- The
Excubitors (Latin:
excubitores or excubiti, lit. 'those out of bed', i.e. 'sentinels';
transcribed into Gr**** as ἐξκουβίτορες or ἐξκούβιτοι,...
- were
classified according to
whether they were
attached to the
guard (
excubitores and scholae), the
field armies (palatini and comitatenses) or the border...
- one
point they even
formed part of the emperor's
personal guard, the
Excubitores. However, the po****tion of
Constantinople considered the
Isaurians as...
- and the
accession of his
uncle Justin I. The scholae,
along with the
excubitores,
continued to
exist in the 7th and
early 8th centuries,
although diminished...
- wounds. He is
succeeded by
Michael II, the
commander of the
palace guard (
excubitores). Leo's
family (including his
mother and his wife Theodosia) are exiled...
- the
early centuries, the
imperial guard consisted of the
units of the
Excubitores and
Scholae Palatinae,
which by the late 7th
century had
declined to...
-
Justinian I (r. 527–565) and
commander of the
imperial bodyguard of the
excubitores in
circa 541–552.
Nothing is
known of his
early life and career, but...
- bodyguard, the
excubitores, who
tried to set upon him; his life was
saved by the
intervention of Justinian, the
nephew of the
excubitores'
commander and...
- from Thrace. He
first appears in 583, as an
officer (scribon) in the
Excubitores, the
imperial bodyguard, when he
accompanied a
Byzantine emb****y to Bayan...
-
withdrew to his
mansion at the Boraïdou quarter,
where he ****embled the
excubitores and his own
retainers (bucellarii), thus
depriving Phocas of his main...
