Nikephoros Diogenes (Greek: Νικηφόρος Διογένης), Latinized as Nicephorus Diogenes, was presumably a junior Byzantine emperor around 1069–1071. He was...

up Diogenes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diogenes (412–323 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Diogenes may...

recorded in sources. He had a brother, Nikephoros Diogenes, whose birth is not recorded either. Romanos IV Diogenes and Eudokia Makrembolitissa married on...

Romanos IV Diogenes (Greek: Ῥωμανός Διογένης, romanized: Rōmanos Diogenēs; c. 1030 – c. 1072) was Byzantine emperor from 1068 to 1071. Determined to halt...

high opinion of Nikephoros was likely shaped by Nikephoros raising him to the rank of vestes, and by his benefiting from Nikephoros's patronage. Much...

Pseudo-Constantine Diogenes or Pseudo-Leo Diogenes (died after 1095) was an unsuccessful pretender to the Byzantine throne against Emperor Alexios I Komnenos...

emperor his nickname Parapinakēs. In 1078 two generals, Nikephoros Bryennios and Nikephoros Botaneiates, simultaneously revolted in the Balkans and Anatolia...

Nikephoros Choumnos (c. 1250–1327), Byzantine chief minister and scholar Nikephoros Diogenes general and son to Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes...

Romanos IV Diogenes. She acted as regent of her minor son, Michael VII in 1067, and resigned her regency by marriage to Romanos IV Diogenes. When he was...

1094/5, led by a pretender who claimed to be Constantine Diogenes, the son of Romanos IV Diogenes, who had died in 1073. Bryennios had at least one son....

Komnenos Leo Diogenes, by the second marriage, born c. 1069, died 1087 Nikephoros Diogenes, by the second marriage, born c. 1070, died after 1094 Helena Argyre;...

Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from...

Makrembolitissa Romanos IV Diogenes (w. Leo & Nikephoros) Michael VII Doukas (w. Andronikos, Konstantios & Constantine Doukas) Nikephoros III Botaneiates Alexios...

was the father of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. Constantine Diogenes is the first notable member of the noble Diogenes family with origins from Cappadocia...

Taronites, the brother-in-law of Alexios. Nikephoros Diogenes, the son of emperor Romanos IV. Pseudo-Leo Diogenes , an impostor who assumed the identity...

Pentegostis. Here he discovered the plot of Nikephoros Diogenes, son of the former emperor Romanus IV Diogenes, to kill the emperor. Nicephorus was an old...

Konstantios only had to contend with Nikephoros III, as Nikephoros Bryennios had been defeated by Nikephoros III at the Battle of Kalavrye, and subsequently...

in which Nikephoros supposedly originated from the Iyad tribe; she doubts both traditions, believing that they are simply legends. Nikephoros, a patrician...

Diogenes (r. 1068–1071), Constantine's son Michael VII Doukas (r. 1071–1078), Michael's son and co-emperor Constantine Doukas, and finally Nikephoros...

 83 Mango & Scott 1997, p. 643 Garland 1999, p. 162 ODB, "Bryennios, Nikephoros" (A. Kazhdan), pp. 330–331 Skoulatos 1980, pp. 222–223 Holmes 2005, p...

Constantine Diogenes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Διογένης; died 1073) was one of the sons of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes (reigned 1068–1071). He was...

eastern Thrace. He was killed at Adrianople. Nikephoros Diogenes (1094) – the son of Romanos IV Diogenes and a former co-emperor, he had been made governor...

Nikephoros Palaiologos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Παλαιολόγος; died 18 October 1081) was a Byzantine general of the 11th century. Nikephoros is the first known...

(katepano) Michael Karantenos (1088–1089), vestarch Karykes (1090–1092) Nikephoros Diogenes (before 1094), son of Romanos IV Michael (11th/12th century) John...

1078 tried to overthrow the Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates and was defeated by Alexios Komnenos. Nikephoros is described as the most illustrious...

According to the historian Nikephoros Bryennios, after John's death, Anna entrusted Adrianos and his younger brother Nikephoros to tutors, and gave them...

co-emperor by his father, and was raised to the dignity only by Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068–1071). He is otherwise relatively insignificant, and was not involved...

Nikephoros Xiphias (Greek: Νικηφόρος Ξιφίας, fl. c. 1000 – 1028) was a Byzantine military commander during the reign of Emperor Basil II. He played a distinguished...

Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor 1041-1042 (epileptic) Nikephoros Diogenes, Byzantine Emperor 1070–1071 (blinded by Alexios I Komnenos for plotting...

par with the Caesar Nikephoros Melissenos. Despite these high honours, he became involved in the conspiracy of Nikephoros Diogenes, the son and briefly...