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 Certainty: 2
1055
Certainty: 2 Bryennios returned from his Turkish campaign & was banished by Theodora
Bryennios the ethnarches, when informed of Konstantinos IX's death, came to Chrysopolis with his Macedonian forces. The empress Theodora accused him of retreating in a disorderly fashion, and he had his properties confiscated and was banished
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