• Rodolphe Joseph Guilland (5 March 1888 – 5 October 1981) was a French Byzantinist. Born in 1888, he completed his thesis on Nicephorus Gregoras (a biography...
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    dignity, which placed its holders "immediately after the emperor" (Rodolphe Guilland). Nevertheless, the Byzantine emperors from the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi...
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    Oaks Papers, Vol. 45: 87–96. doi:10.2307/1291694. JSTOR 1291694. Rodolphe Guilland (1948). "The Hippodrome at Byzantium". Speculum. 23 (4). Speculum...
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  • was the spouse or widow of a patrikios. Indeed, the French scholar Rodolphe Guilland points out that the title itself appears to be a compound one, with...
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  • of the post is a certain John Nomikopoulos in 1199. The historian Rodolphe Guilland however considered it very likely that the post continued to exist...
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  • They seem to have disappeared thereafter. The French Byzantinist Rodolphe Guilland suggested that they were replaced by the tzaousioi. The term itself...
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  • reign of Emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842), but some scholars (e.g. Rodolphe Guilland) derive the etymology of the eidikon department from the word idikos...
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    ISBN 978-0-87099-179-0. Bowersock & Grabar 1999, pp. 300–01. Croke 2001, p. 89. "Rodolphe Guilland, "Les Eunuques dans l'Empire Byzantin" (English)". www.well.com. Archived...
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  • Nikolaos Oikonomides suggested the latter half of the 11th century, but Rodolphe Guilland supported its continued existence until the early 13th century. By...
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    "Grand Domestic of the East/West" for the same person. The Byzantinist Rodolphe Guilland considers most of these early references either as anachronistic references...
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    Roman Empire, vol. 3 Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 2 Rodolphe Guilland, "Eunuchs in the Byzantine Empire" "The Miracle of Saint Euphemia...
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  • identical names. PmbZ, Adralestos (#20115). Guilland 1967, p. 441. PmbZ, Adralestos Diogenes (#20118). Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). "Le Domestique des Scholes"...
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  • (r. 1221–1254). His functions are unclear. The French Byzantinist Rodolphe Guilland suggested that he was in command of subordinated tzaousioi, who acted...
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    Justinian. Its exact dimensions are impossible to determine nowadays; Rodolphe Guilland suggested that it had a rectangular shape 85 m long and 60–65 m wide...
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  • hierarchy, between the prōtosebastos and the kouropalatēs. According to Rodolphe Guilland, this rise to the highest ranks of the emperor's cup-bearer, along...
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  • Palaiologos Iagaris. PLP, 7811. Ἰάγαρης, Μάρκος Παλαιολόγος. Guilland 1967, p. 489. Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). "Le Protostrator". Recherches sur les institutions...
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     406–407. Guilland 1967b, p. 454. Guilland 1967a, pp. 406. Guilland 1967a, p. 407. Guilland 1967a, pp. 407–408. Guilland 1967a, p. 408. Guilland 1967a, pp...
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    already established contact with Leo the Isaurian. French scholar Rodolphe Guilland theorized that Leo offered to become a vassal of the Caliphate, although...
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  • 2010, pp. 438–439. Kaldellis & Krallis 2012, pp. 59, 61. Guilland 1967, p. 451. Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). "Le Domestique des Scholes". Recherches sur les...
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  • importance, however, and came to combine, according to the French scholar Rodolphe Guilland, the functions of a modern interior, security and foreign minister...
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  • was highly unusual for a Byzantine officer, and the French scholar Rodolphe Guilland suggests that this was connected to his command of foreign troops...
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  • Thirteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-48071-0. Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). Recherches sur les institutions byzantines [Studies on the...
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  • or at any rate before circa 1030. His exact functions are unclear: Rodolphe Guilland considered him the successor of the epi tou eidikou as the head of...
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    The Irish historian J. B. Bury, followed by the French Byzaninist Rodolphe Guilland, considered it "not improbable" that the Imperial Fleet existed as...
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    Palace of Constantinople in Istanbul, Turkey. The French scholar Rodolphe Guilland also equated it with the emperors' private hippodrome. It lay on the...
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  • 922, when John Kourkouas held the post, but this seems too brief. Rodolphe Guilland also suggested a brief tenure sometime before 922, or perhaps after...
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    fortified assembly bases, the mitata. However, as the Byzantinist Rodolphe Guilland commented, references to a stratopedarchēs are rare before the 10th...
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     79–82. Guilland 1967, p. 544. Guilland 1967, p. 545. Guilland 1967, pp. 545–546. Guilland 1967, p. 546. Guilland 1967, pp. 546–547. Guilland 1967, p...
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  • Serbian court. Nothing further is heard of him. Guilland (1959), p. 62 PLP 21521 Guilland, Rodolphe (1959). "Recherches sur l'histoire administrative...
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  • effectively foreign minister), the latter in 866–867 according to Rodolphe Guilland. After Theoktistos's fall in 855, engineered by Theodora's brother...
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