Manuel received Toros, blinded Theodoros Stypeiotes & was reconciled to Georgios Pyrrogeorgios
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MANUEL I (1143-1180) (1143-1160)
1159
Summary:
Dates:
1159
Georgios Pyrrogeorgios, military commander (
Georgios 17001
)
Had quarrelled with
Manuel 1
over significant issues; now he returned to imperial favour but was merely deprived of his office (:)
Kinnamos 185.1-6
Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (
Manuel 1
)
Planned an attack on
Toros 102
, but when, at
Baldwin 53
's intercession, Toros came as a suppliant to the Byzantine camp, he accepted him as a peaceful subject (:)
Kinnamos 186.11-17
Deprived
Theodoros 186
of his eyes and tongue for treacherous statements, but restored
Georgios 17001
to favour (:)
Kinnamos 184.14-185.6
Theodoros Stypeiotes, epi tou kanikleiou (
Theodoros 186
)
Was deprived of his eyes and tongue for stupid and malicious statements: prophecied that
Manuel 1
would soon die, and that Byzantium needed not a youth but a much more mature man, to rule more democratically (:)
ὡς ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ Kinnamos 184.14-185.1
Toros II, prince of Cilician Armenia (
Toros 102
)
He was to be the next target of
Manuel 1
, as he fled in deserts and the Taurus summits;
Baldwin 53
interceded for him, so he too came as a pitiful suppliant to Manuel's camp, was accepted and enrolled as a peaceful Byzantine subject (:)
Kinnamos 186.11-17