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 Certainty: 2
1057
Certainty: 3 Michael VI refused to grant dignities to eastern generals, who turned against him
Michael VI was very generous to the civil aristocracy at the beginning of his reign, with gifts and promotions. But when it was time for the award of dignities to the military aristocracy of Asia Minor, at Easter, he praised them grudgingly and refused their requests with contempt and severe criticism. Psellos was with him. The generals were sent away and began to turn against him. Their leaders were Isaakios Komnenos, Katakalon Kekaumenos, Michael Bourtzes, Konstantinos Doukas and Ioannes Doukas. Komnenos and Kekaumenos, who both sought the dignity of proedros, were singled out for insults as lazy and incompetent, as were the colleagues who defended them. Later Bryennios the ethnarches begged Michael VI to return the money which Theodora had confiscated from him, but Michael refused and sent him away saying that he would have to achieve something before being rewarded. Later, Hervé Phrangopoulos too asked Michael VI to be made magistros: not only was this turned down, but he was derided, mocked, and sent away. He ignored the plotting of the Roman generals and asked to return home, bid the emperor farewell, crossed to the East, and went to his house at Dagarabe. Michael should have been wiser
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