(Ioannes) Bryennios the patrikios, father of the kaisar M XI / E XII
Βρυέννιος ὁ πατρίκιος (Anonymus 61)
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Description
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A hot-tempered and brave boy, he had just left childhood
ἄρτι τὴν παιδικὴν ἡλικίαν ὑπερελάσας καὶ μειράκιον ὢν θυμοειδὲς καὶ γενναῖον. Bryennios 229.13-14
Dignity/Office
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Doux of Dyrrachion
δουκὶ Δυρραχίου. Theophylaktos of Ohrid, Letters 521.1
Patrikios
πατρίκιος. Bryennios 229.13
Education
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Second Name
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Bryennios
Βρυεννίῳ. Theophylaktos of Ohrid, Letters 453.1, 521.1
Βρυέννιος. Bryennios 229.13
Kinship
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father of son-in-law of Alexios I (i.e.
Nikephoros 117
)
τῷ συμπενθέρῳ. Theophylaktos of Ohrid, Letters 453.1
grandson of
Anna 64
(τὴν μάμμην). Bryennios 281.5
son of
Nikephoros 62
υἱός. Bryennios 229.13
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Location
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Dyrrachion
served as doux of Dyrrachion Δυρραχίου. Theophylaktos of Ohrid, Letters 521.1
Traianoupolis (Thrace)
approached with his friends (
Anonymus 5020
,
Basileios 61
) and climbed up the walls of Traianoupolis (Thrace) Τραϊανουπόλεως. Bryennios 227.18, 229.14-24
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Eunuchs
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Uncertain Ident
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