabé (also spelled Rangabe or Rhangabe; Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ῥαγγαβέ, romanized: Mikhaḗl Rangabé; c. 770 – 11 January 844) was Byzantine emperor...
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    occupation. Recognizing the Byzantine suzerainty, he received a title of Curopalate (Greek: κουροπαλάτης) and established the Kouropalatate of Iberia. The...
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    the Byzantine protection. Being recognized as the presiding prince and curopalates of Iberia, Ashot fought the Arabs from there, gradually incorporating...
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    century. "Gurgen : King : of Kings : great-grandfather : of mine : Bagrat Curopalates" Coin of Queen Tamar of Georgia in Mkhedruli, 1187 AD. The modern Georgian...
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    Tao and another controlling Klarjeti. At the end of the 10th century Curopalate David of Tao invaded the Earldom of Iberia (Kartli) and gave it to his...
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    co-ruler until his death in 1112. He also held the high Byzantine titles of curopalates (c. 1060) and caesar (c. 1081). George's childhood coincided with the...
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    Ashot I the Great (Georgian: აშოტ I დიდი ashot I didi) (died 826/830) was a presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia), first of the Bagratid family to...
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    named Helena. During Justinian's reign, he served in the position of curopalates. He is first attested in the sources from 552 and 553 as being part of...
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    recognized as a presiding prince and bestowed with the Eastern Roman title of curopalates. The Byzantine-Sassanid treaty of 591 confirmed this new rearrangement...
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    Areobindus Tiberius II 578–582 Ino Anastasia Anastasia Areobinda Peter curopalates Maurice 582–602 Constantina Tiberius Theodosius co-emperor 590–602 Maria...
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    Byzantine emperor – pursuant to the policy of division – appointed as curopalates, not Adarnase, but his cousin Gurgen. However, the latter joined Adarnase...
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    Gregoras patricius Epiphania Heraclius the Elder exarch of Africa Theodore curopalates Maria Khosrow II shah of Persia (sister) Shahrbaraz shah of Persia Nicetas...
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  • Tao-Klarjeti. He was a presiding prince of Iberia with the Byzantine title of curopalates from 881 until his death in a dynastic feud in 891. The oldest son of...
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    Overseas".- J. "Georgica", London, Vol. 1, No 2-3, 1936 "La succession du Curopalate David d'Iberie, Dynastie de Tao".- J. "Byzantion", Bruxells, t. 7, 1933...
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    Basil II on his way to Bulgaria. The famous rebel accepted the title of curopalates and died several days later, presumably on April 2. The bloodline of...
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  • (or half-brother) of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641), a curopalates and leading general in Heraclius' wars against the Persians and against...
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  • Byzantine title of curopalates. The 10th-century Georgian writer Giorgi Merchule maintains that Bagrat was confirmed as curopalates, following his father...
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  • I (Georgian: დავით I) (died 881) was a Georgian Bagratid Prince and curopalates of Iberia/Kartli from 876 to 881. He was murdered by Nasra of Tao-Klarjeti...
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    is probably legendary. His brother Petrus (c. 550 – 602) became the curopalates and was killed at the same time as Maurice. Petrus married Anastasia...
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  • football manager Peter Zaťko (born 1983), Slovak wheelchair curler Peter (curopalates) (died 602), Byzantine general and brother of Emperor Maurice Peter (floruit...
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    tribal confederation. The Rojaki defeated the Georgian King David the Curopalate and conquered Bitlis and Sasun in the 10th century. The principality occasionally...
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  • again from 775 to 779/80. Nerse succeeded his father, Adarnase III, Curopalates of Iberia, and defied the Abbasid Caliphate's hegemony in Georgia. In...
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    restores the monarchy and is bestowed with the Byzantine court title of curopalates. The Franks and Burgundians under King Guntram and his nephew Childebert...
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  • of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti with the Byzantine title of curopalates. Ashot was the second son of Adarnase IV, king of Iberia/Kartli and younger...
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    king. In it, it says: — Abandon the portion of the inheritance of the curopalate that I had given to your father, and be content to reign in your patrimony...
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    raids into Armenia territory in 640. Theodore Rshtuni, the Armenian Curopalates, signed a peace treaty with the Caliphate, although the continuing war...
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