- The
rhaiktor (Medieval Gr****: ῥαίκτωρ, the ****enized form of Latin: rector) was a high-ranking
court position of the
middle Byzantine Empire. J. B. Bury...
- John the
Rhaiktor (Gr****: Ἰωάννης ὁ ῥαίκτωρ; fl. 922–947) was a
Byzantine official, who
served as the
chief minister (paradynasteuon) of the
empire in...
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Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, the two
magistroi John
Eladas and Stephen, the
rhaiktor John Lazanes, the
otherwise obscure Euthymius and Alexander's henchmen...
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lines broke. John the
Rhaiktor immediately fled
while many of his
soldiers were
killed fighting to
protect his escape. John the
Rhaiktor ultimately escaped...
- of the "special dignities" (ἀξίαι εἰδικαί,
axiai eidikai),
between the
rhaiktor, and
before the
chartoularios tou kanikleiou. His
exact duties are unclear...
- led to the
successive dismissal of his
first paradynasteuontes, John the
Rhaiktor and John Mystikos. From 925 and
until the end of his reign, the post was...
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Antioch (1030–1032). He was an
eunuch who held the
titles of
patrikios and
rhaiktor. In 1030,
Byzantine Emperor Romanos III
Argyros appointed Niketas as katepano...
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Lekapene (died ca. 966)
Romanos Lekapenos Michael Lekapenos,
magistros and
rhaiktor Romanos Lekapenos,
sebastophoros Romanos Lekapenos,
patrikios and eparchos...
- Seal of the sebastos,
rhaiktor and
megas doux
Alexios Katakourianos, "born of the Komnenoi". He is
known only from this seal....
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against the Pechenegs, as second-in-command to the
militarily inexperienced rhaiktor Nikephoros.
During this campaign, he was
seriously injured. In
circa 1055...
