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 Certainty: 3
Certainty: 2 Bryennios recalled from exile & sent once more against Turks
Bryennios the ethnarches was recalled from exile by Michael VI, appointed chief commander of the army of Macedonia and governor of the Cappadocians, and was sent against the Turks of Samouch
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