-
concrete reference to a
prōtospatharios occurs in the
Chronicle of
Theophanes the Confessor, who
records "Sergios,
prōtospatharios and stratēgos of Sicily"...
- Sico (Italian: Sicone) (died 1054) was a
Byzantine protospatharios leading troops in
Italy from
about 1052. He had a
Lombard name,
though he was a Gr****...
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Michael Protospatharios (Italian:
Michele Protospatario) was the
Byzantine catepan of
Italy from 1031 to 1033. He was sent to Bari
after his predecessor...
- of
Byzantine Emperor John
Tzimiskes (969–976). The seal
belonged to
protospatharios and
katepano of Ras
named John.
After 976, the
region was dominated...
- monk and
saint Orestes,
prōtospatharios,
attended the 869
Church council in
Constantinople Nikephoros Tzourakes,
prōtospatharios, mid-9th/10th century,...
- 1046 to 1081 ,initially as a
Byzantine v****al
holding the
title of
protospatharios, then
after 1077 as
nominally serving Pope
Gregory VII,
styled as "King...
-
seals as
taxiarches (commander of an
infantry regiment), as well as
protospatharios and
topoteretes (deputy commander) of the
Tagmata of Cappadocia, then...
-
reference to Venice's
subordinate status.
Titles like hypatos, spatharios,
protospatharios,
protosebastos and
protoproedros were
granted by the
emperor to the...
-
first appointed him
manglabites (possibly
identified with the
title protospatharios), a
soldier of the
imperial guard,
after the
Sicilian campaign. Following...
-
Constantinople in 879, and the seal of a
civil governor (the
basilikos protospatharios and
archon Ilarion) from the turn of the 10th century. The historian...
