- The
katepánō (Gr****: κατεπάνω, lit. '[the one]
placed at the top' or 'the topmost') was a
senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was Latinized...
- "caput",
meaning "head". It is
considered cognate with the Gr**** word
katepánō (Ancient Gr****: κατεπάνω, lit. '[the one placed] at the top', or "the topmost")...
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Apulian rebels enlisted the
support of the
Normans and
defeated the new
katepano of
Italy at
Cannae in 1041,
Matera fell
within the
scope of
Norman incursions...
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Emperor Constantine X
Doukas (r. 1059–1067), his
brother John Doukas,
katepano and
later Caesar,
Romanos IV
Diogenes (r. 1068–1071), Constantine's son...
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general (strategos). In the late 10th and
early 11th centuries, a doux or
katepano was in
charge of
large cir****scriptions
consisting of
several smaller themata...
- patrikios,
katepano, died 1034;
married and was the
father of:
unnamed Argyros unnamed Argyre; she
married Constantine Diogenes, protospatharios,
katepano, doux...
- was
given to the
military commanders over
several themata (also
known as
katepano), and in the late 11th
century it
became used for the
governor of a thema...
- Seal of John Kastamonites,
vestes and
katepano of Mesopotamia...
- (Gr****: Σταυράκιος ὁ Πλατύς) was a
Byzantine officer who
served as the
katepano of the
Mardaites in the
Cibyrrhaeot Theme in ca. 910.
Staurakios Platys...
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large regional commands ("ducates" or "catepanates"),
under a doux or
katepano, were set up. In the East, the
three original such commands, set up by...
