-
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****...
-
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,...
- (888–891)
Symbatikos Protospatharios (891–892)
Georgios Patrikios (892–894)
Barsakios (894–895)
Melissenos (899–905)
Ioannikios Protospatharios (911) Nicholas...
- was a mid-level
court title.
Other variants deriving from it were
protospatharios,
spatharokandidatos and spatharokoubikoularios, the
latter reserved...
-
apparition in
their petroglyphs. The Italo-Byzantine
chronicle of
Lupus the
Protospatharios mentions that a "comet-star"
appeared in the sky in the year 1067 (the...
- 1046 to 1081
initially as a
Byzantine v****al
holding the
title of
protospatharios, then
after 1077 as
nominally serving Pope
Gregory VII,
addressed as...
-
large part of the
upper officialdom;
every official from the rank of
protospatharios (literally "first sword-bearer";
originally the head of the Emperor's...
