- 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...
- the throne. In 813,
Theoktistos was a
member of the
group of
officials which successfully advocated a war with Bulgaria.
Theoktistos accompanied the army...
-
Theoktistos Bryennios (Gr****: Θεόκτιστος Βρυέννιος, fl. c. 842) was a Gr****
nobleman and a
Byzantine general who
quelled a
Slavic rebellion in the Peloponnese...
-
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...
- held by the
regent Theoktistos. In 855,
Petronas and
Bardas encouraged Michael III to
seize control of the government:
Theoktistos was murdered, Theodora...
-
regency headed by his
mother Theodora, her
uncle Sergios, and the
minister Theoktistos. The
empress had
iconodule sympathies and
deposed Patriarch John VII...
- led by
Theoktistos in person, made
initial gains, but
ultimately ended in disaster.
After scoring a
victory over the
Arabs in Crete,
Theoktistos learned...
-
launched a
campaign that took most of the
island back in 842 and 843
under Theoktistos.
Further Byzantine campaigns in 911 and 949 failed. In 960–61, Nikephoros...
-
regency headed by his
mother Theodora, her
uncle Sergios, and the
minister Theoktistos. The
empress had
iconodule sympathies and
deposed the patriarch, John...
