Nikephoros Diogenes (Greek: Νικηφόρος Διογένης), Latinized as Nicephorus Diogenes, was presumably a junior Byzantine emperor around 1069–1071. He was...
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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...
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recorded in sources. He had a brother, Nikephoros Diogenes, whose birth is not recorded either. Romanos IV Diogenes and Eudokia Makrembolitissa married on...
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Romanos IV Diogenes (Greek: Ῥωμανός Διογένης, romanized: Rōmanos Diogenēs; c. 1030 – c. 1072) was Byzantine emperor from 1068 to 1071. Determined to halt...
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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...
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Pseudo-Constantine Diogenes or Pseudo-Leo Diogenes (died after 1095) was an unsuccessful pretender to the Byzantine throne against Emperor Alexios I Komnenos...
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emperor his nickname Parapinakēs. In 1078 two generals, Nikephoros Bryennios and Nikephoros Botaneiates, simultaneously revolted in the Balkans and Anatolia...
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Nikephoros Choumnos (c. 1250–1327), Byzantine chief minister and scholar Nikephoros Diogenes general and son to Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes...
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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...
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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....
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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;...
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Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from...
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Makrembolitissa Romanos IV Diogenes (w. Leo & Nikephoros) Michael VII Doukas (w. Andronikos, Konstantios & Constantine Doukas) Nikephoros III Botaneiates Alexios...
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was the father of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. Constantine Diogenes is the first notable member of the noble Diogenes family with origins from Cappadocia...
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Taronites, the brother-in-law of Alexios. Nikephoros Diogenes, the son of emperor Romanos IV. Pseudo-Leo Diogenes , an impostor who assumed the identity...
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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...
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Konstantios only had to contend with Nikephoros III, as Nikephoros Bryennios had been defeated by Nikephoros III at the Battle of Kalavrye, and subsequently...
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in which Nikephoros supposedly originated from the Iyad tribe; she doubts both traditions, believing that they are simply legends. Nikephoros, a patrician...
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Diogenes (r. 1068–1071), Constantine's son Michael VII Doukas (r. 1071–1078), Michael's son and co-emperor Constantine Doukas, and finally Nikephoros...
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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...
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Constantine Diogenes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Διογένης; died 1073) was one of the sons of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes (reigned 1068–1071). He was...
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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...
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Nikephoros Palaiologos (Greek: Νικηφόρος Παλαιολόγος; died 18 October 1081) was a Byzantine general of the 11th century. Nikephoros is the first known...
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(katepano) Michael Karantenos (1088–1089), vestarch Karykes (1090–1092) Nikephoros Diogenes (before 1094), son of Romanos IV Michael (11th/12th century) John...
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1078 tried to overthrow the Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates and was defeated by Alexios Komnenos. Nikephoros is described as the most illustrious...
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According to the historian Nikephoros Bryennios, after John's death, Anna entrusted Adrianos and his younger brother Nikephoros to tutors, and gave them...
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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...
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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...
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Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor 1041-1042 (epileptic) Nikephoros Diogenes, Byzantine Emperor 1070–1071 (blinded by Alexios I Komnenos for plotting...
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par with the Caesar Nikephoros Melissenos. Despite these high honours, he became involved in the conspiracy of Nikephoros Diogenes, the son and briefly...
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