- The
Hikanatoi (Gr****: Ἱκανάτοι, lit. 'The Able Ones'),
sometimes Latinized as Hicanati, were one of the
Byzantine tagmata, the
elite guard units based...
-
Basil I
discovered and
punished a
conspiracy by the
domestic of the
Hikanatoi John
Kourkouas and many
other officials. In this conspiracy, Leo VI was...
- camp,
relaying the Emperor's orders, and
guarding prisoners of war. the
Hikanatoi (Gr. Ἱκανάτοι, "the Able Ones"),
established by
Emperor Nikephoros I (r...
-
appointed nominal commander of the new
corps of
imperial guards, the
Hikanatoi. When he was fourteen,
Emperor Leo V the
Armenian had
Niketas forcibly...
- to the
civilian bureaucracy. John
Kourkouas (9th c.),
Domestic of the
Hikanatoi regiment and
conspirator against Basil I John
Kourkouas (10th c.), grandson...
- Hikanatissēs), a name
perhaps derived from the
imperial tagma of the
Hikanatoi. The gate
marked the
eastern end of the
Amalfitan quarter of the city...
-
Acheloos in 917. His
father Maroules had been
Domestic of the
tagma of the
Hikanatoi. John
Skylitzes describes him as a
valiant and
distinguished warrior....
- camp,
relaying the Emperor's orders, and
guarding prisoners of war. the
Hikanatoi (Gr. Ἱκανάτοι, "the Able Ones"),
established by
Emperor Nicephorus I in...
-
modern sources name
Nikephoros I instead), and
became domestic of the
Hikanatoi under Nikephoros. He was
taken captive at the
Battle of Pliska, becoming...
- had been
commander (domestikos) of the
elite regiment (tagma) of the
Hikanatoi.
Sometime before 975, his
province was
extended and he was also given...
