- to
throw off the
tutelage of
Theoktistos and his mother, the Empress-dowager Theodora, and on 20
November 855,
Theoktistos was ********inated by
Bardas and...
- the
logothete and
eunuch Theoktistos. Most of her
advisors were, like her, iconophiles,
though some (including
Theoktistos) had been
iconoclasts up until...
-
fought for influence.
Theoktistos disliked Michael's
uncle Bardas, and
excluded him from
court politics. When
Theodora and
Theoktistos arranged the marriage...
-
Theoktistos Bryennios (Gr****: Θεόκτιστος Βρυέννιος, fl. c. 842) was a Gr****
nobleman and a
Byzantine general who
quelled a
Slavic rebellion in the Peloponnese...
- the throne. In 813,
Theoktistos was a
member of the
group of
officials which successfully advocated a war with Bulgaria.
Theoktistos accompanied the army...
-
Venerable Theoctistus/
Theoktistos of Palestine, also Abba Theoktistus/
Theoktistos (died 451), was an ****ociate of
Euthymius the Great. He was an ascetic...
- led by
Theoktistos in person, made
initial gains, but
ultimately ended in disaster.
After scoring a
victory over the
Arabs in Crete,
Theoktistos learned...
- held by the
regent Theoktistos. In 855,
Petronas and
Bardas encouraged Michael III to
seize control of the government:
Theoktistos was murdered, Theodora...
-
sidelined after Theophilos's
death by
Theodora and
Theoktistos, in 855 he
engineered Theoktistos's murder and
became the de
facto regent for his nephew...
- the
powerful logothetes and
regent Theoktistos.
Although it
succeeded in
occupying much of the island,
Theoktistos had to
abandon the army due to political...
