- The
spatharii or
spatharioi (singular: Latin: spatharius; Gr****: σπαθάριος,
literally "spatha-bearer") were a
class of Late
Roman imperial bodyguards in...
-
imperial guards established under the
Byzantine emperor Leo I the
Thracian Spatharioi,
Byzantine palace guards in the 5th-8th
centuries Tagmata,
elite Byzantine...
- name signifies, it
originally was the
title borne by the
leader of the
spatharioi ("swordbearers," the Emperor's bodyguards). For instance, in the 6th century...
- spatharios",
indicates its
original role as
leader of the
order (taxis) of the
spatharioi, the
imperial bodyguards, was
already attested in the 6th century. Probably...
-
given to the
colonel of the
bodyguards of the
emperor of
Constantinople (
Spatharioi); but
which afterwards became also a high
court title, or was ****ociated...
-
Emperor Nikephoros I (r. 802–811).
Alongside Thomas were two
other young spatharioi in Bardanes's retinue, who
formed a
fraternal ****ociation: Leo the Armenian...
- "Walls". The
domestics were
originally of
strikingly low
court rank (mere
spatharioi, 'sword-bearers'), but they
gradually rose to importance:
while in the...
-
staff included "kandidatoi of the Hippodrome",
basilikoi mandatores and
spatharioi, the
latter of whom
sometimes appear to parti****te in
military actions...
-
amount of late
Antique terminology and
titulature that survived: the
spatharioi and
optimatoi date from the 6th century,
while the exkoubitai, the praitorion...
