Certainty: 2 Pechenegs ravaged Macedonia & Thrace; Bryennios (&/or Michael the akolouthos) sent to fight them
With the Pechenegs ravaging Macedonia and Thrace, Konstantinos IX joined his Frankish and Varangian allies to 20,000 horse-archers whom he summoned from Telouch, the Black Mountain and Karkaros. He appointed commanders under Bryennios, whom he made ethnarches, and sent him against the Pecheneg raids, to join Michael the akolouthos, whom he instructed to avoid a major battle
Certainty: 2 Bryennios & Michael akolouthos won skirmishes, then massacred Pecheneg army at Charioupolis Certainty: 2
1054
Certainty: 2 Macedonian armies & generals, including Bryennios, sent against Turks by Konstantinos IX Certainty: 2
1055
Certainty: 2 Bryennios returned from his Turkish campaign & was banished by Theodora Certainty: 2
1057
Certainty: 3 Michael VI refused to grant dignities to eastern generals, who turned against him Certainty: 3
Certainty: 2 Bryennios recalled from exile & sent once more against Turks Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Bryennios joined rebel generals against Michael VI Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Bryennios arrested & blinded by loyal generals in squabble over soldiers' pay Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 The rebel generals, seeing fate of Bryennios, gathered at Kastamon, home of Isaakios Komnenos Certainty: 2