Certainty: 2 Pechenegs ravaged Macedonia & Thrace; Bryennios (&/or Michael the akolouthos) sent to fight them Certainty: 2
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
Konstantinos IX sent the army stationed in Macedonia to the East under local generals, among them Bryennios the ethnarches. It was rumoured among the Turks that they would be annihilated by troops of the same race as those with which Alexander destroyed the Persians
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